Four Pillars for a Stronger Davie
Four Pillars. Eleven Priorities. One Davie.
Four pillars of data, goals, and actions for District 1 — drawn from town records, county health data, and independent research, and grounded in Lains's own lived experience. Every goal has a baseline, a measurable target, and a timeframe residents can hold to account.
R.I.S.E.
Representation · Inspiration · Service · Empowerment
Values guiding every pillar — a voice for the voiceless in District 1.
The Four Pillars
Public Safety
Presence, prevention, and trust between residents and the systems meant to protect them.
Healthcare & Economic Access
Every resident deserves access to care — and a real shot at economic opportunity.
Fiscal Transparency
Every dollar tracked, every decision explained — in language every resident can understand.
Smart Growth & Innovation
Building where the infrastructure already exists — and connecting every resident to it.
★ Connecting the Pillars ★
InitiativesThatConnectAllFourPillars
Davie Bridge Builders
From potential to opportunity.
Connect youth and residents with mentors, education, employment, service, scholarships, trades, certifications, and leadership opportunities.
Lifelong Learning Davie
Learning should never have an age limit.
Develop partnerships supporting early childhood literacy, youth development, adult education and workforce transitions, digital literacy, and educational and social engagement for seniors.
Community & Faith Advisory Roundtables
Create regular opportunities for diverse community and faith organizations to communicate concerns, identify shared priorities, learn how Town government works, and strengthen relationships with local government and public safety agencies. Inclusive of different faiths and communities rather than favoring any particular religion.
Youth Diversion & Opportunity Partnerships
One mistake should not automatically determine the rest of a young person’s life.
Work with county agencies, law enforcement, schools, nonprofits, families, and service providers to strengthen mentorship, intervention, and diversion opportunities for eligible young people while maintaining accountability.
Housing Resource Connection
Create an easier pathway for residents experiencing housing instability to identify existing local, county, state, nonprofit, and federal resources. The Town does not have to solve every housing problem itself to help residents find the right door.
Small Business & Workforce Connection
Strengthen connections among Davie businesses, educational institutions, workforce programs, entrepreneurs, and residents seeking employment. Economic development should also be measured by whether Davie residents have opportunities to participate in the resulting prosperity.
Community Health & Prevention Network
Use partnerships to bring health education, screenings, prevention resources, behavioral health information, senior resources, and other services closer to residents.
First Amendment & Equal Access Standard
Support viewpoint-neutral rules for public participation, peaceful assembly, and access to Town government. Residents should be free to support, criticize, question, peacefully organize, practice their faith, and petition their elected officials without different treatment because their viewpoint is unpopular.
Returning Home: Transition & Second Chance Initiative
A second chance should come with a pathway forward.
Help residents successfully transition into the next chapter of their lives — returning from military service, incarceration, a new country, or a difficult season. Connect people with second chance employment and reentry, record sealing and expungement education, veterans’ civilian transition, ESOL and new resident resources, job and career readiness, economic education, and health and stability resources. Transition → Education → Opportunity → Stability.
Strong Workers, Strong Davie
When workers succeed, families and communities have greater opportunities to succeed.
Support the rights of workers to organize and collectively bargain, competitive pay and benefits for Town employees and first responders, union and apprenticeship partnerships, workers’ rights education, workforce development, safe and respectful workplaces, and career mobility. Economic development should also be about developing our workforce and respecting the people who keep our community running. Workers → Skills → Careers → Stronger Families → Stronger Davie.
Public Safety
Know the Line — Community, Rights, and Preventing the Next Tragedy
Presence, prevention, and trust between residents and the systems meant to protect them.
Why this is personal to Lains
Public safety is personal to me. I have experienced an attempted kidnapping. I have lived through environments where violence was a reality rather than something I only saw on television. I have experienced the uncertainty that comes when you do not feel completely safe.
