CR: My 20 years in the military has me grounded in a philosophy of selfless service. I want to continue to serve, just in a different capacity. I want to represent the best interests of the residents of Plano by serving on the City Council. Additionally, Plano needs leadership they can trust and who believes in transparency.

CR: I am an experienced leader with more than 20 years of active military service. As an officer and platoon leader in the Army deployed to Afghanistan, I was in charge of base security and subsequently responsible for the safety and security of more than 500 soldiers and local Afghan nationals. I was also responsible for managing $18 million of taxpayer funded government property without incident of fraud, waste or abuse. These skills are absolutely critical when dealing with city budgets, managing infrastructure and prioritizing issues according to importance. My time as an Army officer has undoubtedly prepared me to serve you on Plano City Council, and I will do so putting your needs above mine.

CR: If elected to Plano City Council my top priorities will be:

CR: Another one of my priorities is to make sure that we maintain and repair our aging roads and infrastructure. The residents of Plano have come to enjoy a certain quality of life, which must be maintained. I will support innovative solutions such as retiming our traffic lights and new asphalt overlays.

CR: My family and I decided to make Plano home, as we were attracted by the suburban lifestyle and high quality of life. Plano is continually ranked as one of the best places to live in our country, which means we continue to attract new businesses and homeowners. I will support a new comprehensive plan that encourages smaller homes for our seniors and new businesses.

CR: I am the husband to a wonderful woman, Larci, who is my rock and confidant and who I have just celebrated 20 years of marriage with. We have two beautiful children, Hannah and Braden. We love spending time in downtown Plano and outside in the green spaces and walking on the trails. I am a middle school social studies teacher.

DS: I seek a return to the Plano City Council primarily to improve communications between the factions that have developed in recent years and restore the City Council to a collaborative body that will work together to make Plano an even better place. I pledge to be a council member for all Plano.

DS: 31 years of civic engagement here in Plano, including six years on the City Council. I served on the city finance committee during all of my years on council and rotated through virtually every other committee and liaison role.

Prior background includes an engineering degree from Vanderbilt University, service in United States Air Force civil engineering units, and engineering and middle management work for Texas Instruments and EDS. At EDS, my leadership skills were recognized not only in my management assignments but also as an instructor in the company’s internal leadership development program.

In addition, I have been a neighborhood advocate before, during and after my City Council service. I have been a homeowner association president as well as an officer of the Plano Homeowners Council and Texas Neighborhoods Together. For Texas Neighborhoods Together, I served as a lobbyist in Austin during eight legislative sessions.

Outside council service, I have served on various city committees. Recent examples include Love Where You Live, the Housing Plan Advisory Committee and the 2020 Census Complete Count Committee, serving as the co-chair of its Community Outreach Subcommittee.

See www.davidforallplano.com/meet-david for a full description of the background and experience I bring to the office.

DS: 1. Restore collaborative work by the City Council

2. Eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic and restore full economic activity

3. Reinstate responsible financial planning

4. Plan new housing of the right types in the right places

5. Address and move toward eliminating the racial injustice endemic in our society.

6. Increase funding for police and public safety

See www.davidforallplano.com/platform for all full description of these priorities and how they will be accomplished.

DS: We just experienced a harsh lesson about our fragile electricity and water infrastructure. We should work with the cities to our north and others to explore the feasibility of leaving the ERCOT electricity grid and connecting across the Oklahoma border to a more reliable national grid. We should work with other North Texas Municipal Water District cities to ensure better winterization of our water supply.

Regarding transportation infrastructure, we should continue incremental improvements in our road system and signalization. To reduce automobile traffic, we should get more value out of the dollars we send to Dallas Area Rapid Transit and work toward extending public transit to the cities to our north who are currently not part of DART.

DS: Plano has a jobs-housing imbalance. We have recently added far more jobs than housing. Results include more commuter traffic and later business relocation to the other cities where employees can find housing.

We also do not have enough of the right types of housing, particularly for our seniors and people with disabilities.

Opportunities to positively address all this comes from the confluence of the current comprehensive plan update and the development or redevelopment of key properties. In particular, commercial development and redevelopment can be planned to help reduce housing imbalances and commuter traffic.

DS: Plano is at a critical juncture. We need the return of an experienced voice not aligned with a political faction and willing to serve all Plano citizens and stakeholders.