Fiscal Responsibility
To manage the budget wisely in providing needed services without burdening the taxpayer with unnecessary expenditures through bond issues is one of our biggest challenges. For example, when the El Mirage court house needed some recommended changes. I did not feel it was wise or necessary to ask the taxpayers to be burdened with a $14-plus million courthouse when a remodeling of the existing courthouse could meet the needs at a tenth of the cost without putting an additional undue burden for 20-plus years on the taxpayers.