There's a New Day Ahead for King County!

Rob brings the experience, know-how and proven results we need.

Rob believes more in results than self-promoting accolades. He has spent his lifetime in customer-facing roles. Three decades of business management experience, leading teams, implementing plans, finding solutions, balancing budgets, and bringing community together.

For more than a decade, Rob has worked tirelessly for his community initiatives on jobs, housing and assisting small business. He's led efforts to improve public safety. He's responsibly managed budgets for organizations. He found resources to increase public safety with existing budgets.

As our next District 3 councilmember, Rob will bring a new customer-driven policy approach, include diverse voices, and ensure we have an opportunity to preserve and enhance what makes us a unique part of King County that can be preserved for generations to come.

Public Safety will be made the first funding priority, rather than the last. He will increase the number of beds in our jails. Restore social services within our jails for drug, alcohol, and mental health treatment. He will stop the effort to house youth and adults serving time in our neighborhoods. He will restore Sheriff's funding in unincorporated King County.

Accountability starts with a customer-service mindset in agencies and his own district staff. The role of councilmembers is to ensure that constituent concerns are heard and acted on. That leadership starts with your elected official.

Fiscal Responsibility is a critical need. Rob believes we already pay enough in taxes. We need leaders willing to make tough choices, and spend money on a priority basis for our most critical rather than a feel-good approach.

Our Housing Crisis is well documented. Rob has devoted more than a decade in addressing this with elected officials locally and at the County level. He is the recognized leader in the housing discussion in Snoqualmie Valley. He has organized and brought together a wide variety of voices. His work is evident in the progress made in the cities of North Bend and Snoqualmie. There is much that remains to be done to allow greater local determination. Rob is determined to find a better way forward.

Support for Small Businesses and Farmers as Rob understands this incredibly well in his role as a community banker. For the past 16 years, he has listened to the concerns of business owners and understands their challenges especially when public policy is out of step in creating a conducive place to do business.

Emergency Preparedness, Rob will ensure our mostly rural communities have the resources and preparation to prevent and respond to critical incidents.

Environmental Stewardship is a delicate balance of preserving our water resources, recycling efforts, natural resources, and quality of life while accommodating housing needs for our local workforce. Rob personally organized a recycling event that prevented 4 tons of electronic waste and 600 pounds of Styrofoam from going into the county landfill that is projected to run out of room by 2040. A second effort resulted in nearly one ton of holiday lights from the same fate. Rob puts ideas into action.

Transportation including our roads and highway systems, local public buses, and lessening our environmental impact. Rob was an early leader on the need to increase the capacity of Highway 18. Today, you are seeing the efforts which not only made this a top priority for Snoqualmie but for the State as well.

Jobs and Our Local Economy, Rob initially organized the first community job fairs. When COVID moved in-person events to online, he created SnoValleyJobs.com to help employers find local talent. Not only does working locally reduce our carbon footprint, it benefits when employees live and work in the same community by increasing economic activity and by reducing commutes, employees have more time for friends, families and devoting time into helping community organizations. Twelve thousand jobseekers and a hundred businesses use this website annually since its launch by Rob in 2021.

Fostering Business Growth as Rob is the founder of the nonprofit SnoValley Innovation Center. Every week, aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners wanting to grow their businesses gather for Innovation Fridays to receive technical assistance from local mentors. Rob will ensure that entrepreneurs will get both support and the public policies that they need to succeed across King County.

Coordinated Economic Development efforts started by Rob, he brought together the historic Snoqualmie Valley Economic Alliance for the cities of Carnation, Duvall, North Bend, and Snoqualmie, the Snoqualmie Tribe, and the King County Department of Local Services for the unincorporated areas in between, to coordinate the work regionally. His office will continue to support this on a larger scale with the cities of Issaquah, Sammamish, Redmond, Skykomish, and Woodinville.

Rob is committed to being the servant leader that will make our our county the best place to work, live and thrive!