Kennewick City Council Pos 1
Gretl Crawford
Elected Experience
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Other Professional Experience
Gretl Crawford Homes and Interiors, Owner Custom Home Builder/Commercial Development
Over 20 years business/Developing Experience Winner of numerous awards, recognitions...
Engagement:
- Jeffrey Marzyck
Endorsements and letters
Donors
💰$19,345 from 49+ donors, including Crawford Gretl Ms ($2627)Ford Amy Ms ($1000)Petty Lee Mr ($1000)Gimera Michael Mr ($1000)Tri City Assn Of Realtors ($1000)Home Builders Assn Of Tri Cities ($1000)Wa Assn Of Realtors ($1000)Connors Michael Mr ($1000)
Don Britain
Elected Experience: Elected to Kennewick City Council in 2009, elected by Council as Mayor since 2018.
Education: Kamiakin High School 1979. Columbia Basin College 1981. Advanced Certificate of Municipal Leadership (CML) from the Association...
Engagement:
- Michael S. Cochrane
- Jim and AJ Foster
- Sue Frost
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Donors
💰$15,023 from 21+ donors, including Frost Sue ($2000)Plumbers And Steamfitters Local Union 598 ($2000)Ibew Local Union 112 ($2000)International Union Of Operating Engineers Local 302 ($1000)Parish Paul ($1000)Kennewick Union Fire Fighter 1296 ($1000)Sewa Central Labor Council ($1000)Ibew Local Union 77 ($1000)
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Citizens should elect me because I will make the best decision I can based on my experience, judgment, and beliefs. |  CrawfordLife is about constant learning. My goal is to represent the entire community as best I can. I appreciate hearing others' perspectives to help come up with good decisions for the good of the community.  BritainI always try and obtain as much information I can on issues that will affect citizens before making a decision. | Citizens should elect me because I will seek out opinions and perspectives different from my own when formulating a decision. | |||
Our city is not urban and shouldn't pretend to be. We should prioritize traffic flow. | BritainA true balance is needed. We are a growing city. We are currently working on pedestrian trails and constantly looking at traffic studies and improvements. | CrawfordI want to work on development of the Downtown Historic district and help to implement the vision of Bridge to Bridge. I believe that the connection between these two areas will be great for the city. I would love to see e-bikes and scooters in these areas to connect them and encourage safe community interaction. | Our city needs to grow its urban core and should prioritize pedestrian-friendliness, even if these things make for slower traffic. | ||
The city has a role to play in cost of living and affordable housing. | CrawfordWe need more affordable housing and this can be achieved through more creative thinking and zoning for smaller options for living and community style living that a lot of people really benefit from. Mixed-use zoning will allow this to become a reality. | Britain | Cost of living and housing affordability should be left solely to the market. | ||
Cities should rely on the private sector to create projects that enhance culture. | Britain | CrawfordYou need both of these things to create a vibrant and creative community. Cities often lead the way with long term planning options, but then have to rely on private development to get it completed, both for timing, as well as budget reasons. A prime example of this is the Vista field project, that was a community vision, but is now just growing weeds, as the city and Port have been unable to get things moving. Private development would take it off of the tax rolls of the community and would create tax revenue for the city from private industry. This is a win-win. | Cities should help fund major capital projects that enhance the vibrancy of local culture. | ||
We should control and guide suburban sprawl even if doing so affects short-term economic growth. | CrawfordSmart growth and development is integral to a well-managed city. The long term vision planning should help to guide future growth of the city, but the free market is often the one that provides the growth. This is a partnership that has to be guided and managed through clear and concise communication and guidelines of the city's goals, along with needs and demands of a city, but private development needs to align with the city's guidelines, and the city has to be able to provide clear direction of those goals, hopefully from experience, at the city level. | Britain | We shouldn’t restrain free market development; it's critical to our local economy. | ||
A local majority is against cannabis legalization and therefore we should not allow cannabis businesses in our city. | CrawfordI am not an advocate of marijuana use for young people. I support the medicinal benefits of marijuana. It is not legal on a Federal level and there are issues to be weighed. This is a decision that would have to have more research and input for me. BritainIf the citizens want legal shops in Kennewick I would be open to bring the discussion up again as it has been years. It is about what the citizens want, and vote of the people would be the best answer. | Cannabis is legal in the state of Washington and running a cannabis business should be legal in our city. | |||
The city has a responsibility to control homelessness by code enforcement. | BritainOur police department is very compassionate when dealing with this issue. Its not about tickets and arrests. | CrawfordI believe that cities have to be responsible in regards to homeless people within the city. I believe that there are systemic issues with a lot of homeless that needs to be addressed through mental health treatment and counseling. I do not believe providing free drug kits or drugs is treating the systemic roots. While the community needs to be responsive to the homeless and try to help treat their issues to care for them, every citizen also has a duty to attempt to provide for themselves and better their situation. There has to be accountability on both sides of the equation. If the city can provide services and housing for them, then they need to become a productive part of it. | The city has a responsibility to reduce homelessness by addressing its systemic roots. | ||
The city needs to invest more in mental health and other vital services so that police departments don't need to wear so many hats. | CrawfordThe police department trains it's officers in skills to keep our cities and streets safe. Mental health counselors are trained to help people deal with Mental health issues. These are not one in the same, however, the police have begun answering more and more mental health calls that they are not trained to deal with. If you take away the officer's ability to control the situation to maintain safety of the individual in need, as well as others around them, than injury often occurs. Vice Versa, if you send out a mental health professional to an unsafe situation, they are not necessarily prepared to handle that, and injury or violence could be the result of that as well. We need to work together to come up with better solutions for the safety of all. We also need to talk more about the rising amount of mental health issues and the root causes, and treat those. | BritainKennewick currently has a program in place where a mental health professional is on every shift. This has helped greatly as many calls are mental health related. | Redistributing police department funds will only put greater strain on existing officers. |