Phil on the Issues
Protect the Tax Payer
- Hold the line on taxes by controlling non-essential spending in these tough economic times.
- Implement a “Savings Bonus Program” that rewards Township employees who find new ways to cut expenses and save tax dollars.
- Closely manage public projects to ensure they meet or come in below budget.
- Review all Township budget items to find savings.
- Vigorously pursue and implement appropriate cost saving measures recommended by the Budget Advisory Group.
Review Tax Collection practices to ensure highest compliance possible at a reasonable cost.
Protect Our Quality of Life
- Maintain our Parks and Recreation system for our families and seniors.
- Continue to support our Police, Fire and Emergency Responders to ensure the highest level of public safety.
- Oppose the Turnpike Commission’s attempts to take local homes and work with state and federal officials
for a common sense solution to the Turnpike expansion.
Major progress has been recently made, resulting in the PTC reversing course and reducing its impact
on the township and a number of our neighbors not having their properties taken.
However, we must be vigilant to ensure the proposals are properly implemented.
- Advocate for residents on important issues such as traffic, the future of
the Paoli transit center, deer over-population, and Berwyn Development proposals.
- Improving storm water conditions and reducing flooding in Tredyffrin requires three things:
- Enforcement of current zoning while ensuring storm water measures already taken actually work.
For example, there are retention basins that don’t collect water in this township. This is the easy part.
- Review of the 5 year storm water plan and the already committed funding to ensure it achieves our goals.
This will take some time but is well within reach.
- Longer term solutions that will restore water quality (storm water degrades water quality) and reducing
the damage caused by storm water require organized neighbors, committed political leaders at all levels of government, and money.
There are examples of communities generating this political will and developing the know-how to get millions of dollars year
after year to improve the quality of their waterways and while reducing storm water impact. This can be a legacy for generations to come.
Open Communications
- Improve Communications with Township residents.
- Communication is the key to Transparency.
- Residents should never be surprised by developments in the Township.
- Make better use of Public Access television (Channel 2 or 24) to communicate key issues to Township residents,
especially those who do not use the Internet. We can learn a lot from neighboring townships.
- Better coordinate township website content to provide the necessary details for issues discussed on Public Access TV
at Supervisor Meetings or one of the other 13 Commissions. Again, a little effort and no out of pocket costs.
- Provide key information to residents via neighborhood email groups. Low cost efforts can have a big impact.
- Review written notification processes. For example, the bigger the development project the bigger the required notification area.
Minimal additional costs will ensure that affected residents are better informed.
