ISSUES
Updated 11/18/2025
Economic Development
Roswell deserves a thriving, forward-looking economy that works for everyone. Mary will prioritize smart, sustainable growth that attracts new businesses while preserving and enhancing the historical character of our city.
Work with the GA Dept. of Education to recruit and attract a Community College or Technical College campus to Roswell’s Center for Lifelong Learning.
Recruit a medical research and office complex.
Engage the start-up business community to develop a Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Build a Natatorium to be used year-round by local swim and dive teams as well as a year-round gathering place for families.
Utilize a former big-box store’s former facility to house a year-round Farmers Market, knowing that 42% of GA's produce is sold through Farmer's Markets and that the State of GA provides Grants for municipalities to start Farmer’s Markets.
HISTORY
Roswell’s history is one of the most unique and impactful in the lifespan of the United States. Beginning before its founding as one of the original thirteen colonies as a settlement for Native Americans, it offers a lens into the very heart of America. Through the antebellum and colonial times, it offers a view of this country through its most turbulent times spanning the Civil War. Then through Reconstruction and the Civil Rights era, Roswell continued to evolve with the country, which is told through Roswell’s Historic homes, cemeteries, churches, and diners.
Create a Historic Preservation Trust that will own and control the historic properties within Roswell’s Center for Historic Preservation.
Convert one of Roswell's historic homes into a Roswell History Museum, filling it with a treasure trove of items honoring Roswell’s history.
Rebuild the historic Neel Reid Gardens on the site of the Mimosa Hall property.
Complete the restoration of Doc's Café, in accordance with the intent of Roswell’s oldest historically Black community.
PUBLIC Safety
Roswell has a decades-long reputation for providing its residents a safe environment in which to live, work, and play; it is imperative that this continues. Roswell should always be a leader in providing the best pay scale and benefits, as well as offering our public service professionals the best and most innovative equipment and processes to do their jobs.
Provide our professionals with best-in class pay, benefits, and support.
Restore full funding for police station supplies.
Restore full funding for training of our public service professionals.
Evaluate and invest in innovative benefit and support programs.
Natural Resources
Roswell offers unique natural resources within its boundaries: the Chattahoochee River, Chattahoochee Nature Center, Big Creek Parkway, and so much more makes Roswell unique among its N. Fulton neighbors and across the Southeastern US. Mary will work to ensure that the natural environment that our children and grandchildren inherit will be better than the one that exists today.
Establish and promote eco-tourism through the Roswell Center for Eco-Tourism.
Promote the Chattahoochee Nature Center to schools and potential visitors across the region.
Explore the creation of a Botanical Garden that will enhance Roswell’s reputation as a Center for Natural Resource Preservation and Promotion.
Restore recently de-forested lands in the historic area.
Infrastructure
All infrastructure investments need to be developed and executed under a plan that considers the current and long-term needs of Roswell’s residents, business community, and the city’s defined brand. Roswell’s planned investments must be communicated with our residents and business community … giving them an opportunity to share their ideas and concerns regarding the direction of the city.
Residents, business communities, and interested partners and constituents. (Same as current 1st bullet)
Seek out grants from federal and state governments as well as nonprofit institutions that would support the objectives of the Plan.
Execute major projects such as flooding mitigation on major streets.
Build additional residential sidewalks and walking trails.
Design and implement a long-term solution to our storm water drainage system needs.
Negotiate and implement long-delayed projects with the GDOT, including The Gateway Project and the Holcomb Bridge Rd./Hwy 400 interchange.
TRANSPARENCY & Collaboration
The City of Roswell’s government has an obligation to listen to its residents, providing them a greater voice in the plans for the future of their city. Transparency in all appropriate matters will be a hallmark of this great city. Roswell will work better when its elected officials work together with its residents.
Ensure appropriate financial records and other matters regarding the operations of the City of Roswell are released to the residents on a defined schedule.
Listen to the residents and business owners of Roswell regarding the plans and finances of the City of Roswell.
Working with constituents and partners to develop and implement plans.
Allow business owners in the City of Roswell to speak at Council meetings.
Respond to requests for information from the City of Roswell in a timely, accurate, and complete manner.
Financial & Organizational Governance
Roswell’s resident and businesses have a right to be informed about the financial and organizational operations of its government. It is through such knowledge that Roswell’s residents and businesses gain and maintain a trust in its elected officials and a belief in the plans these officials are creating for Roswell’s future.
Follow accepted accounting principles.
Pursue and institutionalize on-going process improvement practices.
Share all appropriate financial data with the public in a timely and complete manner.
Base budgets on realistically anticipated revenue and expense projections.
ONE ROSWELL
Roswell is more than a collection of buildings, historic places, trees, and infrastructure. Roswell is, at its heart, a Community of people. Roswell’s government reinforces this Community by listening to its people -- talking with them and not at them. And let us not forget, the very word Community is based on Unity. We are ONE Roswell.
Listen to Roswell’s residents and business owners in formal meetings, the city’s restaurants, and its many parklands.
Hold quarterly Town Hall meetings across the city.
Bring renewed life to our business and neighborhood councils.
Honor and respect people, regardless of their address, origin, or faith.