Dear Friends,
With my executive experience, strong values, and legislative experience, I will fight for the issues important to our city, which include:
- Economic Viability—by supporting local businesses and bringing living wage and Green jobs home.
- Building a Solid Foundation—New neighborhoods of affordable housing. Revitalization of downtown neighborhoods. I want to live in a community that families can afford to live in.
- City Government that Represents the People—I have a history of giving voice and representation to families and communities. My executive style is collaborative … not directive. Important decisions cannot be made without the advice and input from the community.
I would like to earn your vote. I’m your neighbor, I grew up here and I am only a phone call away.
Thank you,
Daryl
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My 5-Point Economic Plan
I am committed to preparing Bremerton for economic recovery by helping community interests work together for strong businesses and great jobs. I have a 5 point plan:
1. Keep Bremerton's small business owners successful and encourage entrepreneurship.
- Work with small businesses to ensure adequate low-cost, convenient parking for downtown merchants and their customers.
- Offer incentives to small businesses, the largest engine of job growth and innovation.
- Establish a small business liaison to facilitate communication between the city and small business owners.
- Take a personal interest in the success of each small business in Bremerton.
2. Invest in the education of our people.
- Partner with the business, labor/trades and military communities to develop a mentorship and dropout prevention program in Bremerton Schools.
- Help create more business internships for high school students, so they can gain workplace experience, learn the work ethic, and contribute directly to our economy and society.
- Work towards establishing an independent four year college in Bremerton. We are one of the most populated regions in the state which has no standing four year college to educate our people. Because of the lack of a committed higher education system, Bremerton loses the opportunity to build an economy of small businesses which could spring forth from the needs of college students.
3. Streamline government and improve accountability.
- Simplify licensing and permitting to reduce the time businesses spend on compliance, so they can focus on succeeding and creating jobs.
- Require all City Departments to review policies and procedures that could have a significant impact on business.
- Emphasize service in permitting of business and construction projects. City Departments are for the service of all taxpayers, and they exist to assist in obtaining required permits in a timely manner.
4. Support our cornerstone industries and strengthen our infrastructure.
- Focus economic development-specific infrastructure programs on creating good-paying jobs and enhanced employee training to those targeted companies.
- Assist in the preservation and expansion jobs in our core industries by understanding and addressing their unique business needs.
- Keep our transportation system moving by making safety improvements and addressing congestion choke points.
5. Help emerging technology industries thrive.
- Focus on supporting and nurturing our existing small businesses to become leaders in the production of clean technology tools.
- Lead in Green Technology. Green technology is the oil industry of the 21st Century, and Bremerton should be a regional leader. Take the initiative now, and foster technology to support wind, solar, biofuels, and other renewable energy sources.
- Help academic institutions match course offerings with real world local needs in high demand fields.
