Beth Brooks

Infrastructure / Transportation For Beth, the core issue is simple: all city planning should prioritize current residents and the communities they have built. Neighborhood change should not be imposed in ways that undermine established residents' needs, as well as the character, stability, and zoning of existing neighborhoods. Infrastructure / Transportation We must say "NO" to overdevelopment to protect what makes Glendale Glendale. Taxes / Budget We must spend smarter, require independent review of major expenditures, conduct transparent audits, enforce competitive bidding that prioritizes the lowest qualified bids, and require voter approval for all bond measures, not just some, as we've been doing. Housing The most effective approach is to make the homes people already live in more affordable. This means providing direct rental assistance for those struggling the most with affordability -- low-income renters, especially seniors, the disabled, and veterans, by vigorously investigating fraud within our Section 8 program, which shockingly hasn't opened to new applicants in 25 years, and redirecting funds from city councilmembers' politically-driven "pet projects" and low-need, low-priority programs. Taxes / Budget It's also time to reform GWP’s pricing structure. Many residents are unaware that Glendale residential households pay higher per-kilowatt-hour rates than large commercial customers like Disney. The burden of rising costs should not fall more heavily on families than on corporations. Housing Beth wholeheartedly supports mom-and-pop landlords, who are struggling along with everyone else in Glendale from high utility rates and waste removal bills that have increased sometimes 400%! Helping one group doesn't mean punishing another. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Beth supports a comprehensive, multi-faceted street-safety initiative including a much greater police presence on the streets, speed traps, public education campaigns to change the messaging that speeding is "cool," in the same way that smoking campaigns created a negative "stigma" around cigarettes, and bringing back hands-on driver's education in high schools.