Living in South Florida has also taught me that danger does not always come from another person. I experienced the severe weather and flooding that affected our area in April 2023, when Davie itself modified operations because of the conditions. Preparedness before a disaster can matter just as much as the response afterward.
That is why my view of public safety is broad — supporting police, firefighters, dispatchers and emergency personnel, but also safer roads and intersections, hurricane and flood preparedness, resilient infrastructure, emergency education, and protecting our pets and animals. Making sure people are safe and taken care of is what matters to me.
Priorities — From Values to Action
Safe Streets & Intersections Initiative
Conduct data-driven reviews of high-risk intersections and corridors and prioritize improvements for motorists, pedestrians, cyclists, school zones, and Davie's equestrian community.
First Responder Recruitment, Retention & Wellness
Advocate for competitive compensation and benefits, appropriate staffing, modern equipment, professional development, physical wellness, and confidential mental health resources for Police, Fire Rescue, dispatchers, and emergency personnel.
Prevent Before the Emergency
Expand community education around emergency preparedness, firearm safety and secure storage, conflict resolution, recognizing credible threats, CPR, overdose response, and other preventive safety measures.
Flood Ready & Resilient Davie
Prioritize drainage, stormwater planning, emergency communication, neighborhood preparedness, and long-term infrastructure resilience.
Our Position
Our position: safety in District 1 has to mean more than police presence — it has to mean a community that understands the line between a concerned neighbor and armed authority, and real economic opportunity so poverty stops being a driver of crime. I lived this. I will not treat it as abstract.
Public safety is personal for Lains, not abstract. As a child he survived a failed kidnapping attempt carried out by neighbors struggling with poverty, and as a high-school freshman his classmate Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High. Those experiences taught him that the line between a concerned neighbor and an armed authority figure can turn deadly when it is not clearly understood by everyone involved. Davie's violent crime is below the national average, but property crime is the clear outlier. 'Know the Line' targets the highest-frequency zones with data-driven patrols, builds real trust between residents and the systems meant to protect them, and addresses root causes through economic opportunity.
Crime in Davie (per 1,000 residents)
The Data
Source: Davie Police Dept, FBI UCR, NeighborhoodScout, City Data
Goals & Actions — The Next Few Years
Launch 'Know the Line' training on the line between a concerned neighbor and armed authority
Baseline
Tragedies — from Trayvon Martin's death to everyday confrontations — show how quickly a concerned-neighbor/armed-authority situation turns deadly when that line isn't understood by everyone involved.
Target
A standing community training, co-designed with Davie Police, on rights, de-escalation, and the role and limits of armed authority — delivered in neighborhoods and schools.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Partner with the Davie Police Department to build a recurring 'Know the Line' training on rights, de-escalation, and the limits of armed authority for residents and neighborhood watch groups.
- ✓Bring the training into Davie schools so the next generation understands the line before a confrontation ever happens.
Reduce property crime through targeted, data-driven patrols
Baseline
Property crime at 18 per 1,000 — Davie’s clear outlier, well above its low violent crime rate.
Target
Measurable reduction in the highest-frequency zones, tracked publicly via the Crime Analysis Unit.
Timeframe
Years 1–2
- ✓Direct foot and bike patrol hours to the neighborhoods with the highest property crime concentration, using the Crime Analysis Unit’s own data to set boundaries.
- ✓Establish regular officer office hours at community centers in those zones so residents build direct relationships with assigned officers.
- ✓Publish a quarterly, plain-language property crime summary by neighborhood so residents can see whether the strategy is working.
Expand resident-facing safety technology
Baseline
Scattered third-party tools and HOA cameras with no unified town reporting layer.
Target
A town-coordinated reporting app/portal, integrated with the Crime Analysis Unit.
Timeframe
Within 18 months
- ✓Partner with HOAs and civic associations to expand license plate reader coverage, coordinating with — not duplicating — Broward Sheriff resources.
