Tara Winer’s 2022 priorities
Councilwoman Winer proposed 5 priorities for 2022 (notes for context). Not all items were included in council’s official workplan.
City staff and police recruitment, retention
Including higher salaries and retention bonuses. (The city has struggled with employee turnover. The police department has a particularly high number of vacant jobs.)
Crime reduction
More lighting in bike underpasses and on streets; more security cameras; mandatory bike registration; work on a plan to reduce/discourage repeat offending.
Housing
(Winer did not have specific policy proposals)
Nuisance abatement
Pass stronger nuisance laws (items like noise, trash, parking); shift to more patrol-based enforcement; use enforcement officers for lesser offenses rather than armed police; apply rental saturation limits (limit the number of rental properties that can be in a given neighborhood); hold landlords accountable for infractions of tenants (such as tying rental licenses to infractions); landlords upkeep rental properties; hill commercial area is safe and more welcoming.
Disaster resilience
Prioritize brush removal; make buildings more fire resistant; continue code enforcement; bury power lines; create fire buffer zone around city; stronger nuisance laws RE: fireworks; management of open spaces for fire prevention
See what Winer campaigned on here
View Winer’s 2021 financial disclosure form here
