35 years

2.  What experiences, motivations, and leadership styles will make you an effective Water Trustee?

college grad, political experience, water safety knowledge

3.  If elected, what would your top three priorities be?  How do they affect young people in Portland?

any and all priorities relating to water quality in Portland

4.  Please share one positive change you have seen in Portland over the last year.

the creation of the charter commission

5.  Please share one frustrating change you have seen in Portland over the last year.

6.  What competing responsibilities do you have: professionally and personally?

normal responsibilities of work and family

7.  What are your thoughts of PWD rate structures?  Do you believe in a progressive or a regressive rate structure?

progressive

8.  What is your position on residential users subsidizing industrial and commercial users?

against

9.  What do you think about the Water Trustee pushing the policy that automatically qualifies an individual for low-income water rates if they're already qualified for the CMP low-income rate?  Why?

support, because it’s fair

10.  What is your take on businesses threatening to leave Portland if water rate structures increase? 

probably empty.  would hope to avoid any cost increases

11.  One of the Water District's stated goals is to make the organization more environmentally friendly.  If elected, what steps would you take to reach this goal?

reduce toxins in the water

12.  What do you think about the Water District selling access to private companies?  What are your thoughts about letting other municipalities tap into Sebago?

against

13.  What is your position on the Water District contracting with an outside insurance company to offer services like the 2006 mailing around water line breaks?

unsure

14.  What steps would you take to reduce the discharge of wastewater into Casco Bay from our East End Sewer Plant?

unsure