As we approach City Council’s strategic planning retreat on April 13, I've crafted these priorities based on year-long conversations with working families, recognizing your voices and needs to advance Westminster as a vibrant community where every resident has a stable, healthy, and prosperous future. At the retreat, I will seek the support of my council colleagues to integrate these goals into our city's strategic plan. Trust that these plans are for you, shaped with you.

In March, a 5 year-old boy was hit by an SUV while crossing a crosswalk at a school on the corner of Tejon Street and Park Centre Drive in Westminster. Throughout the past several years, I have heard community concerns regarding speeding all over the city. On multiple occasions, my own wife and daughter were almost hit by speeding cars on Independence Drive, and I have heard countless accounts from families with similar concerns near school zones.

In the face of unprovoked and unjustifiable violence by Hamas and the loss of innocent lives in Israel and Gaza - which has tragically also claimed American lives - my heart is broken for every family shattered by this tragedy. As I look to others for perspective on this issue, many look to me for guidance in times like these. I’m reminded that my privilege of representing, at-large, a diverse community of 116,000 (a scope of representation larger than any CO State House district), requires that I speak up and be a voice for all my Jewish constituents and diaspora communities who feel this pain acutely.