Experience

• 24 years accounting & auditing experience
• Serving as Township Clerk since 2004
• Strong, determined voice for responsible spending
• Reported township financial improprieties to appropriate authorities for investigation.
• Successfully managed 8 township elections

Education

• Earned Bachelor’s Degree Program from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, while working full time 1979-1984
• Builders License, 2002
• Continuing Education Township Governance Academy

Background

• My husband John and I purchased our first and current home here in 1989. John is a Licensed Builder in Southeast Michigan and is a Charter Boat Captain on Lake Erie’s Western Basin.

Accomplishments

• Reduced Accounting Budget by $50,000 per year by doing accounting in Clerk’s office
• Established 3rd Precinct that  reduced long voting lines
• Accounts Receivable Developer Collection Committee
• Initiated Officers' Meetings to Promote Cooperation
• Facilitated Board-written Personnel Policy Manual
• Founder Augusta News newsletter.
• Stony Creek Watershed Steering Committee
• Introduced PDR Ordinance to keep our rural character
• Board Liaison to Farmland Preservation Board
• Founder of HOT Works, a series of Workshops by the Clerk’s office on How Our Township Works

Personal Interests

• Advanced Master Gardener Certification, April 2000
• MSU annual volunteer in soil testing program
• Canning from home grown vegetable garden

Vision

• To provide you with information and to encourage participation in public life, to determine priorities for spending and to hold your public officials accountable

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