- ✓Launch a resident reporting tool that feeds directly into the town’s Crime Analysis Unit.
Address root causes of property crime through economic opportunity
Baseline
Median income falls short of a comfortable cost of living, compounding pressure in lower-income District 1 pockets.
Target
At least one new after-school or job training program in the top property-crime zones.
Timeframe
Years 1–2
- ✓Fund after-school and job training programs in the highest property crime neighborhoods, coordinated with the Health & Economic Access pillar.
- ✓Connect returning citizens and at-risk youth to the workforce pipelines in the Health & Economic Access pillar.
Healthcare & Economic Access
Healthy Davie · Davie Rising — Closing the Care Gap and Opening the Storefront
Every resident deserves access to care — and a real shot at economic opportunity.
Why this is personal to Lains
Your health should never compete with your rent. My background in health and wellness taught me that when someone is struggling financially, healthcare can become another bill competing with groceries, housing, transportation and utilities. Nobody should have to debate whether to take care of their health or pay their rent.
Early in this campaign, I received support from a Broward healthcare clinic willing to help residents navigate insurance access and available healthcare resources. If you already have insurance, that’s great. If you don’t, there may be resources available to help.
Local government does not control national inflation. What it can influence is how effectively residents and businesses are connected with local programs, housing resources and economic opportunities. Davie already participates in affordable housing, homeowner rehabilitation and homeless assistance initiatives — I want residents to actually know these resources exist and how to access them.
Priorities — From Values to Action
Healthy Davie Community Partnerships
Build partnerships with healthcare providers, nonprofits, and community organizations to connect residents with preventive healthcare, mental health and substance use resources, senior wellness, chronic disease education, telehealth, insurance assistance, and other available services.
The Town would serve as a connector rather than attempting to replace healthcare providers.
Davie Bridge Builders
Create a youth and community opportunity network connecting residents with the resources below — building a stronger school-to-opportunity pipeline and helping residents find existing opportunities that too often remain disconnected.
- •Mentorship and volunteer opportunities
- •Internships and employment
- •College and scholarship resources
- •Trade schools and apprenticeships
- •Certifications and workforce training
- •Entrepreneurship and financial literacy
- •Career exposure and leadership development
Housing Stability & Workforce Housing
Pursue responsible strategies that expand housing opportunities without abandoning Davie’s character — partnerships and outside funding, first-time homebuyer resources, senior aging-in-place assistance, rehabilitation of existing housing, homelessness prevention, and workforce housing in appropriate locations.
Our Position
Our position: no resident should choose between an urgent-care bill and skipping care, and honest work selling fruit on a corner should be a launchpad, not a ceiling. We already have a willing clinic partner, county funding, and small-business resources sitting unused — we just need to connect residents to them.
Davie has no public health clinic of its own — the FAU Davie campus clinic serves students only — so uninsured and underinsured residents are left choosing between an urgent-care chain bill or a drive out of town for care. The gap is real but not theoretical: the campaign has already secured an endorsement from Essential Health and Wellness Center, a Broward-based clinic willing to provide basic health care free of charge, and Broward County's Health Care Services Section funds behavioral, mental, and special-needs care for working families who earn too much for public assistance but still cannot afford basic care. At the same time, Davie's median income falls $25–40k short of comfortable living, the cost of living is ~16% above the national average, and the Town's Davie 10 rebranding markets a workforce with a large STEM-degree share — while District 1 small businesses often never hear about the FAU SBDC grants and disaster-relief funding already on the table. 'Healthy Davie' closes the care gap; 'Davie Rising' moves neighbors from the sidewalk to the storefront.
Income vs Cost of Living
Median income falls ~$25k–$40k short of comfortable living.
The Data
Source: Florida Dept of Health, Broward Health Community Needs Assessment, CDC surveillance, FL Health CHARTS, US News Best Places, Living in Davie FL, Momentum Realty, Town of Davie Economic Development, FAU SBDC
Goals & Actions — The Next Few Years
Establish Davie's first no-cost community health access point
Baseline
Davie has no public health clinic; the FAU Davie clinic serves students only, and uninsured/underinsured residents face urgent-care bills or travel out of town.
