Results

Key achievements while in office

• Water Subsidy

• Infrastructure and Road Development

• EMU Row House - EMU rowing course

• Support for Black Farmers

• Bee City designation

• Social Worker Support for Citizens

• Diversity Training for Employees

• Cybersecurity Training for Citizens

• Gap Money Services for Senior Citizens through “Barrier Busters”

• Green Infrastructure & Tree City Initiatives

• Through a grant, acquired recycling bins for every single family home in the township.

• We created a Special Events coordinator that works with our Recreation Department by utilizing a current employee that has brought events to our parks like the Jazz Festival and Rosie the Riveter craft show. She has scheduled a car show, working with EMU on bringing a rowing sport competition to Ford Lake.

• Hand delivered COVID test kits and masks starting in the winter of 2021 and continued to the early spring of 2022. We delivered to every single family home, every manufactured home and every apartment complex in our community.

• We hired a Social Worker, as a pilot in 2022 and full time employee in 2023 as our Community Resource Specialist. She assists with residents connecting to providers and services and oversees a repurposed former police substation on Holmes road that is now a Community Network Center.

• We restored a Neighborhood Coordinator position that conducts neighborhood meetings, community meetings and started our first business district meeting with business’s on Ecorse that include the Township and City. This position works hand in hand with our social worker empowering people with knowledge, connecting them to resources and having supplies available like COVID test kits, naloxone, and a medical disposal box at the community center.

• We are partnering with the City of Ann Arbor and U of M in a collaborative effort to study and test ways to eliminate the algae bloom in Ford Lake. This work will begin this summer and solving this environmental issue for our community is attainable with the right partners.

• We have to find solutions to retrofit detention/retention ponds in areas that have none, clean out the storm drain pipes and possibly en- large the storm pipes that are located in the road right of way.

• Investing in elections with new voting tabulators, higher wages for election workers, trailers for hauling the election equipment so we can continue to keep our elections locally run.

• Opening in June, the 2nd Childrens Healing Center in the State of Michigan. This is a clean safe space for cancer and other auto immune disease children and families to come together. childrenshealingcenter.org

• Aldi Grocery purchased township property and in the process of being built, opening in September of this year on Huron Street. The proceeds from the sale will be reinvested into Ecorse Corridor Street lighting and walking paths. All sales of township land will be reinvested into Michigan Avenue, Washtenaw and Holmes Road business districts.

• Successfully negotiated a five year union contract. Replaced two fire trucks in 2024.