We can fill our storefronts and add to our already vibrant small business community by maintaining all of the qualities that make our town great, while also planning ways to attract young talent to our town. My experience includes evaluating our governor's signature Real Jobs Rhode Island Workforce Development Plan, where I learned a great deal about economic development and strategies for attracting skilled labor. With those insights I’ll engage our local business community for ways to bring more young professionals and high skilled workers to our town. Economic development will require keeping housing affordable, finding creative ways to integrate emerging economic sectors into our long-term economic plan, delivering high quality education through our schools, and envisioning infrastructure that eases our town's transportation burden. 

We owe it to our seniors, who have passed on a high quality of life to us, to make Bristol an exceptional and safe place for aging. That means addressing the challenges faced by our seniors who find the activities of daily living increasingly difficult. For our seniors facing transportation challenges we should develop a public-private partnership or create volunteer opportunities that will meet those needs. We also need to develop a strategy for getting critical information to our homebound, and sometimes isolated, seniors who are lacking in digital literacy. Finally, because difficult weather is disproportionately borne by our seniors, I will continue advocating for a comprehensive plan to deal with extended power outages resulting from increasingly violent weather.