About Our Effort

During my 20+ years on the island, we have enjoyed being a quiet community that has maintained a relationship with our neighbors and our environment with a strong interest in retaining a feel for "Old Florida" and providing our guests with an eco-friendly island of exceptional beaches and waterways along with great access to entertainment and services.  

In recent years, our island has become significantly more popular and very visible both locally and internationally.  This attention has brought unprecedented issues and concerns to Holmes Beach.  These issues and their outcomes have demonstrated the critical need for professional and experienced leadership to respond to current and future issues.  I have responded to this call to action by humbly providing my lifelong experience in leadership and business to ensure that we don't lose this incredible paradise.  If elected to serve as your Mayor, I will provide an experienced, professional, and responsible leadership to guide our city government with the current and future issues being faced by our community of Holmes Beach.   This is what I feel is the most critical need and the most critical issue facing our community at this time.  I intend to ensure that with my leadership, our local government is seen as a viable, experienced, and professional organization that can provide options, innovation, and creative solutions to the issues facing our community now and in the future.  

Several issues and community concerns face Holmes Beach at this time.  Our campaign is currently involved with efforts, information gathering, and solutions responding to many of these issues and concerns.  Below is a short list of our positions on several of our critical issues. My pledge is to continue to protect our homeland by serving as Mayor of Holmes Beach.

- Crisis Management Planning and Post-Storm Recovery

AMI has taken an unprecedented hit from Hurricane Helene and Milton.  These hurricanes have left a damaged and unrecognizable island in its wake.  As each island government took a different stance in preparation and recovery efforts, our campaign feels that Holmes Beach demonstrated the weakest and least effective response to both storms when compared with other areas.  While each crisis is handled differently based on leadership, I feel this is an area where we are most desperate.  With trash piling up, along with inefficient and ineffective planning and execution before and after the storms, Holmes Beach in particular has deeply suffered.  As a Special Forces Officer in the Florida Army National Guard in between my time in the US Army, I have been activated over two dozen times to serve as a leader in the State of Florida's response both in recovery and recon operations and in the State Emergency Operations Center.  This background, contacts, and experience would have been invaluable during this recent time of crisis for Holmes Beach.  I am offering this experience to Holmes Beach to ensure that our emergency response and crisis management is well planned and documented to ensure a coordinated response to future major emergencies.    

- The Proposed Beachfront Parking Garage

Manatee County has proposed a beachfront parking garage along our most popular public beach.  Our campaign opposes this development as an unnecessary use of critical tax dollars that can be used on other projects throughout Manatee County.  This financial burden, along with the interruption of use of the beach during construction, as well as the countless environmental impacts of a shorefront construction of this scale makes our position of removing this proposal very likely based on early discussions with Manatee County lawmakers. 

- The Proposed Consolidation of Island Government and Services

Manatee County has ordered a report to be provided showing statistical analysis and information with an interest in consolidating our 3 island governments as well as related services.  While our campaign opposes the consolidation proposal, we do understand that certain services and cooperation can be universally supported by all 3 governments to the benefit of all residents and visitors while providing a more responsible use of taxpayer funds. Our campaign intends to work cooperatively with our neighboring governments to provide a more efficient operation going forward. 

- Stormwater Mitigation and Infrastructure Management

Historically Holmes Beach has spent countless funds on infrastructure projects and stormwater management that has created constant disruption along our roadways while still not providing a solution.  Our campaign realizes through our information gathering that several projects are necessary to maintain our current infrastructure but we feel  these ongoing and exhaustive efforts are not being appropriately executed or overseen to ensure that deadlines, results, and commitments are met.  We plan to pursue remedies for these historical and current contractual breaches while ensuring future projects are vetted and planned more appropriately to ensure modern engineering solutions are explored and long term solutions are created.  Additionally, we intend to be better stewards of taxpayer funds and ensure future efficiencies are built in based on past experience.