SERVICE TO THE DISTRICT
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During the Christmas week of 2005 and 2006, Dave and his two sons traveled by bus to Biloxi, Mississippi, where they helped in a church-sponsored project to rebuild houses destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Dave also worked as a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief organizations as well as Tsunami relief organizations.
During Dave’s time as a State Representative, he has helped several families from losing their homes to foreclosures, and has also helped several seniors receive money back from numerous scam programs.
He has volunteered his services with Volunteer Home Care, which transports seniors to and from medical care facilities, and also takes seniors to Reading Phillies baseball games. He has also served the Salvation Army for 19 years, Boy Scouts of America, and Youth Leagues. He was a member of the Salem U.C.C. Consistery for 10 years, and he served for eight years as a board member of the Pike Oley District Preservation Coalition.
Dave has had many accomplishments at the local level and now he is taking these accomplishments district and state wide. For state accomplishments and issues visit the Issues link.
- Dave has been instrumental in preserving over 10,000 acres of farmland/open space in Oley. His two bills that were signed into law, these past two years, will help preserve farmland not only in the district, but all over Pennsylvania.
- When a large Philadelphia developer sought to develop 190 acres of mostly prime farmland in Oley, Dave successfully negotiated an agreement which limits the developer to clustering senior residences on 30 acres and dedicates the remaining 160 acres to the township as open space. The agreement not only preserves a substantial area of open space for uses such as farming, but it significantly increased revenues for the school district with no cost due to no additional children. Dave is working on legislation to make it easier for townships to cluster in order to preserve open space and farmland.
- Dave helped to spearhead a grass roots effort to void permits issued by the State and the Delaware River Basin Authority to the Wissahickon Water Company. Wissahickon intended to extract 288,000 gallons of water a day from a spring adjacent to an exceptional value stream in the Oley Valley, a project which threatened the ground water supply of local residents as well as the environment. Dave helped to raise over $200,000 and spent countless hours of his time to protect the ground water. This effort was ultimately successful—without the assistance of state government—in preventing the bottled water company from taking this region’s water for corporate gain.
- When township residents asked for a municipal police force, a costly addition to local government services, Dave joined with his fellow supervisors to create a highly efficient and effective municipal police force, and, to make every effort to minimize the resultant increase in foregoing yearly salaries.
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