Creating an attractive, inviting County
Ann will work to help Rockingham County thrive by striving to make it inviting, accepting, and attractive on many levels. Our county needs decent opportunities for people to support themselves and their families; a strong and successful education system; a healthy environment and citizenry, and safe communities and schools. Rockingham County needs to be safe, smart, and strong.
Create Job Opportunities
Rockingham County must be inviting for professionals, skilled workers, and new businesses. Improved employment opportunities and facilitating the training needed to be successful in those opportunities are also key to an improved economy. Economic development is complex and multidimensional. Policies to improve our economy must focus on improving employment opportunities through effective education and workforce development programs; incentives for future new manufacturing and distribution companies; provision of county-wide internet and cell access; and encouragement of small businesses, tourism, and recreation.
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Support 4 Public Education
The future of our county depends on strong and positive public education and community college systems. Quality public schools depend on many factors; adequate funding is certainly one major requirement. Making our county an inviting place for people to live and work will certainly help recruit and keep qualified and caring educators who can move to Guilford for higher pay. Schools must continue work to improve school safety and security using proven solutions. The commissioners can help these efforts through careful budgeting of available resources as well as by encouraging and creating positive and safe school environments.
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Improve Health Care Access
Access and quality of healthcare in Rockingham County are compromised by two main features, namely, those in our county who are uninsured and underinsured and the shortage of capable health care providers and systems. Commissioners can help the former by advocating for Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion would not only benefit those who would gain healthcare access, it is estimated that it would provide 43,000 NC jobs by 2020. For the later, Commissioners can help recruitment with a robust attempt to make our county the kind of place in which health care professionals wish to live and raise their families.
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Protect Our Environment
This picture shows Ann's home; she is very pleased with her solar panels. We must work to improve use of alternative energy options as well as to protect our wonderful, beautiful county from practices that will harm it. She will support practices that preserve clean air and drinking water.
She is very opposed to the Mountain Valley proposed pipeline that will cross 81 streams and rivers in North Carolina, destroy trees and habitats, take private land through the process of eminent domain if needed, and provide no fracked gas or sustained economic benefit to our county. The MORE DETAILS button links to the Good Stewards of Rockingham County website. Ann is an active member of this group. |