This letter comes with support for incumbent Mayor Sweetie Marbury for City Council. I could expand on the hallmarks of Sweetie’s positive actions and character traits here such as dogged determination, relationship building, loyalty, extraordinary drive to be well informed and make common sense decisions about Durango’s broad base of issues.
Instead, however, I want to highlight a number of Sweetie’s accomplishments and positions for those unfamiliar with her breadth and depth of impact on Durango.
Sweetie started standing up for Durango and attending city meetings in 1987.
Over the last 28 years she has worked tirelessly as a private citizen as well as city councilor. She advocated to save and enhance Brookside Park; pushed for our current single-stream recycling program knowing the difference it would make in decreased use of landfills and Durango’s carbon footprint. She campaigned to pass the LPEA franchise agreement that secured solar farms such as the Boys & Girls Club installation.
Standing up for Durango businesses, residents and neighborhoods are part of her DNA as a city councilor. She advocated successfully for the building height code against three-story homes dwarfing existing residences and land-use code changes about solar and privacy issues. Cooperation with the county and city is the best in decades thanks to the open atmosphere among elected officials fostered in part by Sweetie.
The City Council is coming closer to opening Lake Nighthorse for recreational use in large part due to Sweetie’s relationship building with Ute Mountain and Southern Ute tribal councils. She also sees to celebrating Durango’s youth publicly at council meetings. Sweetie voted to maintain the free trolley because of its heavy use by students, Durango’s underserved and tourists.
She also supports the upcoming ballot issue to extend the 1999 half-cent sales tax to ensure the maintenance and improvements of indoor and outdoor recreation facilities and Durango’s 9,000 trees.
Please join me in voting for proven leadership across the board in Sweetie Marbury.
Kathleen Adams
Durango
