02/22/2025
Today, I wanted to go even more in depth into some of the goals I have for Gloucester Township. This will be in two parts at least, and this is part 1. The next parts should come out in the following days.
1. I would like to do an evaluation of our tax, fine, and traffic ticket yearly revenue. Identify where all of those funds are going. And redirect any funds going to non-helpful places and projects to go to more helpful places and projects. These would be helping to improve our schools, the creation of a homeless shelter within our township, the repairing of our sidewalks (especially on the Black Horse Pike), building of new sidewalks and crosswalks, and other miscellaneous projects to help improve our township.
2. Once all of our funds are redirected or reaffirmed in their locations, I would look towards the hopefull possibility of either capping, or lowing the taxes in our township. This would be to further help the people of our great township be able to keep more of their hard earned money, or at least, be certain that it is going to causes which still benefit them and their fellow citizens of Gloucester Township.
3. Next, our goal will be to, if the global political climate seems fitting, build several nuclear bunkers throughout the township so that, in the case of a war which we are involved in, we could all feel a bit safer knowing that in that case, we will all have somewhere safe to go. And although quite grim of a goal, I believe that it is the duty of leaders to protect their constituents, and this is simply an unfortunate, but possibly necessary extension of that.
4. Now to the less grim goals, my goal will be to personally help fund the beautifying and development of our downtown, and our Blackwood Lake. This would include mainly privately funded developments, by me and others, to not draw from the taxes of our citizens, mixed with an amount of public development. Though all non-residential private development would need to be, at least in part, publicly accessible and free. More specifically, this would include rebuilding many of the original buildings of Downtown Blackwood, in order to keep and enhance its charm, and build additional buildings, which would be designed in order to be cohesive with the style of Blackwood. Additionally, this would include the draining, cleaning, dredging, and developing of the Blackwood Lake, in order to make it a publicly accessible lake, which could be used for swimming, fishing, boating, and vacationing to.
5. Moving on, it would also be my goal to ensure the safety and security of the LGBTQ+ students of our township and in our public schools. This would be in the case of persecution by the current presidential administration. Furthermore, it would also be my goal to help to personally fund the schools in part, and for LGBTQ+ programs in and out of school if government funding is pulled. And I want everyone to know, I will fight to the very end to ensure our schools will have adequate funding, and to ensure that all Q***r students and people will have a safe place within our township, no matter what our current administration may try to do.