With a background in business planning and compliance, Brandi is well prepared to manage complex budgets, ensure accountability, and stabilize county finances.

What this means: Brandi is a fiscal conservative who thinks outside the box. Expect her to look for savings by reducing redundancies, streamlining cumbersome processes, and negotiating operating expenses at every opportunity. By electing Brandi, you are electing someone who is committed to financial health for Coos County.

Brandi’s experience in regulatory compliance and contract management makes her effective at balancing limited resources, funding law enforcement, and restoring capacity for the jail and DA’s office.

What this means: Brandi is a systems thinker who is prepared to collaborate across county departments to facilitate creative solutions to social problems like drug addiction and theft. By overlapping resources in innovative ways, greater impact can be achieved at lower cost. Brandi’s background in Sociology and Psychology well-equips her with the understanding needed to tackle complex social problems.

As someone who has coordinated multi-department operations and secured compliance across industries, Brandi can lead efforts to prioritize infrastructure, secure grants, and manage the logistics of maintenance and upgrades.

What this means: Brandi will push for improved roads budgets where possible by prioritizing repairs and maintenance using safety and usage data, while also making road spending more transparent with clear public breakdowns. She will champion creative transit solutions such as demand-response shuttles, rideshare partnerships, and community bus routes to better connect rural residents to jobs, schools, and healthcare. By fostering partnerships with businesses, schools, and nonprofits, she will work to expand transportation options while keeping costs manageable.

Brandi's consulting and systems analysis background gives her the ability to evaluate long-term land-use impacts, balance business needs with environmental protections, and ensure that county zoning decisions are transparent and fair.

What this means: Brandi is the daughter of a logger, and understands how vital our natural resources are to the County’s economic prosperity. While Brandi does not expect the logging industry to return to what it once was, she is excited at the prospect of increasing our local eco-tourism and also capitalizing on timber sales where possible. Brandi is a supporter of local development, but also respects the lifestyle of Oregonians who have lived in this area for generations. By balancing our desire for economic development with a deep regard for the “wildness” that makes our beautiful home unique, Brandi will take a caring and thoughtful approach to all county land use.

Brandi’s social-organizational psychology training and executive coaching equip her to strengthen collaboration between departments, improve crisis communication, and prepare the county for wildfire and other emergencies.

What this means: Brandi will work to strengthen collaboration between departments by creating more clarity within roles where possible, sharing playbooks, and hosting cross-department briefings so the county acts as one team in an emergency. She will collaborate to improve crisis communications where possible using tools like pre-approved message templates, single-source updates, and accessible alerts—while also working to improve preparedness through countywide drills, after-action reviews, and readiness scorecards. Her wildfire strategy will focus on evacuation mapping, defensible-space outreach, and mutual-aid training, backed by accountability tools like checklists, reviews, and transparent reporting.

With experience building compliance systems and coaching leaders in industries like construction and manufacturing, Brandi can bridge the gap between economic growth and environmental protections in floodplains, wetlands, and estuaries.

What this means: Brandi will bring her compliance background to streamline permitting where possible, helping businesses understand regulations up front while ensuring wetlands, estuaries, and floodplains are protected. She will use impact data to balance economic and environmental needs, design policies that are practical and enforceable, and foster collaboration between industries and regulators. In doing so, the County will build community trust that growth can happen responsibly without sacrificing the natural resources that make the Oregon coast so special.

As a health coach and leadership coach, Brandi understands both personal and systemic health challenges. She’s uniquely positioned to advocate for stronger rural healthcare partnerships and accessible social services.

What this means: Brandi will strengthen rural healthcare partnerships by collaborating with hospitals, clinics, and providers, to address access barriers such as transportation and loss of coverage for inmates needing rehabilitative treatment. She will encourage integration between health, mental health, and social services, and promote prevention-focused programs that reduce long-term costs and improve well-being. Brandi is committed to protecting the healthcare systems in Coos county, and will work with local leadership to preserve our struggling hospital and medical transportations services.

Brandi’s coaching background emphasizes communication, conflict resolution, and leadership development, which are essential for rebuilding trust between law enforcement, county government, and the public.

What this means: Brandi will work to improve communication channels between departments and the public, while continuing to build conflict resolution skills like mediation and de-escalation. She will invest in leadership development where possible to promote effective public engagement between law enforcement officials and residents, and she will organize town halls, listening sessions, and joint workshops that foster collaboration instead of division with the goal of developing solutions for local crime and addiction.

Having managed multi-sector operations, Brandi can push for efficient road budgets and creative local transit solutions that connect residents and support economic growth.

What this means: Because Brandi has managed operations that span multiple industries and sectors, she knows how to stretch dollars and make systems work together. She will bring that same efficiency mindset to county roads and transportation, ensuring tax dollars are used wisely while also pushing for local transit options that help residents get where they need to go and keep the economy moving.

One of her greatest strengths: Brandi is skilled at making complex systems accessible to everyday people. With her coaching experience, she can expand civic education, host accessible forums, and ensure county decisions are transparent and participatory.

What this means: Brandi will expand civic education with workshops and online resources that explain county systems in everyday language, while also making public forums more inclusive through flexible scheduling, livestreaming, and plain-language materials. She will promote transparency with dashboards, summaries, and visuals that track decisions and spending, and she will create real feedback loops—surveys, comment periods, and small-group sessions—that give residents a meaningful role in shaping county policies.