What Changes On Day One
Three Things. One Term.
Not everything gets fixed in a single term. But the average government official has never operated at this level. I have — and our county deserves a leader who brings that experience into the room. These aren't promises. They're a checklist. Check back after the election to track progress.
Audit the Budget. Spend Smarter.
I've built organizations that had to justify every dollar before they spent it. I'm bringing that same standard here.
The Clerk's office doesn't set fiscal policy — the county commissioners do, and the office executes a budget it doesn't control. Anyone who tells you electing a new clerk will fix the county's budget picture is overpromising. That's not what this is.
What I bring to that conversation is something the office hasn't had: real private-sector budget experience, applied to a full operational audit — vendor contracts, staffing decisions, technology spending, process decisions — presented publicly, in plain language, not buried in a document nobody reads.
None of that requires anyone's permission and none of it assumes waste going in. It's about giving Kitsap residents a clear answer to a question they're owed: what is this office spending, and what is it producing for that money.
Rebuild the Resources. At Zero Cost.
Plain-language guides, video walkthroughs, and digital tools that actually prepare people for their day in court — costing the county nothing.
Residents who've called this office say the same thing over and over: they didn't know what to expect, and nobody told them before they needed to know. Someone showing up three hours early for jury duty because they were worried about parking. Someone whose paperwork wasn't complete because the form they needed wasn't where they were looking.
The fix isn't a bigger budget. It's organizing information that already exists — jury duty, passport applications, protection orders, court records, navigating court without a lawyer — into plain-language guides people can actually use before they walk through the door. That's exactly what the Understanding the Court guides on this site already do, and it's what a rebuilt public-facing side of the office would do at scale.
This is genuinely a zero-cost initiative. It requires someone who thinks clear communication matters enough to build it — not new spending.
Zero cost initiativeShow Up. Every Month.
Monthly Office Hours, public Q&A, and an annual report the public can actually read.
I believe this office can be a shining example of what local government looks like when someone actually shows up for it. That means being available — on this site, through Ask Brien, and in monthly Office Hours open to any Kitsap County resident.
Office Hours are Zoom sessions, scheduled monthly on Friday evenings so working residents can actually attend, open Q&A with no set agenda and no communications team filtering what gets asked. Sessions may be recorded and shared publicly — if I say it here, I stand behind it.
That same standard applies to an annual public report: where the budget went, what the office delivered, in plain language — not buried in a government archive nobody opens.