 Hi, my name is Gary Hodges, and I am running to be your next Ward 3 City Councilman. I am a senior associate scientist with the University of Colorado and NOAA working in atmospheric and climate research. My wife, Lisa and I have been married for almost 30 years, and Longmont has been our home for 26 of those. We have two children and two grandchildren who also call Longmont home. Longmont is recognized and admired up and down the front range for our water, power, and internet services. I am running for City Council Ward 3 to extend and enhance our well-deserved reputation by bringing diversity of ideas to our city government with the goal of enhancing Longmont's vibrancy and prosperity. What will be our next-next slide? Will it be a large municipal project like Longmont's previous major accomplishments, or will the next-next slide instead be initiating or updating policy or procedure that distinguishes us from other communities? With this in mind, I have envisioned a solution-based platform that covers a range of topics and issues important to our city. Here are some examples. It might be that our next-next slide centers around government notifications. There is a common theme I have noticed when frustrations are expressed by residents that I believe can be attributed to a misalignment of city notifications with resident expectations. I love that Longmont is utilizing geographic information system, or GIS, to display and present information about our city, and I believe this technology can be leveraged to solve notification issues. Could be our next-next slide will be innovative ways we attract and retain police officers. My solution-based platform describes a strategy I would like to see the city explore to make Longmont's police force the envy of other communities. Could be our next-next slide is how we come together to address vagrancy and homelessness in a compassionate and durable way. In the past, this was not an issue for Longmont, and it doesn't have to be into the future either. My platform outlines how we can address this humanitarian issue in a way that will be acceptable to the majority of our city. What might be my favorite platform idea encourages us to reflect two decades back on the great success of Mary Leona Stacker's Pain to Goose project. I first floated this idea during my time on the Transportation Advisory Board. I would love to see art in public places team up with RTD to solicit proposals from local artists to imagine and design art installations that also function as bus stops. Besides adding vibrancy and encouraging prosperity along the important Main Street corridor, it will also motivate youth participation in public transportation. Please visit my campaign website www.hodgesforecouncil.com to read my solution-based platform that covers these and other topics in more detail. And if you have an idea about what Longmont's next-next slide might be, please reach out to me at hodgesforecouncil at gmail.com or call me directly at 850-862-1910. Let's work together to bring vibrancy and prosperity to our city. Thank you.