Her Positions

Stacy and her husband are raising three daughters in Foster City, all of whom are attending public schools.  She has been actively involved in the school system, winning multiple awards for her volunteer efforts.  She knows firsthand how important it is that Foster City has a voice on our school boards to ensure equitable representation.  It is important to work collaboratively not only with the school boards, but other cities within our districts.  It is important to bring public preschool classrooms into Foster City, to ensure Bowditch receives the needed attention it so desperately needs, and that developers who wish to build in Foster City pay their fair share of impact fees that will assist with the influx of students new development will leave.

The housing crisis has created onerous mandates that could see the addition of almost 2,000 new units to the city before the year 2031.  As an 18 year resident of Foster City, Stacy believes that development must fit within the fabric of the city, and believes maintaining local control over housing to be paramount to preserving the quality of life residents enjoy.  What will be important is keeping developers to their promises – no more bait and switch that adds more housing at the last minute while taking away needed amenities.. The city needs to focus on creating low-income housing and workforce housing-the housing that will actually make a difference to easing the housing crisis while keeping parks and recreation areas intact.  Developer Impact Fees also must be appropriately scaled to reflect the actual impacts to our environment, schools, and traffic.  It is time for out-of-the-box thinking, of looking to residents for guidance on ways to find creative housing solutions that will minimize impacts to traffic, schools, and resources. Stacy will fight to ignite our retail centers to create dynamic spaces for the city to gather, while minimizing the impacts of development so Foster City remains the best place to live, work and play.

As the Bay Area navigates a post-Covid environment, traffic is slowly creeping back to pre-pandemic levels.  While traffic grows, public transportation within Foster City continues to suffer.  Our Sam Trans collaboration with our school districts has suffered and there is a lack of equity in how our students get to their respective middle and high schools.  More must be done to include Foster City in the Bay Area Transit System to encourage the use of public transit, to keep cars off the roads, and encourage walkable centers.  It is also important to continue to harness the incredible wealth of intellectual capital we have in our city to have out-of-the-box solutions to our traffic issues.

Covid has created enormous challenges for Foster City’s small business community.  Coupled with high rents, our small businesses are struggling to survive.  Stacy vows to work with the small business community, with the end goal to re-energize the business community. She will work with shopping center owners to come up with solutions that allow businesses to survive.  Stacy believes new options for retail must be considered, including out-of-the-box ideas such as pop-up restaurants, activating the golf course and creating new experiences there, and requiring commercial landlords to work to keep centers at capacity.  The city must partner with our small business community, not keep it at arm’s length.

Sea Level Rise is a real issue for our community.  Foster City recognized this early on and acted quickly to meet FEMA’s requirements to rebuild the levee protection system. However, by being an early actor, Foster City may have lost opportunities to collaborate regionally.  Stacy believes that it will be crucial to stay involved with One Shoreline, the organization created to address Bay Area Sea Level Rise, and ensure that our tax dollars are protected, that the levee project finish on time and on budget, and that we continue to address the issues of Sea Level Rise as it relates to Foster City.

Stacy is the current Vice-Chair of Foster City’s Parks and Recreation Committee.  She has diligently promoted Foster City’s proudest amenities -its parks and waterways.  As the vision for a replacement to Foster City’s Recreation Center takes shape over the next year, it is crucial that the process include residents. Civic Engagement, Accountability, and Transparency are the hallmarks of any successful city council, and these will be exceptionally important as the recreation center replacement process begins.

Stacy believes that Foster City’s healthy budget is due in large part to the successful stewardship by Foster City’s amazing staff.  A healthy budget and oversight should be recognized, but there are challenges ahead that must be faced.  Continued paydown of outstanding pension liabilities, planning for the funding of the new recreation center, and maintaining healthy staffing levels remain priorities.