As mayor, I’m committed to bringing integrity and transparency in the office by:
- The Mayor Sets the Agenda: I’ll continue the Monday Minute; hold regular press conferences; advance open meetings policy; and increase accessibility of public documents and engagement opportunities.
- The Mayor Oversees Council Meetings & Decorum: I’ll end the regularly-scheduled, behind-the-scenes Council check-in meetings; and shift to a public pre-meeting process.
- The Mayor Single-Handedly Appoints the Housing Authority Board, which oversees neighborhoods with 1,700+ deeply-affordable housing units: I’ll maintain communications with Housing Authority residents, resident councils, and staff, partnering in violence prevention and improving quality of life.
- The Mayor Serves on the Economic Development Coalition: I’ll bring integrity and transparency to the Mayor’s seat on the Economic Development Coalition, leveraging living wages, union-supportive jobs, infrastructure investments, and climate resilience including partnerships in carbon reduction. For example: I voted against the anticipated Amazon distribution warehouse that Council approved in closed session, but it failed at the bank, so now I’m advocating for multimodal & park infrastructure, neighborhood traffic issues, and living wages for a Costco at that location instead.
- The Mayor Appoints Council Sub-Committees and Liaisons: These appointments, including regional boards like: the Metropolitan Planning Organization that oversees state-maintained roads; the ABC Board; and the Regional Housing Consortium.
- Leading by Example: During Helene, I worked shoulder to shoulder in emergency response–getting the Incident Management Team here from NYC to relieve our firefighters, organizing daily communication distribution into neighborhoods, flushing toilets for disabled and elderly residents, and convening intergovernmental teams to support staff and community response. I’m committed to violence prevention, including a Mayor’s Youth Council focused on reducing gun violence, and I support bringing advisory boards back instead of dissolving them.
I can’t do this work along, but together we can Be ‘Bout it Being Better.