Objectives

  • We will create safe neighborhoods by

    • Bringing JPD staffing to 400 well equipped officers

    • Strictly enforce state gun laws, immediately arresting perpetrators who illegally discharge firearms, illegally brandish firearms, and carry concealed weapons on their person without a holster and without a permit.

    • Launch operation CLEAN SWEEP partnering with JPD, Capital Police, DEA, and Hinds County Sheriffs to target known places of nuisance, trap houses, and areas with repeated 911 calls with search warrants and shutting down any place that is operating illegally or allowing crime to occur on their premises. This includes clubs and bars.

    • Aggressively combat squatting, and prosecute those who set fires to buildings. This will be handled on a case by case basis, if we discover mental health disorders to be a cause of the behavior then steps will be taken to get that individual assistance rather than jail time.

    • Continue targeted patrols in high crime areas while working towards community policing rotations where residents can become familiar with their officers.

    • Engage HOAs to form neighborhood watch programs

    • Increase use of Shot Spotter technology in residential areas to help quickly identify gunfire, it’s direction, and dispatch police to the scene

    • Hire more 911 operators, conduct advanced training for current and new hires, increase customer service for 911 operators, and conduct quarterly performance evaluations of 911 operators to ensure the highest standards of excellence and service are being followed

    • Strengthen our enforcement of animal codes and hold animal control accountable for doing their jobs.

    • Assign JPD patrols to issue moving violations for stop signs, traffic lights, and J walking across the city.

    • Eliminate the “blue light” practice which alerts criminals to the presence of police by keeping their blue lights on steady when patrolling.

    • Eliminate the “no chase” policy in JPD which prohibits officers from pursuing fleeing suspects

    • Hire a public works director within the first 100 days of office

    • Hire a qualified lead civil engineer within the first 100 days

    • Shift city policy to pave with concrete, and remove coal mix asphalt patching from our public works and replace it with high quality patching solutions that are weather resistant.

    • Create a flood mitigation initiative and focus on a systematic redesign of our roadways to include additional storm drainage solutions, including paving some roads with permeable concrete where it is feasible.

    • Secure grants, federal and state funds, county, and private funding to repave and improve roadways in high traffic areas, as well as neighborhoods.

    • Prioritize the addition of sidewalks in thoroughfares and neighborhoods to keep pedestrians safe and allow more walkability throughout the city.

    • Increase streetlighting across the city, especially main thoroughfares and use solar powered lights

    • Collaborate with churches, non profits, and individuals to create mentorship programs for youth and young adults in the city

    • Partner with organizations to create family centers with after hour services for troubled and at risk youth who are out after curfew, and all youth and families to use during regular hours

    • Attract new entertainment to the city, specifically South and West Jackson by bringing racetracks, airjump parks, paintball parks, video game lounges, and event venues.

    • Partner with churches to reach youth who are not members but are in their general vicinity. Assign each church a designated area to target their efforts with mentorship, counseling, transportation assistance, and internships.

    • Create internship programs with businesses and non profits (including churches) across the city where youth can begin a pathway to a career, and potentially make income

    • Hire youth to work with city beautification efforts and code enforcement. Offer youth internships in the City Government.

    • Create a domestic intervention taskforce to answer calls instead of police for domestic disputes and family related issues. These will be trained mental health professionals and social workers who can work to mediate disputes and provide solutions in non violent situations without getting law enforcement involved; providing more comfort and trust to the family who is trying to get help without fear of going to jail.

    • Advocate for increased funding for JPS, target truancy by holding schools and parents accountable for absent students, and increase after school opportunities for students

    • Upgrade the city website to include all relevant information to residents including city council minutes and department contact information.

    • Create a city app that is fully functional and includes shortcuts to contact city departments, simple pothole and code enforcement reporting, and a direct messaging system for those who cannot call or are hearing impaired.

    • Create a project dashboard in the website and app that allow residents to track the progress of city projects, their spending, and their timelines. We will also make contracts easily accessible at no charge to the public.

