tom understands leadership.

Tom’s main priorities are:

  1. Citizen Representation

  2. Public Safety

  3. Infrastructure Investment

  4. Support for Seniors

  5. Fiscal Responsibility

Tom’s Plan for Amarillo:

Spending time with citizens of Amarillo

As a retired business leader, Tom has the time to work with citizens from across the city and the experience needed to get things done right. Tom spends 40-50 hours a week working in areas of all of Amarillo’s neighborhoods. Our city charter has the citizens at the top, and Tom knows it’s time to act like it.

Bringing Common Sense to City Hall

Politicians often lose sight of common sense and get wrapped up in their own agendas. It’s time to treat our city like a business and bring common sense back to City Hall.

Balance the budget

Adopt a prudent spending strategy, implement conservative budgets, build safety net reserves, and leverage federal funding opportunities.

Explore options to lower property taxes while improving community services.

Fixing the streets

City streets are one of the few areas where government should have a role to play. It’s a vital part of our local infrastructure used by everyone in our city. As such, Tom will prioritize our streets.

Amarillo Animal Shelter

Despite working towards the same goal, our city animal shelter and local rescue organizations too often find themselves at odds. Tom will work to ensure the city has the best relationship it can with local animal rescue organizations.

Taking care of city employees

As with any other business, the city’s employees are some of our local government’s most valuable resources. When we get the most out of them, we will all benefit. In particular, Tom will work with the Amarillo Police Department and Amarillo Fire Department to keep our city safe.

Maintain parks without raising taxes

As with our city streets, one of the core areas the city should be taking care of is it’s city parks. Tom will work to prioritize our city parks to avoid costly property tax increases.

Create more opportunities for investment

There’s too much red tape for citizens looking to invest in Amarillo. We need to get government out of the way. Our permitting and zoning processes need serious work to turn things around.

Take a hard look at the City Charter

Since our City Charter went into effect in 1913, our city’s legislative body has been elected at-large. Things in Amarillo look a lot different now than they did back then. We need to review this annually and make appropriate changes. It needs to be a living doc instead of a stagnant document that does nothing.

Clean up the city

One more piece of infrastructure that needs to be reprioritized is keeping our city clean. We need to be proud of our city again.