My Record
Here’s what I’ve actually gotten done.
I don’t have a list of things I hope to do someday. I have twenty years of work you can still see today — funding secured, streets safer, a neighborhood brought back from being written off.
$3.3M
Secured for Park Avenue
2012
Civilian Commendation Award
Neighborhood Investment
Real money, not a talking point
As President of the Park Avenue Neighborhood Association, I worked alongside former Congressman Jim Walsh to secure $3.3 million in federal investment through the Syracuse Neighborhood Initiative — funding that went directly into revitalizing a neighborhood that had been written off.
I also brought in grant support from the CNY Community Foundation, Honeywell, and other partners, and worked directly with the City of Syracuse and Syracuse Police Department on the public safety funding and training that earned that 2012 commendation.
Who I’ve Worked With
Real partners, real projects
Park Avenue Neighborhood Association
The organization I helped found to bring neighbors, businesses, and city partners together around one goal: making Park Avenue a place to be proud of.
Home HeadQuarters
A nonprofit housing and community development lender working across Central and Upstate New York. We partnered on projects that turned investment into real housing outcomes.
City of Syracuse: Resurgent Neighborhoods Initiative
The city’s block-level housing and business growth plan. I worked within this framework to align neighborhood investment with what Park Avenue actually needed.
Bipartisan by Practice
Every project on this page got built with people from both parties
The $3.3 million came through a Republican congressman. The commendation came from working alongside city police and Democratic city hall. As County Legislator for the 8th District, I voted with whoever had the better idea, not whoever had the right letter next to their name. That’s not a promise for Albany — it’s just how the record above actually got made.
This is what I mean by a record: not ideas I’m asking you to trust, but work you can already see, still standing, still helping people today.