Issues

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The future success of the Town depends on the Board getting information to and from our neighbors through better and more frequent communication. We’ll do that.

Developing a shared vision of the Town’s future will let us plan for the steps that it will take to get there. We’ll do that.

Celebrating the diversity of farm, rural, and neighborhood residents of the Town will have a positive impact on our quality of life today and into the future. We’ll do that.

Will you join us?

My intention is to bring a higher level of fairness into Town discussions and decisions. That means weighing how any decision might affect all Town residents, no matter where they live, and ignoring no one.

We need to elect a Board that will operate fairly and that is responsive to all residents, regardless of where they live, what they do, or what they believe.

Issues To-Do List

What are Your Priorities?

There are a lot of actions I’d like the Town Board to take, in the short and long term. To help determine our priorities, I’d like to hear from you about what your top issues are. Consider the short term into the next ten years and please let me know. What do you think is important? What do you want the Town to look like and be like over the next decade? There’s a form at the bottom of this page that you can use to let me know.

Here are some issues that I want to explore.

Planning & Budget

  • Match the Town budget to our future goals

  • Create long-term plans to maintain Town assets, equipment, and facilities

  • Leverage the Town of Oregon Comprehensive Plan to improve the lives of Town residents

  • Manage development within the Town to preserve its rural character

Infrastructure

  • Manage road repair and maintenance

  • Rethink the 24/7/365 parking restrictions

  • Evaluate Town of Oregon Recycling Center (TORC) operations, activity, and performance

  • Evaluate curbside garbage/recycling pickup operations

  • Promote bringing broadband connectivity to areas of the Town that lack accessible, reliable, and affordable high-speed internet

Quality of Life

  • Study current and future bike routes to improve overall bikeability

  • Develop green spaces, parks, ecological restorations

  • Strengthen relationships with Oregon Senior Center, Oregon Library, and related to other joint ventures with other municipalities

Safety

  • Analyze road speed limits and traffic conditions

  • Strengthen relationships with Belleville, Brooklyn, and Oregon Area Fire/EMS Districts, Dane County Sheriff’s Office

Community

  • Move forward with other municipalities on projects that are mutually beneficial

  • Recognize all groups as a significant parts of this community

  • Develop vision planning process with resident participation

Nature & Climate Change

  • Explore all aspects of living locally with the effects of climate change

  • Mitigate the impact of natural hazards and improving resident safety

Town Business

  • Develop the talents of Town staff and provide competitive compensation/benefits

  • Improve communication and information sharing between Town residents and the Board

  • Work to protect the survival of the Town itself

What are your top issues? Please let me know.

Would you rather use email? Send your message to me at carl@walserfortownboard.com.