Target
A standing no-cost care access point for District 1 residents, anchored by the Essential Health and Wellness Center partnership.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Formalize the Essential Health and Wellness Center partnership so residents can receive basic care free of charge, with a referral pathway for anything beyond it.
- ✓Tap Broward County Health Care Services Section funding for behavioral health, mental health, and special-needs care for working families who earn too much for public assistance.
Expand free and low-cost screening access across every age group
Baseline
Broward’s uninsured rate is structurally higher than state/national averages; screening isn’t reaching every age.
Target
Quarterly rotating screening events in every part of District 1 — senior centers, places of worship, community centers.
Timeframe
Ongoing from Year 1
- ✓Build on the existing Essential Health and Wellness Center partnership, which already connects residents to insurance enrollment.
- ✓Rotate screening through senior centers and places of worship, not only youth and clinical spaces.
Close the insurance enrollment gap at the point of care
Baseline
Many residents who attend screenings never complete enrollment afterward.
Target
An insurance enrollment navigator present at 100% of town-sponsored screening events.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Require every town-coordinated screening event to include an on-site enrollment navigator, not a referral card.
- ✓Track and publish enrollment completion rates as part of the program’s accountability reporting.
Build a countywide respiratory health program grounded in clinical experience
Baseline
COPD and asthma remain significant, geographically clustered health burdens tied to smoking and comorbidities.
Target
A dedicated respiratory health outreach program active in District 1.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Draw on pulmonary rehabilitation program experience to design a community-based respiratory screening and education track.
- ✓Partner with the COPD Foundation's statewide advocacy work to bring proven clinical practices locally.
Launch 'Know Your Status Davie' prevention initiative
Baseline
STD/HIV rising across every age group; older adults see some of the steepest U.S. increases, driven by stigma.
Target
Prevention and education reaching every age, with measurable screening gains among adults 55+.
Timeframe
Year 1; countywide by Year 2
- ✓Present PrEP access and routine STD/HIV screening as ordinary preventive healthcare for all ages.
- ✓Fund provider education so local doctors raise sexual health screening with patients of all ages.
- ✓Track reach and screening participation publicly by age group.
Connect District 1 small businesses to resources already sitting unused
Baseline
Davie 10 rebranding, FAU SBDC SBIR/exporting/disaster-relief funding exist, but District 1 businesses often never hear about them.
Target
An active outreach program connecting District 1 small businesses to Davie 10 rebranding and FAU SBDC resources.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Run direct outreach telling District 1 small businesses about FAU SBDC SBIR grants, exporting help, and disaster-relief funding.
- ✓Tie the Davie 10 rebranding initiative's marketing to District 1 corridors so the competitiveness story includes our neighborhoods.
Build a sidewalk-to-storefront pathway for informal vendors
Baseline
Neighbors selling goods from folding tables on sidewalks have honest work but no path to a storefront.
Target
A micro-grant and licensing pathway that moves informal vendors into licensed storefronts or covered markets.
Timeframe
Years 1–2
- ✓Create a micro-grant fund and streamlined licensing for informal sellers ready to move from a sidewalk table to a storefront or covered market.
- ✓Anchor the pathway in the small-business licensing reforms below.
Build direct job training-to-employment pipelines
Baseline
Median income falls $25k–$40k short of comfortable living; a mismatch between training and higher-paying local jobs.
Target
A formal workforce pipeline agreement with Broward College or NSU linking certificates/degrees directly to local employer hiring.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Partner with Broward College and Nova Southeastern University to build pipelines from certificate and degree programs into local employers.
- ✓Prioritize pipelines in healthcare, skilled trades, and technology support roles.
