Gina's Pledge

MY PLEDGE TO MY CONSTITUENTS

I, Gina M. Burgess, do solemnly promise to each of my constituents, the residents of Allen County, Indiana, the following:

FISCAL WATCHDOG: I acknowledge that as a member of County Council, my job is to be a fiscal watchdog in making sure that taxpayers are getting the most for each dollar spent at the county level and at the same time striving to maintain and later decrease current levels of spending at the county government level. I will question the need for every dollar spent to make sure that the need is genuine and not merely a desire of the department or agency making the financial request.

INNOVATION: I will constantly strive to improve county operations by seeking and encouraging innovations that will streamline county operations and make them more efficient and less costly.

ACCESSABILITY: I will always be accessible to you and willing to listen to what you have to say, even if we have differences of perspective and do not see eye to eye. I will work to make County Council and county departments/agencies funded by county tax dollars more accessible to the public.

TRANSPARENCY: I will always post how I vote on any given matter and answer any questions you may have about my voting record. I will work to make County Council and county departments/agencies funded by county tax dollars more transparent to the public.

CONFICTS OF INTEREST: I will always make it known on the record if I have or perceive to have any known conflicts. In matters where the conflict may be significant and unique only to me, I will abstain from voting.

SELF-IMPOSED PAY RAISE: Any act that is essentially a self-imposed pay raise is by virtue of that pay raise a conflict that is significant and unique to me, an elected official, when compared to other people such a pay raise might affect, such as county employees. In the event that a pay raise comes to the table, I will advocate that the pay raise not apply to the county council until the start of the next elected county council. Or, in the alternative, if it appears my vote will be in the minority, I will abstain from voting so as to not affect the pay raises of all other county employees, should those pay raises be appropriate.

Paid for and authorized by VOTE GINA BURGESS, James McCoy, Treasurer.