    • Build a new, technologically advanced City Hall, with an auditorium for large public meetings and more efficient use of technology. Declare the old City Hall a historic building and use it as a museum for city history.

    • Invest in more dark fiber across the city, especially in commercially zoned areas

    • Invest in solar power solutions, for street lights, power grid, and residential homes

    • Invest in smart traffic systems, to improve traffic flow and safety on the roads

    • Invest in smart infrastructure that allows us to perform informed maintenance and more affectively monitor the status of our roads and water systems

    • Invest in AI training, and development, and incorporate AI into city government

    • Work to attract shovel ready investments for data centers and large businesses like Amazon and Google

    • Bring JSU to the next stage of their Research classification and secure funding to increase research

    • Partner with Dr. Natalie Sephus to create a tech district in Jackson

    • Use concrete and long term patching solutions and set aside a fund for future improvements and repairs that can’t be touched for at least 15 years called the “Future Fund”.

    • Launch an initiative to partner with Entergy to bury all power lines in neighborhood areas to mitigate risks of house damage and power outages from falling trees and power lines.

    • Bring a Pearl River Project to fruition that prioritizes flood mitigation while creating real estate along the river.

    • Responsibly phase out 1% taxes, and lower property taxes as revenue increases

    • Create business incentive zones with tax credits, and at least one year property tax free for business making long term commitments and investments into our development zones, such as south and west Jackson.

    • Bring higher paying skilled labor jobs coupled with increased workforce development programs to raise the value of our workforce and bring livable wage jobs to residents in every ward

    • Streamline the business permit process, and building permit process to make businesses more inclined to build here

    • Eliminate the business license fee to stimulate small businesses to plant their business here in Jackson

    • Gradually lower property taxes to increase savings for potential homebuyers

    • Launch a program where city owned properties and surplus properties are sold for pennies on the dollar to investors and first time homebuyers who will commit to maintaining, renovating, or redeveloping them. Require those who apply for this program to be residents of Jackson, or committed to Jackson for the next 10 years.

    • Create a youth council that meets quarterly to give input on city initiatives and plans; and offer advice on how our plans will relate to their generation and how we can best include and serve them.

    • Create a Neighborhood Council of leaders from each neighborhood in the city that meets quarterly to give input on city projects, improvements, and concerns.

    • Meet biweekly with the city council as a whole to discuss plans, seek input, and gain insight on resident concerns from their wards

    • Meet monthly one on one with city council members to discuss their plans, needs, and resident concerns for their ward

    • Host at least one town hall meeting per month all across the city in every ward.

    • Host at least one weekly press conference per week to inform residents on progress, plans, and any relevant information.

    • Offer voter education resources, workshops, and livestreams

    • Include voter information and candidate info on the city website and app

    • Launch a My City My Story campaign to gather historic records and stories from residents across the city and preserve them physically and digitally at City Hall. Create a City History page on the webside and app. Turn the current city hall building into a history museum and build a new city hall with a modern design and technology

    • Offer city owned unused and blighted buildings to non profits and churches for the purpose of creating emergency, transitional, and permanent housing solutions for the homeless, single parents, troubled women, veterans, and elderly.

    • Bring community developments for veterans and offer tax incentives to investors who create veteran communities.

    • Require all non profit recipients of government funding add a work stipulation to their housing and feeding solutions for able bodied and able minded individuals.

    • Strengthen and enforce state laws and city ordinances to end panhandling so we can identify the true homeless community.

    • Require those who are homeless due to drugs to be submitted to a rehab

    • Partner with local churches to fund housing and work programs for homeless population

    • Partner with local organizations and businesses to hire homeless and offer temporary housing and transportation assistance and contingent on employee performance.

    • Partner with churches, mental health professionals, non profits, and businesses to create a pathway to success for the homeless. Starting with shelter and food, mental and educational health evaluations, workforce development and training, employment, and a pathway to home ownership

    • Create a voucher program to provide free bus transportation to qualifying homeless individuals who can prove they are gainfully employed.