Lower the barrier to small business and entrepreneurship
Baseline
High licensing costs and process length discourage new entrants.
Target
A streamlined, lower-cost licensing process and a micro-grant fund for new small businesses in underused corridors.
Timeframe
Years 1–2
- ✓Simplify and reduce the cost of local business licensing, especially for first-time owners.
- ✓Establish a micro-grant fund for new small businesses in underused commercial corridors.
Provide direct relief on the cost side while wages catch up
Baseline
Cost of living is ~16% above the national average; wages will take years to fully catch up.
Target
A utility assistance and property tax relief fund for longtime and fixed-income residents.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Advocate for local incentives for employers who pay above the area median wage.
- ✓Establish a utility assistance and property tax relief fund for longtime and fixed-income residents.
Fiscal Transparency
Open the Books — Plain Language Answers to Where Your Tax Dollars Go
Every dollar tracked, every decision explained — in language every resident can understand.
Why this is personal to Lains
If it’s the people’s money, it should be the people’s business. Davie is a diverse community — young families, working professionals, business owners and retirees, including residents who have to make every dollar of a fixed income count.
This is not about assuming every expenditure is bad. It is about accountability. Davie’s FY2026 General Fund budget listed approximately $213.9 million in expenditures across police, fire rescue, public works, parks, housing, administration and other services. I want to build on the transparency Davie already practices and make financial information easier for everyday residents to understand.
You should not need to be an accountant to understand what your local government is doing with your money.
Priorities — From Values to Action
People's Money, People's Business
Make Town financial information easier for residents to understand through accessible budget summaries, public dashboards, project updates, and clearer explanations of major expenditures.
Results-Based Spending
Encourage major programs and initiatives to establish measurable objectives whenever practical. Before expanding spending, ask whether existing programs are working, whether partnerships or grants are available, and whether the investment addresses an identified community need.
Our Position
Our position: most of the time the rumor is wrong, but silence is exactly what feeds it. Open the books, in plain language, and residents can see exactly where their money goes — and whether the promised results arrived.
Fiscal transparency should look like a specific goal, a specific deadline, and a specific dollar impact. Davie remains a Class 7 flood insurance (CRS) community, unchanged since our last verification in 2019, and the Town is finishing a townwide flood vulnerability assessment due to the state by June 30, 2026. Improving that CRS class is a direct, measurable win that lowers resident insurance premiums with a hard number attached. Meanwhile residents constantly ask a version of the same question: where are our tax dollars actually going? Left unanswered, that question turns into rumor, and rumor turns into residents believing local politicians are pocketing tax money. 'Open the Books' answers the question in plain language and ties transparency to measurable wins residents can see in dollars.
Public Budget Engagement (FY2026)
Today: static PDFs only. Goal: a live, quarterly public spending dashboard.
The Data
Source: Town of Davie Budget & Finance Department, FY2026 budget documentation, FEMA CRS / flood vulnerability assessment
Goals & Actions — The Next Few Years
Raise Davie's FEMA CRS flood class to cut resident insurance premiums
Baseline
Davie is a Class 7 flood insurance (CRS) community, unchanged since 2019; a townwide flood vulnerability assessment is due to the state by June 30, 2026.
Target
A measurable CRS class improvement that produces a hard-dollar reduction in resident flood insurance premiums.
Timeframe
Years 1–3
- ✓Complete the townwide flood vulnerability assessment by the June 30, 2026 state deadline and use its findings to drive CRS improvement actions.
- ✓Publish the projected premium savings per CRS class step so residents see the exact dollar impact of moving off Class 7.
Launch a real-time public spending dashboard
Baseline
Static PDFs — no way to track spending against approved allocations in real time.
Target
An interactive online tracker of department spending vs. approved allocations, updated quarterly.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Work with the Finance Department to publish department-level spending data in a searchable online format.
- ✓Update the dashboard on a fixed quarterly schedule so residents always know when to expect new information.
