As a city council member, he wanted to ban bow hunting deer within city limits. He said, "deer, when you shoot it with an arrow, unless you're an awfully good, it's going to run for a while. It could run out into traffic, run into somebody's yard. Kid's shouldn't see that, and it's just dangerous."

As a city council member, he voted against conducting a study about whether city employees are being paid fairly. He said he voted against it because it wanted it to be done by the city rather than by an independent contractor.

As a city council member, he supported an apartment development at Windy Hill Road. He said, "this will probably attract the young professional with easy access to the major roads/shopping and entertainment. It will sure have a nice tax benefit for the city. We will continue to try to create a more balanced home ownership ... we would like to see more home ownership rather than apartments but land has become so expensive making it hard for a developer to build affordable single-family houses."

As a city council member, he said, "I think at this moment we need to be concentrating on ways to retain our police officers. We have the best police department in the state and are losing these exceptionally trained officers to other municipalities which have better compensation."

As a city council member, he voted against a rezoning to allow an eight-townhome development at the corner of Fairground Street and North Marietta Parkway.