Dear Neighbors,

I have decided to seek my Party’s nomination after long discussion with my family, friends and supporters because I see substantive opportunities to improve the way our city government functions, to break out of the business as usual cycle and introduce new, more efficient ways to manage our city government.

The private sector has been innovating, improving, and streamlining the way it does business for years; in a competitive environment you either improve or you go out of business. Unfortunately, the public sector is not subjected to the rules of competition and instead taxpayers are saddled with the cost of running an inefficient operation.

I believe that it doesn’t have to be that way.

Over the past eight years, the City’s budget has grown at an astronomic rate. Much of this, I believe, could have been avoided by more prudent and purposeful focus on driving cost of doing business down while at the same time improving services. The Kimball report provides an objective, unbiased assessment of the city’s operation. It supports my position that there are systemic problems with the current operation of city government. While it primarily focused on the permitting process, I believe its findings apply across city departments and operations.

We can do more and better, with less.

I don’t enter this race to criticize the current Mayor or his Party or to engage in partisan gamesmanship. I’m not a politician. Instead I enter this race as a concerned citizen, simply to provide the people of Milford a clear choice, to provide them options, and to offer them new and competitive ideas.

If I am to receive my Party’s nomination, I will work to draw clear and constructive distinctions between myself and the other three Republican candidates in this race. I look forward to opportunities ahead.

I hope you will join me.

Sincerely,

Genevieve Salvatore