The next Chapel Hill Town Council will play a critical role in creating a new comprehensive plan. Choosing members with the vision to keep the town on a path of sustainability through environmental protection, economic health and social inclusion is vitally important.
I urge your support for Jim Ward, Donna Bell, Jason Baker and Lee Storrow.
Ward, seeking a fourth term while working for the N.C. Botanical Garden, has been a reliable voice for balancing these interests. Working beside him for eight years has been a pleasure.
In her two years on the council, preceded by service on the planning board, Bell has put her perspective as a social worker to productive use, often approaching issues from angles the rest of us have missed.
Baker, who works for Weaver Street Market and has a professional interest in economic development, has led through serving on the planning board. I have admired his persistence in making the case that environmental and economic interests are mutually reinforcing.
Storrow has earned my vote by demonstrating a solid understanding of the issues and an eagerness to follow through by raising and exploring perceptive questions. A promising leader, he brings to his energetic campaign successful experience as a community advocate through his work in health policy.
Ward, Bell, Baker and Storrow share a commitment to a community that’s environmentally, economically and socially sustainable. During the process of rewriting the comprehensive plan, they will work with us and for us as we redefine our vision for Chapel Hill’s future.
Sally Greene
Chapel Hill Town Council