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About Me
I am a real estate broker, combat veteran, and former Chair of the Milton School Board. A resident of Chittenden County, I've spent more than a decade combining military service, civic leadership, and professional experience in Vermont’s housing market.
I served for 11 years in the Vermont Army National Guard and was awarded the Vermont Distinguished Service Medal. As an analyst, I completed multiple overseas deployments, building expertise in data analysis, risk assessment, and technical report writing.
For nearly a decade, I've worked as a licensed real estate professional, primarily serving Chittenden County. My work focuses on helping buyers put down roots in Vermont and guiding sellers through successful transitions by using market analysis, property valuation, and real estate investment strategy.
My public service experience includes four years on the Milton School Board, including two years as Chair. In that role, I helped oversee district policy development and management of public budgets. My approach to leadership is grounded in the research, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills I developed through both military service and real estate.
A father of three daughters, I live in Chittenden County and remain active in my community as a member of the Milton football coaching staff.
My District
Chittenden - Franklin District
Milton/Georgia
My Platform
Energy and Utility Costs
Escalating Education Costs
Escalating Education Costs
Ensuring that Vermonters can afford to power and heat their homes is a fundamental pillar of economic stability. However, residents are currently facing compounding financial strain from rising electric rates and impending environmental compliance costs. To keep our state livable, we must balance our long-term environmental goals with the
Ensuring that Vermonters can afford to power and heat their homes is a fundamental pillar of economic stability. However, residents are currently facing compounding financial strain from rising electric rates and impending environmental compliance costs. To keep our state livable, we must balance our long-term environmental goals with the immediate economic realities facing working families.
Our current energy market offers little relief for household budgets. As outlined in the Vermont Legislature’s 2026 Annual Energy Report, a combination of regional grid constraints, major storm recovery costs, and strict state renewable energy requirements are driving electric utility rates upward at a rapid pace. While long-term power contracts offer a minor buffer, our retail electricity costs remain stuck among the highest in the country, placing an unfair burden on local consumers and businesses alike.
Long-term utility costs face further upward pressure from upcoming environmental compliance frameworks. The Vermont Public Utility Commission (PUC) Second Checkback Report modeled the financial impacts of a potential Clean Heat Standard designed to meet the Global Warming Solutions Act. The PUC estimates that these compliance mechanisms could add an initial mandate premium of 8 to 9 cents per gallon on heating oil and propane, eventually climbing to an estimated 58 cents per gallon by 2035.
A Balanced Energy Future: Protecting our environment should not come at the expense of a family's ability to stay warm in the winter.
Escalating Education Costs
Escalating Education Costs
Escalating Education Costs
Vermont’s current economic model places an immense responsibility on our communities. Lacking a traditional, large-scale corporate economic engine, our state relies heavily on a modest and aging population to fund our essential public infrastructure. To ensure long-term stability for our schools and our neighbors, we must pursue a sustain
Vermont’s current economic model places an immense responsibility on our communities. Lacking a traditional, large-scale corporate economic engine, our state relies heavily on a modest and aging population to fund our essential public infrastructure. To ensure long-term stability for our schools and our neighbors, we must pursue a sustainable fiscal path forward.
Our public education funding system is currently the primary driver of property tax increases. The Vermont Chamber of Commerce projected an average education property tax surge of approximately 12% for the 2026 tax cycle. This sharp escalation is driven by a combination of rising school district operational expenditures and the exhaustion of the state's previous one-time tax buydowns.
The data reveals a widening gap between our educational investments and demographic realities. Over the past two decades, student enrollment across Vermont has steadily declined by over 30%. Yet, despite serving fewer students, overall public education spending continues to climb, pushing per-pupil costs to unsustainable levels.
A Sustainable Path Forward: True support for our communities means ensuring that every dollar spent directly benefits Vermont's students without placing an unmanageable burden on the families, workers, and seniors who call this state home.
Tax Burden
Escalating Education Costs
Tax Burden
Vermont families and small businesses currently shoulder one of the heaviest tax burdens in the nation. This unsustainable fiscal strain is driven by a stark demographic reality: a shrinking, aging tax base is being asked to fund the expansion of statewide infrastructure and an increasingly complex public education system. To keep Vermont
Vermont families and small businesses currently shoulder one of the heaviest tax burdens in the nation. This unsustainable fiscal strain is driven by a stark demographic reality: a shrinking, aging tax base is being asked to fund the expansion of statewide infrastructure and an increasingly complex public education system. To keep Vermont affordable, we must build a government that aligns with our economic reality, rather than overburdening our remaining workforce.
At the heart of this crisis is a broken funding model. Because Vermont relies primarily on local property taxes to fund our schools, skyrocketing operational budgets have translated directly into financial hardship for homeowners. Over a brief five-year window, average education property taxes climbed by more than 40% across the state. This rapid escalation is actively pricing young families out of the market and forcing seniors off of their fixed incomes.
To shield residents from devastating, double-digit tax spikes, state leadership recently deployed a temporary $118 million "buydown" utilizing General Fund surpluses. While this emergency measure successfully capped the immediate tax hike, it remains a short-term fix.
Masking systemic spending issues with one-time budget surpluses leaves the underlying cost drivers completely unaddressed. This short-sighted approach leaves Vermont taxpayers highly vulnerable to sharp, unpredictable increases the moment surplus revenues dry up.
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