Top Challenges

I am committed to ensuring that the citizens of Steamboat Springs have a direct voice in the decisions that shape our future. My priority is to ensure that affordable housing truly serves the working individuals and families of Steamboat. I am also a firm believer in safeguarding personal property rights. I believe in preserving and expanding our parks, trail systems, and protecting the Yampa River for future generations. This is the time to be realistic and not idealistic. We are all passionate about all the things that are important to us, but in order to accomplish big things we need to take a birds eye perspective and stretch it out over a long period of time.

Steamboat Springs and Routt County are incredible places to live and work, and it’s a privilege to serve this community. Together, we can tackle the challenges ahead and build a future that reflects the values and aspirations of all who call Steamboat home. Steamboat needs leaders who will listen, bring practical experience, and insist on accountability. I believe in a better way forward, and I’m ready to get to work. I ask for your support as we work to preserve what makes Steamboat special while thoughtfully guiding its growth.

Idealism vs. Realism in City Leadership

Idealism has its place. It shines a spotlight on issues, calls them urgent, even a crisis, and pushes people to want quick solutions. But urgency can lead to rushed decisions, and too often, large sums of money and resources are spent without truly solving the problem—helping a few, while much of the effort becomes collateral damage or gets captured by opportunistic players.

Realism, on the other hand, is about problem solving with a steady hand. It means stepping back, looking at the bigger picture, and identifying exactly who needs help and what effective solutions look like. Realism ensures resources go to the families and individuals who are building their futures here, not just to whoever happens to be in the right place at the right time.

Affordable Housing and Leadership Priorities

Brown Ranch Vision

• I fully support affordable housing but it must be done with accountability.

• I’m running for City Council to bring fiscal transparency, effective housing solutions, and development that values Steamboat’s character.

• Teachers, nurses, firefighters, city employees, individuals and working families deserve the chance to live here.

• Simply building units without oversight doesn’t ensure housing goes to the people we intend to help.

• Projects handed to outside managers with no transparency fail our community and the housing residents.

• I’m calling for a targeted approach. Taxpayer dollars must be used responsibly and directly support the very individuals and families they are intended for.

• Fiscal responsibility means every dollar supports workers and families building lives here.

• Transparency and savvy planning can deliver housing that is truly affordable and sustainable at a rate that fulfills demand.

• I oppose taxation without representation and will hold housing authorities accountable.

• Brown Ranch is an incredible opportunity! It is imperative this process is done with realistic timelines and commercial components, and benefit nearby neighborhoods and county residents.

Climate Action

I fully support reducing our carbon footprint but we need to be honest about what works and what doesn’t. Right now, a lot of ‘all-electric’ policies don’t actually cut emissions, they just move them.

If electricity still comes from coal, switching from clean burning natural gas to an electric can mean 2 times more carbon, not less.
That pollution doesn’t vanish. It gets exported to the communities with power plants, where residents often already struggle with higher asthma and health problems.

Real climate solutions should reduce total emissions, not simply move them to our neighors.

The smarter path is to clean up the grid first, more renewables, better storage, and efficient systems.

Then when electrification happens, the benefits are real, lasting, and fair to everyone. In the meantime, we grow responsibly with the cleanest evergy sources available to us while maintaining affordability.

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For example:

Ideally, housing for everyone and everyone could live where they work.

Realistically, we can provide targeted housing solutions so working individuals and families have stability. Not everyone desires to live where they work.
Ideally, high quality childcare would be perfect and free.

Realistically, we can expand support for working parents while streamlining licensing, updating zoning and even subsidizing home daycare centers so families to be part of the solution.
Ideally, we’d enjoy a zero-carbon lifestyle with all the modern perks.

Realistically, we need climate solutions that actually clean the air, protect our forests, rivers, and parks and don't just export our carbon to the communities, and neighbors in Hayden and Craig, that produce the electricity.
Ideally, endless powder days, no lift lines, bluebird days, with Rabbit ears closed.

Realistically, CDOT will work hard to keep Rabbit Ears Pass open, and we’ll be grateful for the winters we get.