    • Partner with local restaurants and industrial businesses to #hirehomeless

    • Work to create 24 hour restrooms and sleep shelters across the city

    • Enforce all laws and ordinances with homeless population who violate laws and ordinances with acts such as indecent exposure, disturbing the peace, public intoxication, and harassment. Use this as an opportunity to direct non violent individuals to resources for mental health, medical care, rehab, and recovery.

    • Partner with local restaurants and local charitable organizations to collect all leftover food items that would normally be wasted from food businesses.

    • Invest in restoration of parks and green spaces

    • Partner with organizations in the city to create family resource centers with space for nursing mothers and children. These spaces will not only offer play spaces but parenting classes, family therapy, counseling, parenting classes, financial management, homeownership, conflict resolution and more.

    • Launch an initiative to partner with businesses and employers around the city to create spaces for nursing mothers, and for on the job childcare so parents (especially single parents) can work without losing hundreds of dollars per month on childcare.

    • 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 create new veterans housing communities with special financing and tax breaks

    • We will work to design a “veteran’s district” in the city with housing, entertainment, and historic locations built around our service members. My goal is to have this district as close to the VA as possible.

    • Launch an offensive campaign to eliminate blight in neighborhoods by either demolishing abandoned and burned buildings, or working with individuals, non profits and churches to rehab the buildings and repurpose them to serve our community and the homeless.

    • Partner with churches and non profits to secure private funding toward blight elimination projects, and the rehab of these spaces including creating green spaces, community centers, and housing solutions for the homeless.

    • Strictly enforce littering codes, including adding mandatory supervised community service in addition to fines for misdemeanors to clean up the city.

    • Secure funding and partnerships to begin placing neighborhoods trash cans around the city, which will be maintained by those neighborhoods and collected by our trash contractors.

    • Create more recycling locations and work on a plan to offer recycle pickup from our garbage contractors and offer a recycling program for residents including tires

    • Create a public works taskforce to immediately begin addressing clogged storm drains, overgrown and fallen trees, and partner with private citizens and non profits to do the work as well.

    • Place cameras in areas where frequent dumping occurs, and prosecute dumpers to the fullest extent of the law

    • Assign a JPD patrol to target littering offenses and immediately engage active littering and issue citations and potential arrests.

    • Partner with parents to get youth involved in community cleanups, even offering paid incentives for their services.

    • Partner with neighborhoods and businesses to add large trashcans at the entrances and exits of each neighborhood, and have public trash cans on city property around the city to deter littering.

    • Secure additional funding for JPS, and ensure equitable allocations to each school, without favoritism to schools that have the highest grades.

    • Bring career and leadership mentors to each school campus from k-12 to college with career internships integrated with the curriculum especially coding and AI technology and learning.

    • Push for full funding under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) to ensure Jackson schools receive their fair share of state resources.

    • Seek federal grants for infrastructure improvements, technology upgrades, and teacher training.

    • Promote public-private partnerships to supplement funding for school improvements, after-school programs, and scholarships.

    • Prioritize spending on modern classroom technology, updated textbooks, and school infrastructure repairs.

    • Increase funding for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) programs to prepare students for high-paying careers.

    • Implement a publicly accessible dashboard showing JPS performance metrics, including student achievement, graduation rates, and teacher retention.

    • Require quarterly progress reports from JPS leadership on improvements in test scores, teacher recruitment, and student discipline.

    • Establish Parent Advisory Councils in each school to ensure families have a voice in decision-making.

    • Host monthly town halls where parents and teachers can meet with school administrators and city officials to discuss concerns and progress.

    • Implement the use of AI to streamline teacher and faculty’s workflow and make classes and schedules more efficient.

    • Advocate for higher teacher salaries and performance-based incentives to attract and retain high-quality educators.

    • Offer housing assistance programs for teachers willing to work in underserved schools.

