Mission

Accessibility. Accountability. Affordability.

These three goals are the foundation of my platform to transform our great city of Jackson into a city where EVERY dream has a home.

Accessibility

  • Safe Homes and Neighborhoods:

    • Expand affordable housing initiatives and ensure all residents have access to safe, stable living conditions. Improve and enforce building codes that ensure a high standard of safety and quality of life.

    • Improve community policing and neighborhood patrols to make streets safer for families and businesses. Improve response time to 911 calls from homeowners.

    • Improve street lighting to increase safety when walking after dark, visibility of property, and deter criminals and allow them to be more easily identified on any security camera footage.

  • Safe Streets and Convenient Travel:

    • Develop reliable, secure public transportation options including expanding JTRAN routes across Jackson and maintain well-lit streets and crosswalks for pedestrian safety.

    • Make immediate repairs to existing potholes using quality materials, and work to repave deteriorating roads with reinforced concrete rather than cheap asphalt.

    • Repair all damaged traffic lights and create a maintenance plan to replace future lights systematically so they don’t all start going bad at the same time.

    • Prioritize the addition of sidewalks on major roads like Northside Dr to protect pedestrians from harm and create another means of travel for walkers and bikers on busy roads.

  • Access to Essential Services:

    • We will partner with Entergy to identify needed repairs and upgrades to protect the power grid and avoid outages. This includes working to bury power lines in heavily wooded areas and areas where trees can fall on power lines.

    • Partner with JPS to secure increased funding, and hold them accountable for truant students and parent participation.

    • We will work to make sure every resident can access healthcare (including mental health), and find more holistic and natural medicine and practices as well. We want to attract more midwives, doulas, and natural birth centers to the city.

    • We will partner with JXN Water to ensure residents have access to clean water in every area of the city, and work to hold Atmos and JXN water accountable for when they make repairs and roads are not properly repaired.

    • We will Provide user-friendly online platforms including our website and social media pages for residents to access city resources, request public records, and submit feedback.

    • We will build a city app that contains all the information on the website plus additional functionality such as quick pothole and traffic light reporting and a direct messaging system.

    • Publish city council minutes, meeting agendas, and public notices in a timely, transparent manner.

    • Increase customer service availability at City Hall with trained staff ready to assist residents in navigating city services.

    • Improve production quality of city meetings and announcements to allow more people to engage and also understand the information and watch online.

    • Move city council meetings back to 6pm so working residents can attend them.

Accountability

    • Create a “City Progress Dashboard” that allows residents to track progress on public safety, housing, and infrastructure initiatives. This will be available on the website and the app.

    • Require all city departments to publish quarterly performance reports.

    • Limit executive session during council meetings to only the most private legal matters. Avoid executive session at all costs.

    • Establish neighborhood advisory councils to give residents a formal voice in shaping city policies. This includes a youth council, and councils with members from each neighborhood in each ward. We will partner with City Council members to manage these councils.

    • Commit to a biweekly meeting with every City Council member to discuss their Ward’s needs.

    • Commit to a quarterly meeting with each of our citizen councils.

    • Commit to a weekly press briefing no matter what to answer questions and provide updates.

    • Commit to a monthly town hall where residents can be informed of progress, and share concerns and ask questions from city leadership.

    • Immediately hire a firm to conduct our past due annual audits.

    • Conduct a forensic audit of our departments powered by AI technology.

    • Assign an independent review of city records and police reports, including body cam footage to regularly monitor performance and ensure city staff and JPD/JFD officers are following laws and policies and adhering to established performance standards.

Affordability

    • We will work to secure lower rates from utility companies and bring new business to provide options to residents for their energy.

    • We will develop a comprehensive plan to responsibly lower property taxes for residents and to create tax breaks for businesses.

    • We will work to phase out the 1% infrastructure tax by responsibly managing resources and proactively collecting on other revenue sources more efficiently.

    • We will work to lower the convention center/tourism tax and progressively phase it out based on our revenue.

    • We will create “Business Incentive Zones” in areas like South Jackson where we need immediate development by offering them city owned property at bargain rates, and offering some businesses a minimum of one year property tax free in exchange for significant investment and a long term commitment to the community.

    • We will partner with city departments, county departments, local businesses, schools, and churches to create workforce development programs and internships to create immediate pathways to careers and income for residents - focusing on finding them opportunities within one mile of their home and community.

    • Increase access to affordable childcare and early education programs to reduce financial burdens on working parents.

    • We will partner with county agencies, churches, and non profits to provide financial relief to those who cannot afford to renew their tags or vehicle insurance, at times issuing a “Hardship Exemption” to allow families struggling financially to continue traveling safely to their jobs and appointments while working on a pathway to payment.

    • We will create new incentives and designated development programs for veterans, ensuring they have access to every necessary resource including assistance with affordable housing, transportation, and medical treatment.

    • We will invest in non profits and churches who offer transitional and permanent housing for the homeless.

    • We will prioritize our healthy homeless community for workforce development programs across the city.

    • We will repurpose and rehab blighted and abandoned building in usable condition with the help of non profits and churches to offer temporary housing, and affordable housing with pathways to ownership and job opportunities within 5 miles of their home, with transportation assistance.