From Martha’s campaign

Campaign updates

Notes, policy releases, and campaign milestones from Martha Halenwick’s District 2 campaign.

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June 18 — The complete plan is in one place

We have gathered Martha’s housing, growth, capital, health, and emergency-response commitments into one connected plan. The two detail pages retain the caps, funding sources, and service consequences behind the shorter campaign case.

June 11 — Housing Coalition endorses Martha, asks for tighter project measures

The Cressvale Housing Coalition endorsed Martha’s District 2 campaign. The coalition cited the bounded housing partnership, the proposed behavioral-health and outreach increase, and the added housing-rehabilitation coordination.

It also asked Martha to publish an annual rehabilitation target, a per-project county subsidy cap, and a common reporting standard before partnership funds are awarded. Martha agrees that those measures belong in the public terms for any project.

Read the coalition’s endorsement and reservation in its own words.

June 3 — Five priorities, one standard

Martha’s questionnaire response named a matched housing partnership, compact growth with infrastructure commitments, targeted tax relief and bounded capital work, the sheriff-to-health transfer, and a coordinated five-year road and drainage schedule.

Across each commitment, her standard is the same: put the limit, schedule, and result in public view.

May 21 — Martha clarifies the health-and-response tradeoff

After the first joint candidate forum, Martha published the full arithmetic behind her $1.8 million annual transfer from the current sheriff baseline to county health.

She also stated the consequences directly: fewer deputy shifts, less overtime flexibility, slower lower-priority response, less proactive patrol, and slower vehicle and equipment replacement. The full plan shows both the health services added and sheriff capacity reduced.

March 24 — Campaign launch

Martha opened her campaign for the vacant District 2 seat with a promise to plan across jurisdictional lines and publish a measurable result for every county investment.