The Issues &
Solutions

A vote for Kim Knaus means the thoughtful and prioritized allocation of tax-payer dollars to ensure our city is properly resourced to truly create safe streets with:

• Enhanced lighting and surveillance in residential and commercial corridors.
• Expanded Code Enforcement to tackle the issue of slumlords.
• Meaningful collaborations between our city agencies and community partners to combat the tremendous amounts of trash and graffiti.
• Supporting the increase of more patrol officers on our streets for proactive policing and quicker call response times.
• Traffic safety and infrastructure improvements.
• Emergency preparedness measures.
• Enforcement and introduction of city ordinances that reduce the instances of long-term vacant commercial buildings. Out-of-town property owners should not be allowed to hold on to empty, blighted, boarded-up eye sores in our city that attract crime.

As your next city councilperson, I will:

• Work closely with businesses and community partners to enhance storefronts, improve infrastructure, and create attractive public spaces. Thus creating a more attractive and welcoming city. 
• Expand our city’s collaborative university engagement. As a Co-Lead for the San Bernardino Investment Playbook, I worked to ensure the success of the arrival of the Entrepreneurial Resource Center in downtown SB. I will continue to ensure we foster collaborative university engagement, working with CSUSB to bridge gaps. 
• Facilitate partnerships with businesses that will bring sustainable, good-paying jobs to our city. The 5th Ward hosts the University. Building off this enormous asset is necessary to capture employers seeking college-educated individuals. By doing so, we will keep our college grads in our city, rather than them leaving San Bernardino. 
• Prioritize smart urban planning that promotes walkability, public transportation, and green spaces.

We can no longer bear the burden of almost 1/3 of the entire County’s homeless! As your next city councilperson, I will:

• Prioritize our residents and businesses. 
• Strengthen partnerships with our County and State, ensuring we continue to obtain necessary funding and service resources for mental health, drug abuse, counseling, and psychiatric care.
• Support legislation that promotes the removal of rigorous red tape delaying the construction of homes. Housing is a part of the equation to not only decrease homelessness but also to prevent it. My goal is to get people off the streets and keep people off the streets.
• Work towards a truly regional approach, working with surrounding cities to implement a Regional Homeless Initiative. A plan that considers all cities of the Inland Empire and brings our collective jurisdictions and resources together, aligning strategies, prohibiting the perpetual history of homeless being shuffled around, or dumped in our city, and ensuring this crisis is being addressed by the many, not just the few. 
• Establish a coordinated entry system (CES) that ensures homeless individuals are quickly connected to appropriate housing and services based on their needs, using standardized assessments and referrals. Establish protocols for sharing data across agencies and service providers to improve coordination, track outcomes, and allocate resources effectively. We must use data to make data-driven decisions to ensure our efforts are successful and make improvements as necessary.