04/06/2026
Yesterday marked my 5-year anniversary as your Town Manager. Iโm full of gratitude to the people of Provincetown for welcoming me here back in 2021. I have been so fortunate to work alongside the Select Board to help advance their vision and goals, work with so many talented and committed colleagues on Town staff, and to live in a community where the people are as special as its landscape and history.
Over the last 5 years, we have accomplished great things together. To tackle our housing crisis, weโve built dozens of new affordable housing units, launched Lease to Locals, converted idle Town properties into seasonal worker housing, and land banked properties for future housing development. Weโve also enacted regulations on short-term rentals and formally dedicated rooms-tax receipts into a new Housing Fund.
We built a long-needed Police Station and ushered in new leadership in the department that has strengthened our commitment to community policing.
For the first time in history, our Fire Department has firefighters, paramedics and EMTs on shift 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, transitioning from an all-volunteer department to a full-time combination Fire Department to enhance public safety for us all.
Weโve advanced critical open space projects โ not only securing more land for conservation and passive recreation but also building new shared spaces โ like Cannery Wharf Park and the reimagined and soon-to-be completed Motta Field (not to mention helping solve the pickle that is pickleball).
In infrastructure, we advanced a plan to modernize and expand our sewer system to connect the entire town by 2030 and will soon break ground on the Shank Painter Road redesign project to provide enhanced pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure on this key gateway to our town. And we are also in the midst of assessing our future water needs and planning for the future.
We completed a Coastal Resiliency Plan to help guide our work by ensuring we make the necessary investments to protect our town from the threat of climate change, rising sea levels and coastal storms.
We also continue to advance a governance philosophy that values transparency, communication, and community engagement. Weโve balanced our budgets, strengthened internal financial practices, and transitioned both the MacMillan Pier and our Airport into Enterprise funds.
None of this progress would be possible without the partnership of Town staff or the support of the residents of Provincetown. There is a lot more work to do, and I look forward to continuing our work together to ensure Provincetown remains the special place we know it to be. Itโs an honor to be in community with all of you.
