Experienced – Committed – Capable
It has been an honor to serve my friends and neighbors as a city councilor for three terms. I’m asking for your support this term to continue work on affordable housing, cheaper energy, and smart city budgets.
In my three terms as councilor, I have helped create affordable housing, pass city spending guidelines to protect our taxpayers, and initiated a municipal solar project.
For 30 years, as a newspaper publisher, non-profit leader and city councilor I’ve collaborated with others to move our city forward. This term I want to work on
- Housing for all income levels
- Stable and predictable budgets that don’t overburden residents
- Zoning changes developed by our Housing Committee to increase housing supply
- More innovative ways to get citizen engagement prior to council decisions
- A revitalized city hall and police station complex that residents can be proud of
- A greener Portsmouth for our children
When I look with pride on the creation of 127 units of below-market rate housing at the Sherburne School, stable and predictable city budgets, enhanced tax abatements for seniors and the disabled, greener electricity options and other good results of our council, I am motivated to continue to serve. These good things only happen with teamwork and energy – my leadership principle is captured in an African prover, “To go fast, go alone. But to go far, go with others.”
Paid for by Neighbors for Tabor, John Tabor
55 Pleasant Point Drive, Portsmouth, NH