Mt Oliver Council Member

Issues

• Administrative

  • Increase outreach to residents and decrease barriers to accessing and involvement with council 

  • Increase diversity in Mt Oliver government and staff

    • First openly Queer representative in Mt Oliver

    • Create culture of safety to improve participation in meetings and borough events

  • Promote information sharing about Mt Oliver activites, council meetings/votes (check my Facebook for more info) 

  • Ensure accountable government spending

• Businesses

  • Recruit and retain business that promote health and wellbeing of Mt Oliver residents

  • Continue work with Hilltop Alliance

  • Strengthen Mt Oliver Area Business Owner's Association and promote gatherings in sober spaces

  • Maintain current services without property tax increases

• Human Rights

  • Advocate for disability rights

    • Sidewalk access

  • Increase minority representation in Mt Oliver governement and staff 

  • Increase access to social services

    • Coordinated first naloxone distribution/overdose fair in Mt Oliver with ACHD (resumes in spring 2024) 

• Policing

  • The mayor directly oversees the police.  I have limited ability to influence the police but will work on matinining working relationships.

  • Increase training to promote safe communications and physical searches and correct use of naloxone (Narcan) to revere opiate overdoses

    • Connected officers with a 1 year paid training to improve communication skills and safety working  with people that are intoxicated and/or have mental illness. Train them in safe naloxone use (They are our first responders!)

      • From 2016-2020 Mt. Oliver had the highest rate of accidental overdoses in Allegheny County(1)

1. The Allegheny County Department of Human Services & the Allegheny County Health Department. (2021). Accidental Overdose Deaths in Allegheny County, January 2016-June 2020. Retrieved from www.alleghenycountyanalytics.us