Platform

Public Service, Not Politics

I work for you at our City of Jacksonville. Every day I see where things fall apart, and most of the time it’s not because people don’t care. It’s because the system is built to patch problems instead of solving them. I’m running to change that. Here’s where I’d start.

Affordable Living

Rent is too high. Fees keep creeping up. People who grew up here are getting priced out of their own neighborhoods, and a lot of the folks who keep this city running can’t afford to live in it anymore.

• Support the property tax cut (Florida Amendment 3), WITHOUT holding public services hostage or drastically raising other taxes. If Amendment 3 doesn’t pass, I will work to eliminate the City’s property tax. Here’s how I’ll pay for it.
• Break the JEA monopoly. Revoke the exclusivity clause of their charter, work with Tallahassee to legalize energy choice, revise so board members are elected instead of appointed, and make JEA collect the fees big customers owe, the same way we pay ours.
• A leaner JEA. An outside audit of its spending, contracts, and executive pay, paying down and refinancing its debt, and fighting for better terms on its costly Vogtle nuclear power deal, so the savings show up on your bill.
• Prioritize safe, healthy growth of residential development, at a much faster pace.
• Allow more housing options.
• Improve permitting processes, service, and timelines.
• Support a Neighborhood Bill of Rights.
• Expand ELC child care funding.
• Lower flood insurance costs. Jacksonville is only a Class 6 in FEMA’s flood rating program, so policyholders save 20% at most. Better drainage and floodplain management can move us up the scale, and every class we climb takes another 5% off flood insurance for residents.
• Help families keep the homes they inherit. Too many Jacksonville homes have been passed down without a clear title. That puts families at risk of losing them and locks them out of repair help and loans. I’ll put the City behind the local groups already clearing titles so more families keep what’s theirs.
• More home repair help for seniors. Small grants for roofs, AC, and accessibility so longtime residents can stay in the homes they’ve earned.

Public Safety

You should feel safe walking to your car at night, no matter what part of town you live in. Right now a lot of people don’t.

• Strengthen JSO through strategic funding. Pay and benefits that compete nationally, a fully staffed department, world-renowned Arbinger Institute training, more funding to root out sexual predators, and funding for mental health responders on mental health calls so officers can focus on crime.
• Pass stricter ordinances to prevent sexual predators from re-offending.
• Light up our streets. Add better street lighting where crime is highest. In a New York City study, new lighting cut nighttime outdoor crime by at least 36%.
• Clean up vacant lots and abandoned buildings faster with stronger code enforcement. In Philadelphia, cleaning up vacant lots cut gun violence by 29%.
• Speed up 911 and fire/rescue response, and publish response times by neighborhood so you can see where help is slowest.
• Summer jobs for teens. In Chicago, teens offered a summer job were 43% less likely to be arrested for a violent crime.
• Only fund violence prevention that proves it works. Jacksonville pulled funding from Cure Violence in 2024, and a later report found the program lacked oversight. Every program should have to show results.

Fixed Infrastructure

Over 60 years ago, Jacksonville politicians made promises to fix drainage, pollution, and infrastructure. It’s time we finally fix these basic problems that are holding us back. No more lip service, just action.

• Fix roads and drainage properly instead of patching the same problems year after year.
• Clear, public tracking of repair requests so residents know what’s being done.
• Prioritize neighborhoods that have waited the longest.
• Phase out all old sewer tanks in four years.
• Make our roads safer for drivers and pedestrians. Jacksonville keeps ranking among the most dangerous places in the country to walk. Fix the worst roads with crosswalks, lighting, and traffic calming.
• Be ready before the next storm with better hurricane and flood preparedness.

Why Me

I’m not a career politician. I’m a city employee who got tired of seeing the same problems go unfixed year after year. I know how the City works from the inside, where things go wrong and, most importantly, I know how to actually fix them.

Sources: City of Jacksonville, floodplain management (FEMA flood rating); NBER, street lighting study (New York City); University of Pennsylvania, vacant lot study (Philadelphia); Penn Today, summer jobs study (Chicago); News4JAX, pedestrian safety rankings; News4JAX, Cure Violence funding pulled; News4JAX, Cure Violence report.