Delivering for our Community

City, County and State

• Saved Rosemount taxpayers’ dollars by partnering with local industry to secure land for Rosemount’s new Police and Public Works Campus.

• Returned $145 million of tax-payer dollars to Dakota County (Dakota County Newsletter Fall/Winter 2023).

  • $96 million for Highway 13
  • $31 million for County Services
  • $6 million for Crisis and Recovery Center
  • $5 million for Veterans Memorial Greenway
  • $5 million for Minnesota Greenway
  • $2 million for Thompson County Park

• $26 million increase for Dakota County in Local County Aid

• $2.4 million to improve the interchange at Highway 52/County Road 42

• $2.2 million for Highway 3 roundabout at the Rosemount High School entrance

• $18 million for the Minnesota Zoo, including funding for the Tree Top Trail

• $24 million for construction improvements to the Rosemount Readiness Center

• $92 million for the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities campus chemistry teaching lab

• Named Co-Chair of the Legislative Task Force on Emergency Medical Services: “Our neighbors deserve quality emergency care when seconds count.” Legislative News and Views, December 8, 2023. My Bill led to $30 million to stabilize ambulance service, particularly in rural Minnesota and an innovatived a “sprint” program to get EMTs to the scene even quicker (HF 4738; 2024 Laws, Ch. 122). Passed with strong bipartisan support.

Helping Families and Supporting Education:

• $51 million for Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan ISD 196 over next two years
• Stabilized future education funding indexed to inflation
• Invested in reading, special education, and literacy programs
• Mental health support to hire school counselors, social workers, and nurses
• Breakfast and lunch for all students
• 5,200 new Pre-Kindergarten seats statewide
• Child Tax Credit benefitting nearly 400,000 children statewide
• New career pathway for Emergency Medical Service
• North Star Promise full scholarships to Minnesota public universities for families earning $80K or less
• Upfront pricing for events, meals, hotels, credit cards, and more
• Tax cut for Social Security and pension income
• Property tax deferrals for seniors

Healthier Living

• Capped co-pays for inhalers, Epi-Pens, and chronic medical supplies
• No co-pays on additional screening for mammograms
• $437,838 investment in Apple Valley Village Health Care Center in 2024
• 100% clean energy standard by 2040
• Investments to root out forever chemicals in drinking water and lead pipe replacement
• Green rebates on e-bike and home electrification purchases
• $9 million for Minnesota’s parks and trails

Safer Communities

• Championed the creation of a new state agency dedicated to Emergency Medical Services
• Public Safety Aid for Apple Valley: $2,464,493
• Public Safety Aid for Rosemount: $1,143,588
• Public Safety Aid for Eagan: $3,023,244
• Authored Legislation to recruit, train, and retain police, fire and EMS professionals
• Authored Legislation to invest in body armor for police, fire and EMS professionals
• Authored Legislation to mentor high school students for careers in law enforcement
• Criminal background checks on all firearm purchases
• Extreme Risk Protection Orders, or “Red Flag Laws” to reduce gun violence
• Elevated “straw” gun purchases to a felony
• Strengthened criminal consequences for identity theft
• Specifically criminalized carjacking and retail theft
• Mental Health Funding and a new 988 suicide crisis line
• Adopted safer speed limit recommendations statewide