Our existing school board and the incumbents running on a collective ticket will have you believe that our budgets are best handled by asking Avon taxpayers to continually foot the bill for a new levy whenever they have overspent the precious tax dollars we have entrusted them with.

I will not be advocating for large unnecessary property tax levies as our current board members attempted last autumn.  

My focus? A deep forensic dive into our budget to prioritize our teachers, classrooms and the safety of our children.

Avon, why vote back in the individuals that championed that losing budget proposition this past Fall?  

Every parent’s worst nightmare is their child not returning home from school the day they were sent.

I will improve our districts security and safety protocols, practices and technologies to ensure our children and staff are as protected as possible. My plan involves the following;

• Independent Audit. An independent  audit of our security practices from a board approved qualified security expert analysis firm.
• Open Community Forum. An open community forum where the Board of Education will meet with community members, share these findings, and listen to new ideas and suggestions.
• Engage with volunteer partnerships. Like a neighborhood watch program, there are many volunteer based initiatives that partner with veterans and retired LEOs to provide an extra non-invasive layer of security. In partnership with our local police department, this entirely free and highly effective layer of security will be a valuable asset to protect our students and staff.
• Utilize AI technologies. Many communities who have experienced school violence or a mass casualty event have installed updated technologies that Avon lacks.  I am not proposing metal detectors at our entrances, but technologies like simple non-invasive AI software that detects firearms through existing security cameras.  These technologies are highly cost-effective and non-invasive, and should have been installed in our district years ago.

My experience serving in the US Army during Operation Enduring freedom is crucial to our district. My unit’s entire deployment mission was to implement and improve executing security protocols and practices for assets, installations and vulnerable personnel across the world. 

I’m a political outsider, removed and separated from the three candidates who are now running as a collective. 

It’s crucial to Avon that the Board of Education houses individual members that are not working as a partisan co-op, but instead are working in a balanced capacity to produce the best ideas through critical analysis and thoughtful debate. 

Our district needs budgetary constraint, an updated plan of safety and security, and the hiring of the right person to help us navigate the future ahead.

What our Board of Education needs is a diversity of thought and opinion, not a coalition of like-minded individuals.  

If I am not elected; the Avon school systems will be left with a single minded majority collective. This collective, left unchecked and undisputed will be free to transform Avon’s school policies, values and finances in anyway they please

This summer, the existing board of education nearly hired an interim candidate that carried with him an extremely questionable past. 

If it were not for concerned citizens and educators stepping in at the last moment, we would have been stuck with a hiring decision that my opponents were championing.

We need a fair minded individual who is apolitical in nature. 

We need a person focused on principal driven values and educational success for our children.

Please do not entrust the hiring of this important role to a Board of Education that has failed you in the past..

With a declining student enrollment, the answer for our district is not the construction of a new elementary school or athletic facility as our current board of education advocated for last fall, but the reduction, consolidation and sale of structures that are costly and underutilized.  

A vote for any of the three that are running as a collective will likely ensure that they will propose a similar initiative as they attempted last fall to voters.

Whereas a vote for me will ensure an efficiency of budget and buildings in our district’s current possession. 

I am a devoted husband of 18 years, and father to our four children. Three of which are enrolled in the Avon School System. 

Because I currently have children in our school system (unlike other candidates) I am aware of the importance of teaching our children how to understand, accept and respect  children who are different from them in a variety of ways.  

I will champion adoption of a new platform to help instill values of respect and understanding so that students of any creed, race, religion, gender, or socioeconomic background can find safety, friendship and educational success in Avon. 

Our current platform the existing board quickly and carelessly adopted without community consultation  (the “Start with Hello” program) is laden with a clear social engineering agenda, delving into radical political teachings in its documented and published content.  The current program being utilized is built on a platform of subtle (and not-so-subtle)  indoctrination of radical political agendas.

There are a plethora of options on the menu we can consider as replacements from the approved Ohio Department of Education list, and we need a more effective alternative from what we currently are working with. 

I believe that polarizing radical ideology (in all its forms and leanings) should be kept outside of our educational system. This includes religious ideology and sexual identity politics.

I think the mission of our school should be incredibly precise to focus on education for success in life.  .