Grace Shackman For County Commissioner

Grace Shackman has been a hard-working, effective first-term county commissioner and deserves to be re-elected. She works well with people and quietly gets things done.

Grace serves on the county-wide Solid Waste Management Task Force and was instrumental n forming the Washtenaw County Solid Waste Task Consortium that 13 local communities and public institutions have joined. She also serves on the Head Start Policy Committee, Housing Bureau for Seniors, Washtenaw Development Council, Accommodations Ordinance Commission, and Overall Economic Development Committee.

Grace was also elected chair of Ways and Means, the committee through which all financial matters of the Board of Commissioners must pass.

Grace is a smart, dedicated commissioner who works hard for what she believes in. I have seen Grace work diligentíy and effectively to reduce duplication of services within county government, as well as with other units of government and nonprofit agencies. She is committed to maintaining human services for the county's neediest citizens. She supports programs that will reduce infant mortality, improve treatment of the mentally ill, increase substance abuse treatment options, and provide alternatives to jail for nonviolent offenders. When the commissioners consider the jail overcrowding problem, I believe Grace will not support expansion of the county jail without significant support of alternatives to incarceration.

Grace deserves to be re-elected to a second term as County Commissioner. She will work to use her first-term experience to continue her common-sense approach to providing good county government.