Establish independent citizen fiscal oversight
Baseline
No standing, independent body reviewing spending outside the annual hearing cycle.
Target
A resident-staffed oversight committee with access to spending records, reporting publicly twice a year.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Create an independent, resident-staffed oversight committee with direct access to town spending records.
- ✓Require the committee to report publicly at least twice a year, independent of the standard hearing calendar.
Publish a plain-language annual spending summary
Baseline
Current budget documents are written for accountants and auditors, not residents.
Target
A one-page, non-technical annual summary issued with every formal budget ordinance.
Timeframe
Ongoing from Year 1
- ✓Require a plain-language, one-page summary with every formal budget ordinance.
- ✓Distribute it through existing channels including the Davie Update magazine and town social media.
Smart Growth & Innovation
Grow Davie Right · Rooted and Connected — Smart, Healthy Growth for a Connected Western Heritage Town
Building where the infrastructure already exists — and connecting every resident to it.
Why this is personal to Lains
My philosophy is simple: if something isn’t broken, we don’t need to spend money pretending that it is. Davie has a flavor and identity worth preserving — its western character, equestrian heritage, neighborhoods, open spaces and history distinguish this town from the communities surrounding it.
Growth should not automatically mean building more. I want residents to have a meaningful voice in what Davie becomes. If a community is telling us it does not want additional density or development in a particular area, that perspective deserves serious consideration within the legal planning process.
Innovation can be technology, but it can also mean finding a smarter way to solve an old problem. Innovation is valuable when it serves residents — not when residents are expected to adapt to innovation simply because it is new.
Priorities — From Values to Action
Keep Davie, Davie
Growth should respect Davie's western and equestrian identity, neighborhoods, infrastructure capacity, environment, traffic conditions, and resident input. Support responsible development where appropriate while protecting the characteristics that make Davie different from surrounding communities.
Davie Community Access & Civil Liberties Initiative
Strengthen residents’ connection to local government regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, age, economic circumstances, disability, political viewpoint, or background — protecting meaningful public participation, applying Town policies fairly, encouraging relationships between government and community organizations, and ensuring residents know where to go when they need assistance.
Religious institutions — including mosques, churches, synagogues, temples, and other houses of worship — should receive fair and consistent treatment under applicable zoning and permitting standards.
Our Position
Our position: pro-development, but everything has its due time — redevelop what we already have before we build new. And Davie's western heritage identity and a smarter, more connected future are not in conflict; we can keep our roots and still make life easier and more efficient for every resident.
The Town just opened 57 workforce housing units through the Saddlebridge partnership downtown, and the FY2026–2027 CDBG Action Plan is steering funds toward home rehabilitation, purchase assistance, and park and neighborhood facility upgrades in lower-income areas — with comment periods and public hearings active right now. This is a live process residents and future councilmembers can still shape. 'Grow Davie Right' is pro-development with a timer: rejuvenate the spaces sitting underused across Davie before new construction stretches our roads and resources thinner, and direct the ~2,925 new units Davie needs to existing corridors instead of paving over the last <2% of natural land. 'Rooted and Connected' builds the smart, connected layer on top: a 311-style reporting app, a modernized permitting portal, and public WiFi for the 25,000+ residents with no internet — because Davie's western heritage identity and a smarter, more connected future are not in conflict.
Home Price vs Median Income (×local income)
~100% of buildings carry flood risk; <2% of natural land remains.
The Data
Source: CommunityScale, Zillow/Redfin, ClimateCheck, Town of Davie parks records, FY2026–2027 CDBG Action Plan, BroadbandSearch, BroadbandNow, Internet Access Local, Town of Davie IT
Goals & Actions — The Next Few Years
Shape the live FY2026–2027 CDBG Action Plan toward District 1
Baseline
The CDBG Action Plan is actively steering funds to home rehabilitation, purchase assistance, and park/facility upgrades in lower-income areas; comment periods and public hearings are open right now.
