TAMERA BOUNDS FOR CITY COUNCIL PLACE 2
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A Decade of Proven Leadership
 As your Councilwoman, I will continue to work for:

Smart Growth and Equitable Development
  • Focus on strategic planning and funding for essential  infrastructure needs. 
  • Identification  of good bones development opportunities.
  • Be inclusive of retired, single or family communities that are diversified and provide meaningful activities for all our citizens that include walk-ability, access to shopping, dining, provide work opportunities and access our parks and trail  system.
  • Be vigil towards and address weaknesses and strengths in our system to prepare as our City changes and grows.
  • Continue to facilitate and promote value based land use systems that balances a good business model, maintains good  neighborhood lifestyle design and protects property values.
Fiscal Responsibility
  • Seek solutions to continue an equitable taxation system , be vigilant towards debt service and continue to limit waste​.
  • Continue to limit and find good alternates to costly  developer incentives and abatements.
  •  Research, audit, validate matters pertaining to City budget , financial planning,  funding options, staffing, public safety and spending practices.
Strengthening Our City Integrity through Transparency and Provide for a Sense of Community
  • Continue to identify and Improve City visibility , accessibility , and communication needs as our City grows.
  • Continue to work with the City on a way to provide the line by line annual draft budget online  so it is accessible to citizens for their understanding  and feedback  during public hearings.​​
  • Strengthen our HOAs and Community Leadership to provide  a base of support for Mansfield Citizens  to have a voice.
My ongoing work for Mansfield and our Citizens
 As your Zoning Commissioner-
  •  I  invested over 19 hours in continuing education that include courses sponsored by NCTCOG taught by Attorneys, Terrance Welch &Robert Brown, for the basics of Planning and Zoning in Texas; Took several hrs continuing education through American Planning Association to better understand city analytics, financial health and the economy.  
  • I worked with other commissioners, staff and council as a team  to research, scrutinize and discuss  zoning applications that  come before us to  push  quality construction, look at safety concerns, provide acceptable density; accurate site plans and projects that are good bones development to  compliment and sustain our  growing community. 
  • Mansfield is about 73% developed. Over the last several years, I have worked with staff and council to update the zoning ordinances  to reflect a higher quality of design . I worked with staff for updating the zoning map to accurately reflect our landuse currently in place, our percentages of development  and what we have left to develop. This design will provide data to accurately reflect what has been developed , identify our opportunities and guide us in making good informed decisions as Mansfield develops out.
  • Our  Land Use Plan hasn't been updated in years. It is on target for  revision, updating and will serve as a good foundation for zoning, subdivision regulations, guide good decision making about growth , development, and landuse , while preserving our history and natural resources.
 
As a Member of the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee-
  • I worked with other members of this committee and staff to question , scrub or update  our water, sewage and roads related impact fees to make sure we are getting sufficient dollars from new development that will pay for necessary  infrastructure needs and related safety services. These fees are reviewed every 6 months for  efficiencies.

 As a Member of the  Construction Codes Board of Adjustments and Appeals- ​​​​
  • I was there at this Board's inception.
  • During my tenure, I worked with other board members to set guidelines for the Mansfield Construction Codes Board. This Board  set standards to maintain our property values , protect the safety and welfare of our citizens through  enforcement of applicable codes related to  the upkeep and design of property , buildings and other structures within our City.

As a Member of Mansfield Tree Board-
  • I worked to  set good policy  with preserving our trees in Mansfield 

 
Fiscally Responsible and limit waste
While City Council's role is to make key decisions for the community’s standard of living… it is imperative that we  include what  local residents need and want, what they are willing and able to pay for, and what services they can expect  to receive for their tax dollars.
  • The City continues to grow and we have worked to bring retail, commercial and industrial to this area. There has been much talk about homestead exemptions or providing other means of funding such as exploring a sales tax redistribution. I have participated in some of these talks and proposals. I made comments and worked with individual council members to brainstorm renovations to our current budget.  And we finally arrived there this year.  I will make sure these talks continue with City staff and  council to raise the bar for taxpayer relief.
  • Of the functions performed by City Council, budgeting is the most important focus to maintain a fiscally responsible vision of growth and prosperity for our community. This means constantly re-evaluating our debt service and balancing costs  with planning out for  the essential long term needs such as roads, bridges and equipment ... infrastructure.
  • Mansfield needs to revisit our land use policy .​ This means updating  it to be in line with what our current land use reflects. And have a plan to make good use of our  vacant land we have left.
  • Much has been done to streamline many of the City's operations that reduces waste such as printing and copying paper. Using emails with documents that can be received and read on IPads and computers at meetings. Updating the Website to include information and accessibility to documents and publications  rather than using the cost of postage. We still have opportunity and need to continue this effort by  exploring the use of  consolidating staff meetings, perhaps reduce drive time by having more virtual meetings that can be done from afar. 
  • We still need to fine tune our website for easier navigation to documents,  provide more accessible documents to include line by line  draft budget info during public hearings and provide for more citizen feedback surveys to provide useful input to various city depts.
 



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