    • Create new workforce development programs and internships to match residents with opportunities within a few miles of their home.

    • Invest in customer service training for city employees, and implement customer service training into JPS and local colleges.

    • Partner with businesses to offer higher wages, incentives, and even housing and transportation benefits to make retaining long term commitments from workers more attainable.

    • Evaluate city departments and consolidate unnecessary positions and salaries.

    • Strongly enforce employee standards and policies and ensure time is being effectively managed by staff

    • Utilize the Covenant Political HR management software with AI to create a more streamlined, efficient, and future ready system for HR management and conflict resolution.

    • Create solutions to flooding under bridges such as the Monument Bridge and downtown areas

    • Invest in new storm drainage solutions

    • Invest in permeable concrete for low traffic roads in frequently flooded areas

    • Work to develop the Pearl River, into useable waterfront property while diverting flooding from homes in west and south Jackson

    • Develop Lake Hico into a thriving multifaceted hub in the city

    • Add parkways north to south connecting Livingston road, and east to west to allow better traffic flow as we grow.

    • Build waterfront property, a large park attraction, make the entire area walkable with sidewalks and bikeable with bike trails

    • Bring a large performance venue and ample parking

    • Develop a business district within Hico similar to The District at Eastover but unique to that area

    • Bring market value housing projects with green spaces and community centers to the area

    • Target specific neighborhood blocks for revitalization, and build a model where every neighborhood has a grocery store, green space, and community garden

    • Offer block grants to neighborhoods targeted for revitalization to improve facades, build fences, and repair homes and properties.

    • Turn city owned and surplus properties into community farms and gardens.

    • Plant a family center/rec center within 1 mile of every community

    • Stop spending money we don’t have, limit our use of bonds, and focus on more effectively allocating our current resources

    • Begin paying past due invoices and debts, and regain our reputation as a city that does good business

    • Bring our state audit current from the past two years

    • Conduct a third party forensic audit to identify and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in every department

    • Implement new training and HR policies with new software to lower instances of wrongful termination lawsuits and civil right violations that cost us money.

    • Reallocate money from the state tort fund to be more efficiently spent

    • Ensure proper investigations of claims against the city to ensure the city only pays claims for the damages for which we are liable

    • Plant community gardens across the city and amend zoning regulations to allow all Zones to include natural vegetation, gardening, and farming.

    • Work to attract and bring wholistic natural birthing centers to Jackson

    • Lobby the state to include organic and healthful foods in WIC programs.

    • Partner with churches and non profits and JPS to offer natural whole foods and meals to students.

    • Create green spaces and rest areas throughout the city

    • Eliminate harmful foods with dyes, sugars, seed oils, and non organic synthetic products and flavoring (natural & artificial) from all city funded facilities and programs including JPS.

    • Increase and advertise farmers markets across the city.

    • Offer tax incentives to food businesses that will sell grass fed products, organic whole foods, and locally grown non GMO organic food products

    • Partner with churches, non profits, and secure grants to offer free water filters to residents

    • Create grounding areas across the city for safe, clean, barefoot grounding including public greenspaces

    • Offer mental/emotional therapy and counseling to city employees at no cost to them including JPD.

    • Build a gym for city employees and offer gym memberships or discounts to city employees including JPD

    • Lobby to bring healthy, vegan, whole food, and nature and locally sourced food restaurants and grocery stores to Jackson

    • Offer payment assistance to seniors on fixed budgets for tag renewals, licenses, and government related charges

    • Build more senior communities and partner with developers to create communal spaces and entertainment options for those communities.

    • Offer technology training for elders and senior citizens and support

    • Work to bring a Pearl River Project to downtown and south Jackson that solves flooding, and creates valuable water front real estate to develop residential, commercial, and recreational opportunities for the city.

    • Create beachfront property in downtown Jackson

    • Hold our government officials accountable to ensure any project on the river does not increase flooding downstream, and offers mitigation to the rest of Jacksonians around the project.