Target
A documented District 1 priority set in the adopted plan for home rehab, purchase assistance, and park/facility upgrades.
Timeframe
Year 1 (live process)
- ✓Show up to every open comment period and public hearing to put District 1’s rehab, purchase-assistance, and park needs on the record before the plan is finalized.
- ✓Replicate the Saddlebridge workforce-housing model (57 units downtown) to deliver more workforce units District 1 can actually see.
Redevelop underused commercial land before touching natural or rural land
Baseline
<2% of natural land remains; aging strip malls and underused lots sit vacant across Davie.
Target
A brownfield and underused corridor redevelopment incentive program, with the first active project underway.
Timeframe
Year 1 adopt; Year 2 first project
- ✓Create remediation and permitting incentives for brownfield and underused commercial sites so they reopen before any greenfield is touched.
- ✓Require any engineering or environmental study tied to redevelopment to come from firms independent of the developers.
Direct new housing supply to existing transit and commercial corridors
Baseline
~2,925 new units needed over 5 years; housing costs already outpace median income.
Target
Updated zoning along University Drive and the I-595 corridor allowing higher density, with a measurable infill share of the 2,925-unit need.
Timeframe
Years 1–2
- ✓Reduce mandatory parking minimums and allow mixed-use, higher-density development near existing transit and job centers.
- ✓Prioritize permitting for projects that redevelop underused commercial corridors over new construction on undeveloped land.
Restrict new development in floodplains and remaining natural lands
Baseline
~100% of buildings carry flood risk; remaining natural land ties into the Everglades Aquifer.
Target
A formal, adopted restriction on new construction in floodplain, coastal hazard, and conservation areas.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Adopt firm zoning restrictions preventing new construction in identified floodplain and conservation areas.
- ✓Pursue conservation easements or acquisition for the highest-value remaining natural parcels before they are lost.
Launch a 311-style resident app for reporting issues
Baseline
No resident-facing digital services push; residents navigate phone trees and paperwork for things that should take a few taps on a phone.
Target
A town 311-style app where residents can report and track issues — potholes, code issues, public-works requests — from their phone.
Timeframe
Years 1–2
- ✓Build on the IT department's existing work to launch a 311-style reporting app for potholes, code issues, and public-works requests.
- ✓Pair it with a modernized permitting portal so residents and contractors can file and track permits online instead of on paper.
Expand public WiFi in underserved western Davie
Baseline
Fiber concentrated in central Davie; western ranch areas limited to cable or fixed wireless.
Target
Free public WiFi at parks, libraries, and community centers in western Davie.
Timeframe
Year 1
- ✓Install public WiFi access points at parks and community centers serving western Davie first.
- ✓Coordinate with the Florida Office of Broadband and regional digital alliance partners to leverage existing funding.
Close the senior digital literacy gap
Baseline
Seniors lag 15 points behind younger residents in computer and internet access.
Target
A free, ongoing digital literacy program active in at least 3 Davie community or senior centers.
Timeframe
Year 1, ongoing
- ✓Partner with the library system and senior centers to offer recurring free classes on internet use, telehealth access, and scam awareness.
- ✓Pair participation with this pillar's telehealth and screening outreach.
A Platform Built to Be Measured
Every goal includes a baseline drawn from public data, a specific achievable target, and a timeframe residents can hold accountable. Not promises without numbers — numbers residents can check against public records at any point during the term.
★ Governing Philosophy ★
From Values to Action
I do not believe every community problem requires another government program or another layer of spending. Sometimes government's role is to lead. Sometimes it is to fund. Sometimes it is to regulate fairly. Sometimes it is to convene the right people. And sometimes the most valuable thing local government can do is connect a resident with an opportunity or resource that already exists.
My goal is to build a Davie that is safer, healthier, more transparent, more connected, and prepared for the future while remaining unmistakably Davie.
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