Experienced. Dedicated. Focused.
Julie Deshler for Crystal Mayor
Hi, I'm Julie Deshler and I'm running for Mayor of Crystal, Minnesota.
About Julie
Experienced
Julie served on the Crystal City Council representing Ward 4 (northern portion of Crystal) from 2010-2020. As a council member she proved herself to be a community centered leader, with a focus on responsible spending, transparent community engagement, and common-sense focus on spending, redevelopment and investment.
As Mayor she will understand the importance of a quality public safety department, park & recreation and public works department, which includes some of the following: continued maintenance for underground water and sewer infrastructure, maintaining community parks, sidewalks, mill & overlay projects, streetlights, snowplowing, and street sweeping.
Good Government is Responsive
Julie has a proven track record of listening, responding and engaging in our community. Examples of Julie’s past and present community engagement include, prior city council representative, served as planning commission liaison, park & recreation liaison, Mayor Pro- Tem, past president of the Economic Development Authority, Crystal Lions Club, Crystal/New Hope Rotary Club, Crystal Frolics Committee, lifetime member of Charles Knable Post 494 Auxiliary, Beyond the Yellow Ribbon, and helps plan/organize the annual Crystal Airport Open House and Fly In.
Focused On the Future
Julie’s focus will be...
- Common sense spending. Are we saving enough for our future, do we have areas in the city where we can cut costs and yet maintain core city services that offer a good quality of life for our community? In other words, we need to have a 10,20,30-year plan in place that considers what our expenses are and will be to maintain our infrastructure. At the same time, we need to be mindful of spending our tax dollars responsibly so we do not continue to have huge property tax increases that will lead to residents not being able to afford to stay in their homes.
- Transparent Community engagement that includes working with residents and businesses cleaning up our streetscape to create a more welcoming appearance. This is important for attracting new families and businesses to our area.
- Strengthening business and community engagement to keep local voices involved and engaged through our Commissions, Environmental Quality, Equity and Diversity, Planning, Park & Recreation and our Charter Commissions.
- Continue to appoint task forces as needed to address single areas of resident concern, such as single source garbage collection, expanding youth and senior programs & activities, perceived water rate disparities and why, and exploring ideas to promote and enhance neighborhood crime prevention outreach efforts. Those are a few ideas and comments from residents that Julie has heard about while door knocking during this election.
The Recipe: Potato Pizza hot Dish
Why a Recipe?
Often in the early stages of first running for Crystal Council Julie found that some residents were not comfortable or interested in talking about local politics while she was door knocking, but most people could get behind talking about recipes.
It offered a way to relate to people and once residents felt comfortable, some would start sharing ideas, visions, concerns or questions they had about Crystal.
Just like good cooking, healthy communities don’t happen by accident. It’s grounded by good ingredients, patience and love.
This recipe is fall/winter comfort food at its best, and she hopes you enjoy this casserole as much as her family does.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 lb ground beef
- 1 small onion, chopped
- Salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste
- 5 cups lightly boiled potatoes peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 3oz. pkg of chopped pepperoni
- 1 can tomato soup
- 1 can cheddar cheese soup
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp. dried oregano
- 1/4 tsp. italian seasoning
- 1/2 tsp. brown sugar
- 8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350
- Cook ground beef and onion in a skillet until evenly brown
- Drain grease, season beef mixture with salt, pepper and garlic powder.
- Heat both soups with milk, oregano, italian seasoning and brown sugar until heated and mixed.
- Spread potatoes on bottom of a greased casserole dish.
- Spread ground beef mixture on top of potatoes.
- Top with pepperoni.
- Pour soup mixture on top.
- Bake covered for 30 minutes.
- Remove dish, add cheese and bake covered 10-15 minutes or until cheese melts.
Serves 4-6. Enjoy!