Accomplishments​​​​

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• Ensuring smart and fiscally responsible management of township resources

  • General Town and Road District property tax rates have decreased every year

  • No borrowing, no debt

• Improving home values, building community

  • Founders Park - built new 17 acre park

    • Won $1,041,300 in state grants

    • Won $45,000 in private grants for Cross House restoration

    • Built Community Center

    • Built Multi-Purpose Pavilion

    • Planted 10 acres of prairie

    • Built just under 1 mile of walking paths 

    • Built Memorial Plaza 

    • Installed sprinkler system

    • Diversified recreation options

  • Cross Park

    • Stopped overdevelopment (lights for nighttime team sports play)

    • Improved baseball fields

    • Improved traffic flow for neighbors

    • Built Memorial

    • Tested water supply for Beloit Corporation environmental contaminants

    • Ventilated improved pit latrine build scheduled spring 2025

  • Kelly Myers Park

    • New playground 

  • Stone Bridge Trail improvements

    • Removed invasive species in coordination with the Natural Land Institute and the Winnebago County Forest Preserve

    • Repaired culvert

• Increasing transparency and community engagement

  • Built website

  • Publicizing meetings and agendas

  • Purchased township office sign

• Maintaining the basics

  • Township road maintenance excellence

    • Purchased desperately needed plowing and mowing equipment - two plow trucks, a bucket truck, a tractor, three plows, two mowers, and a skid steer   

  • Purchased new vehicle for the Township Assessor

  • Township cemeteries

    • Brought cemetery accounting in-house

    • Computerized cemetery records

  • Office maintenance and improvements

    • Replaced Town Hall roof

    • Remodeled front office

    • Re-vamped IT network with appropriate security, backup,and government email

    • Installed office security cameras

    • Replaced outdated computers and printers

    • Assumed responsibility for team sports scheduling

    • Reduced legal and professional fees with in-house ordinance and grant writing

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