Shona Sowell

Criminal Justice / Public Safety We must assess our traditional 1 officer to 1,000 residents model and ensure that it continues to hold as we grow and become a more mature and complex city. Criminal Justice / Public Safety As mayor, Public Safety will be my number one priority and goal. But to understand Public Safety, we need to understand the various parts of our public safety team. Both our Police and Fire Departments have independent and different needs. Taxes / Budget It’s time to refocus those dollars on the assets and needs Frisco has today. In doing so, we truly can look at real ways to not only decrease the tax rate, but to decrease it enough to create real relief on rising home values. Taxes / Budget We need to better understand that it is sales tax and property taxes that fund our public safety teams. We have to stop giving away the property tax and sales tax to developers and then state we cannot afford to invest in our fire and police departments. Infrastructure / Transportation It is time to take a real look at the technology we are using and understand if we have outgrown its efficiencies. Lights are not timed appropriately for the time of day causing residents to wait long periods of time for lights to turn even when no traffic is visible. Taxes / Budget It is time to work to actually provide real relief. And while projects like a performing arts facility are proposed with the idea that your tax rate “won’t go up”—most residents would prefer their actual taxes to go down. Criminal Justice / Public Safety We need to ensure that we have adequate staffing for patrol, traffic and detectives. Not just staffing that is adequate for day-to-day responsibilities, but for the events that we hold in Frisco as well. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Ublic Safety needs to be a top goal and focus of our city leadership always.