• Look at all revenues to attract and hire more police officers, offer more recruitment bonuses and better retirement
• Increase police presence for all calls, speedier response times
• Increase funding for Neighborhood’s 1st and increase police community engagement
• Allow Hagerstown to use ShotSpotter technology for rapid deployment in high crime areas of the city
• Expand partnerships with youth violence intervention
• Propose public safety ordinances to address homelessness and drug addiction
• Promote skills based re-entry

• Attract higher income jobs with allowing data centers to build and relocate to Hagerstown, similar to neighboring counties
• Support economic incentives to reuse and repurpose blighted buildings for re-development
• Partner with employers and local colleges to recruit local talent to live and work within Hagerstown
• Support small businesses by making it easier to open a business in Hagerstown, access to city services and support
• Work with regional federal and state officials for aerospace and defense industry opportunities by relocating to Hagerstown from neighboring Loudoun County
• Support the future MARC train Brunswick Line expansion, connecting Hagerstown to DC for higher paying jobs

• Relook at traffic engineering for one-way streets
• Improve potholes, paving, and road construction throughout the city
• Propose ordinances for noise issues
• Better process 911 calls, hire more dispatchers
• Enforce code violations, ordinances already on the books
• Improve drainage ditches, water main lines

• Promote and encourage an environment that is accountable to the taxpayers in every penny spent
• Promote transparency throughout the rules process on the City Council
• Examine the City’s coffers making sure that all city services are being met, and the city is prepared to address future emergencies
• Re-examine city partnerships with local non-profit organizations, and making sure services are being adequately met

By Authority of Flaherty for Council, Marc Mignogna, Treasurer
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