Helen Price Johnson's First Term Accomplishments

Re-sized County government to meet available revenues and maintain essential services

• $ 6 million less overhead
  • Cut local government costs by freezing salaries, no COLA’s, reduced health benefits, successfully negotiated savings with labor unions
• Reduced staffing by 20%
  • Took deepest cuts in parks and administration to preserve public health and safety programs
• Reorganized Departments
  • Combined administrative services to minimize management and maximize support staff
• Technology improvements
  • Re-formed the fledgling countywide IT committee and created a strategic plan for IT support in local government

Protected our precious resources

• Trillium Community Forrest
  • Following a $4 million community fundraising effort with WCLT, a sustainable management plan has been created to steward this land  with minimal demand on public resources
• Clean Water Utility
  • Restored local capacity for vital storm water management, on-site septic programs, salmon recovery and a hydro geologist when other funding sources disappeared
• Glendale restoration
  • Successfully brought together specialists, community members and local government to respond to and recover from the April 2009 washout
• Deer Lagoon Firearms
  • After significant community outreach, voted to end the five year firearm use in Deer Lagoon

Fostered local economic recovery

• Economic Development Council, Northwest Ag Business Center and Tourism Committees
  • Serves as Board representative, aligning strategies to strengthen the local Culinary Agriculture industry; resulting in a 30% increase in lodging tax revenues since 2009