About

Michelle S. Proctor

Councilor, District 4, Lipscomb AL

I am Michelle Proctor, Lipscomb City Councilmember representing District 4. I am seeking your vote next Tuesday, August 25,2020 for re-election. I want to continue to help move Lipscomb into financial independence and safety.

I would love to go door to door to meet each of you, to hear from you, and to personally ask for your vote. As a former EMT, however, I understand the dangers posed to us from COVID.

I could not risk the health of the wonderful people of District 4 by doing something as dangerous as going door to door. I hope you understand, and will provide my contact information below so can reach out to me.

Before I was a council member I was a single mother of two girls. I had some pretty bad statistics to beat. No father, making minimum wage. I was being told by society that my children would fail. They are both grown now and are amazingly successful young ladies.

I do not believe in statistics. I believe in making our own statistics. I know what Lipscomb is capable of. We are an amazing assortment of people from all backgrounds. I am not willing to let someone that has never lived here tell us what we can and can not live up to.

I was an EMT for 15 years for private ambulance companies. I volunteered in the fire department for many years as an EMT to give back to the community. I know more about first responders and their protocols than the average person due to my time working as an EMT and I want to continue using my knowledge to help improve the public safety departments here in Lipscomb. As the current head of the Public Safety committee I have worked hard to improve our police and fire departments, and want to continue that work.

I am also a firm believer that the more our children are involved in positive activities, the more confident and educated they become, and the more likely they are to do the right thing when tempted with the chance to make the choice between right and wrong.

As an avid amateur astronomer, I appreciate the value of science. During the Great American Solar Eclipse I bought Solar glasses for all the staff and students at Lipscomb Elementary School. I wanted to be sure our children all had the chance to see that there are wonders in the world around us.

Using our telescopes my husband and I have also given many children the chance to see the craters on the moon, rings on Saturn, Moons of Jupiter, Ice on Mars and even taught them how to spot the space station flying overhead. I love to see children looking up and taking interest in science, in life.

The ongoing pandemic has been very hard on families. Children are going to be home more and more. This is something new to all of us and I believe we should come together during this time and keep our children occupied and educated. It would be too easy to let them get lost in times like this.

I would love to work to create family activities that could happen in a safe way. A way that is fun but still respects the social distancing rules. For example, I believe a movie night, outdoors at a park, could be done safely. I’d love to work with other parents in the community to find more fun ideas.

Some of the things I want to work on, or continue working on…

  • Provide essential gear and equipment for police and fire department to help them safely keep our city and our citizens protected.
  • I will continue to fight to improve our fire rating, so that our homeowners insurance will go down. We are all feeling that pain.
  • From my EMT experience I understand how important good health is. That’s why I volunteered many times at the free medical checks that were held at the fire department, and I want to ensure these continue in the future.
  • Continue working on having all the roads paved. I want every street in the city to be in good condition.
  • Along with the roads themselves are the conditions on the sides of the road. I want to fight for our district to have roads that are not grown over on either side, or tree limbs so low over the road that you can’t pass. We should have more then just the area in front of city hall maintained.
  • The pandemic has taught me that my generation has lost many life skills. I would like to set up a program that we can teach each other, especially our youth. Things like finances, taxes, sewing, cooking, checking fluids in a car. There is knowledge everyone has in the city that we can share with each other and with our children.
  • An item very important to me, and I suspect to you as well, is to see that the city government has complete transparency. We got a start during my first term, but there is still much to be done. We work for you! You have every right to know what is going on in the city. If crime is up, if one of our contracted utilities go up in cost, if we do something amazing or we fail… you have the right to know.

The list goes on. I want to continue to use the knowledge I have gained about government operations during the last 4 years to continue to fight to rise above where we are. I hope I can count on your vote on Tuesday, August 25th, 2020 so together we can work for a better Lipscomb.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me. You can email me at Lipscombdistrict4@gmail.com or michelle@councilorproctor.com.