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Age
47
Education
Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting
Work experience
25 years of public accounting and corporate leadership experience; current CPA firm owner
Phone Number
8655009952
In my district in rural Tennessee, constituent messaging is clear:
1) They want to maintain local control over unwanted landfills and data centers being built near schools and residences.
2) They want to see an increase in the 2-bedroom rental housing supply to meet any market gaps in demand.
3) They want to see an increase in the number of skilled labor (plumber, electrician, carpenter, mason, mechanic)/remote white collar work/entrepreneurial jobs that will lift average wages over $25/hour without an hour commute to the nearest city.
1) I plan to partner with local commissions and executives and community organizations to adopt the County Powers Act which allows zoning over unincorporated areas, adopt and recommend the state maintain the Jackson Law which allows local government to deny permits approved by TDEC, and implement reasonable municipal zoning..
2) I plan to implement county-specific supply increase goals for 2-bedroom rentals (for example, Scott county should bring 1,000 additional 2-bedroom rentals to the supply) to address waiting lists and rent increases in excess of income recommendations.
3) Once housing supply is balanced, I plan to work with economic development boards and county leaders to attract higher-earning small businesses and remote workers.
In an inflationary environment such as we are navigating today, the state legislature should ensure that its constituents keep pace with higher costs thrust upon them. When constituents pay more for gas, groceries, utilities, property taxes, insurance, healthcare, and other consumer goods the public budgets should also increase by a similar percentage continuously.
The state legislature should also take a proactive review over any pre-existing statutes that might be contributing to inflation for temporary relief (gas or grocery taxes) and resolve to communicate to federal representatives and leaders to take action to address inflationary policies.
Tennessee should eliminate the recently implemented private school voucher scheme totaling more than $150million dollars annually and redirect that to public schools to use for teacher compensation. As a child of public school teachers, they are uniquely qualified to stretch those dollars to the benefit of their students.
I also believe that standardized testing has become overly onerous on school systems being tied to funding that quality education teaching techniques and curricula have been replaced with teaching to the test. I would like to see individual school systems be given more voice and flexibility to adjust testing to the qualitative needs of the students. At the end of the day, teachers can be trusted to deliver results.
Implement the permitting process under the TDEC umbrella and then require data centers to be located in industrial or commercial zoned areas after local approval has been cleared. Data centers are part of our technological progress, but electric and water usage alongside noise and any other nuisance or public health consideration should be addressed prior to the construction of any data centers. The process should be transparent and democratic.
