• Froze Taxes for Senior Citizens
• Expanding more than 100 major thoroughfares throughout Collin County
• Began six-lane expansion of SH 121
• Began the construction of overpasses on SH 121
• Worked with cities, schools and nonprofits to create more than $20 million in parks programs
• Assisted in establishing a new electronic voting system
• Worked to add more than 600 jail beds and assisted in the establishment of 6 additional courts
• Aggressive oiling and ashpalting program on county roads
• Providing drop off sites for rural residents to bring debris
• No tax rate increase in 8 years
• Collin County Completed Bond Projects
  

• Fund SH 121 main lanes
• Extend the Dallas North Tollway to the Grayson County Line
• Widen US 380 through Farmersville to the Hunt County Line
• Extend DART rail into northern Collin County
• Create recycling program for rural residents
• Maintain stable tax rate
• Working with TXDOT on a 121/75 interchange
• Consolidate Public Works facilities in the unincorporated area
• Continued partnerships with cities for both road expansion and park preservation
• Partner with TXDOT on the reconstruction of FM 545
• Increase funding for volunteer fire departments
• Widen US 75 through McKinney to the Grayson County Line
• Collin County 2003 Bond Projects
  

• 2005 Collin County Rural Road Projects
• 2004 Collin County Rural Road Projects
• Collin County Outer Loop Route Study
  
• 10 Year Asphalt Program
• Future Dallas North Tollway Extension
• Collin County Thoroughfare Plan
• 2003 Collin County Bond Package

• North Central Texas Council of Governments
• National Association of Counties
• Texas Association of Counties
• North and East Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association
• Conference of Urban Counties
• Collin County Health Care Board of Directors
• Collin County Housing Finance Corporation

Joe and his wife, Shelley, have lived in Collin County since 1987. Shelley is a reading recovery teacher at Curtsinger Elementary in Frisco. Joe and Shelley have two children, Treyson (26) and Arielle (14). Treyson is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, and Arielle attends Wester Middle School in Frisco.

• Member, First United Methodist Church, Allen
• Graduate, Leadership McKinney, Leadership Allen and Leadership Plano
• Member, McKinney Rotary
• Member, Allen, McKinney, Greater Celina, Farmersville and Princeton Chambers of Commerce
• Republican Precinct Chair, 1992-1996
• Member, North Collin County Republican Men's Club
• Member, Collin County Republican Men's Club
• Delegate, Republican County Convention
• Alternate, Republican State Convention
• Columnist, "The County Line" (monthly column that runs in eight area newspapers)