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First Term Accomplishments

Mark can be proud of his record of accomplishments in just 3 1/2 years as your county supervisor. The highlights of which are listed below:

• Improved Fire and Rescue support in the Garrisonville District by improving response times from the worst to the best in the county in just three years;

• Added 53 full time fire fighters and rescue workers and 13 Sheriffs Deputies;

• Created the temporary fire station on Shelton Shop Rd. adjacent to North Stafford High School which will become the permanent Station 14 in 2010;

• Added 50% more athletic fields to our park system;

• Increased school funding despite the economic downturn. In the last 2 years Mark voted and spoke on the record against the final budget because it didn’t contain adequate funding for teacher pay raises;

• Streamlined county government that produced efficiencies and reduced personnel costs;

• Negotiated a total re-write of the Residential Traffic Management Plan with VDOT which resulted in installing new stop signs at the intersections of Whitson Ridge Dr. and Field Stone Ct., Old Mineral Rd. and Settler’s Way and other intersections throughout Stafford;

• Lead the winning effort to bury the Dominion Virginia Power transmission lines on the southern border of the district;

• Installed a 4-way stop at Eustace Rd. and Northampton Blvd;

• Installed Traffic lights in front of North Stafford High School on Rt. 610, and at the intersections of Courthouse Rd. and Shelton Shop Rd, and Highpointe Blvd. and Mine Rd.;

• Permanently preserved more than 6,000 acres of rural land from development, including the Crow’s Nest peninsula;

• As the economy recovers, Mark already has an executable plan for an aggressive road improvement program as a result of the passage of the Transportation Bond Referendum;

• Worked successfully as the Chairman of the George Washington Regional Commission and the Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization to secure state and federal funding for Stafford road projects including the new State Route 630 interchange, 1,050 new commuter parking spaces along Rt. 610, and the Falmouth interchange;

• Voted to keep taxes low. I voted against the $.14 property tax increase in 2006 and the personal property tax increase in 2009 – both were excessive;

• Voted against the 25% pay increase for board members passed by the board majority.  Mark has even returned his increase by making generous donations to the district schools’ PTO’s;

• Completed a new hospital in North Stafford;

• Completed the Rt. 610 road widening project;

• Passed the first county ordinances limiting the number of non-related people who can reside in a household;

• Created a new zoning ordinance that facilitated the re-development of the new Aquia Town Center—that after several delays—will start construction in January, 2010;

• Successfully pushed for the accelerated construction of the new reservoir that will reduce the impact of future droughts;

• Improved the planning process for major capitol projects by implementing better business practices and modern modeling techniques;