Jackson Mayor John Horhn issued the following statement.
Mayor John Horhn has appointed Angela Brown as Director of the City of Jackson’s Planning and Development Department, bringing more than 20 years of experience in public health leadership, systems change, and policy innovation to advance growth and community-centered development in Jackson.
Brown is a Jackson native and graduate of Jim Hill High School with deep roots in Georgetown and South Jackson. She returnedhome after two decades in St. Louis, where she served as Chief Executive Officer of the St. Louis Regional Health Commission. She played a key role in the development and implementation of Gateway to Health, a 30-million-dollar-per-year federal initiative in St. Louis City and County.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from StillmanCollege and a Master of Public Health from Saint Louis University.
“Angela Brown brings a proven record of building partnerships, aligning complex initiatives, and centering equity in every decision,” said Mayor Horhn. “Her expertise and her deep roots in Jackson will help us strengthen neighborhoods, guide responsible development, and ensure growth benefits the residents who have sustained this city for generations.”
“Coming home to serve Jackson in this role is an honor and a responsibility,” Brown said. “I am grateful to Mayor Horhn for the opportunity to lead the Planning and Development Department, and I look forward to working alongside residents, developers, and business owners to build a more thriving Jackson.”
Brown previously served as the Innovation Team Director for the City of Jackson, where she helped launch initiatives focused on workforce development and economic inclusion. Her work has leveraged philanthropic and public investment to build local capacity and position Jackson for long-term revitalization.
39 comments:
Should had been Kenneth Stokes or David Archie
Her MPH and biology degrees may help with Jackson's very high VD/STD problem.
What happened to Ms. Ainsworth?
I listened to the meeting. She sounds very intelligent and eager to get started.
"aligning complex initiatives, and centering equity in every decision"
WTF does that even mean ?
John Horhn sounds more like Kamala every day.
Yay!
The mayor chose someone with “0” experience in economic development or planning to be the director. Public Health work experience does not equate to Zoning, Code Enforcement, Housing. Economic development, etc…what favors was paid for her to get that position? Maybe the outgoing Chief of Staff, Willie Bozeman has the answer. Where there’s smoke it’s fire…
She’s a holdover from the Antar Lumumba Administration. Dr. Omari hired/brought her back to Jackson to spearhead that “Bloomberg Grant.” You dropped the ball on this one Horhn…
Leftist woke-speak.
Complex initiatives for a Planning and Zoning Director include citing condemned buildings for razing, convincing council members to adhere to zoning regulations in their districts, convincing Stokes to follow regs on posting and removing campaign signs, tearing down the titty advertisements on billboards in view of children and, of course, maintaining records for public inspection - something indeed complex and rare for any city department.
But, where's the 'centering equity' since the administration is fairly absent of white participation?
And Jackson continues to warmly swirl down the bowl.
Horhn has always been an empty suit. He has no clue and no experience.
She will help the city to be unburdened by what has been.
Jackson is gone, and it’s not coming back. After decades of electing clowns and grifters (dems) the damage is irreparable. Is anyone really surprised that this administration will lack “diversity” just like the last? So we’ll get committees and studies and folks spitting out social justice word salads, and nothing will change. We’ll see mother’s against murder, and Jacksonians against carjacking and they’ll wear special T-shirts and have banners, and nothing will change. The local media will continue to cover for the dem’s incompetence and address everything except the real causes, and nothing will change.
Meanwhile the illegitimacy rate will continue to rise. Crime will continue to be a major issue. JPS will continue to churn out ignorant and illiterate kids, their only knowledge of the English language and grammar are proper pronouns and math is racist, and nothing will change. So I hope all of you that thought this mayor was going to be different are paying attention. He is a democrat and will do what democrats do.
+100,000
New mayor, same as old mayor but in disguise, and does say "right" after every blatant lie.
Most latent progressives do.
I'm still waiting to read about the equity/diversity/inclusive appointments, keeping in mind that white folks are the minority in Jackson.
Horhn appears to have no idea what he is doing, but his tenure in the MS Senate should have told you not to expect much.
Diversity to democrats means no white people.
Let's not forget the balloon releases.
Some of y'all didn't listen. During his campaign I penned multiple times that if elected he would be "new mayor same as old mayor." The only difference is that new mayor doesn't insert "right?" after every one of his lies.
Say what you will about Mayor Hohrn, but one would find longer odds that Horhn will be on video visiting a nude cigar bar with FBI cameras recording him with the marked bills he had been paid with.
I hope that this does not surprise anyone. And its not going to get any better in the future..
More trendy coffee and finger food places for the young professional class hipsters are an essential.
That and more and desireable downtown housing or the losing continues!
Noty much will hap[pen otherwise!
It does not appear to be a good hire but it's got to be some improvement albeit not much. This department has been helping to usher business out of Jackson for years maybe it will be a little more business friendly. Likely not, but let's see.
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Hohrn has to fix with a city that has been a circus since Frank Melton was mayor.
Ol' Chowke has been very quiet lately, but maybe he is focused on his next grift.
I’m noticing a theme.
Businesses leaving Jackson is an economic development problem not a healthcare problem.
they need that less than a director of interplanetary relations
Just what Jackson needs a healthcare bureaucrat pushing "DEI favored" economic inclusion another positive solution for the win!
Six months in and the Horhn administration is already out of gas.
I hope she does well. As weird as this sounds, I’ve always been pleasantly surprised at how helpful and knowledgeable the employees in that department are. But speaking of planning and zoning, there will come a point at some time in the future when literally thousands of home owners will realize that the adoption of the 2024 ordinance turned their homes into Legal Non-Conforming status overnight, possibly jeopardizing their ability to obtain financing on that property. And the homes can’t be rebuilt in compliance, because the lot itself is now out of compliance due to size, width, etc. The new ordinance specifically states that maintaining the status-quo is not the goal. I understand that the long-term vision is to cause developers to buy entire blocks and rebuild according to the master plan, but that’s no help to the average owner that might have to shop around for a lender that is willing to lend money on an asset that would require a variance (that is in no way guaranteed) in order to be rebuilt if destroyed by an act of God. A few of the surrounding towns have done something similar, so Jackson isn’t unique in this problem, but Jackson doesn’t currently have many investors looking to purchase entire blocks to develop.
The question is when the next mayoral election comes around, and Jackson continues to decline, will Horhn be re-elected? I predict he will.
Fix the unbusiness friendly mechanical, plumbing and electrical permits application process which holds up everything and maybe we can discuss voting.
I hope so. He is doing a damn great job....
Jackson has employed at least fifteen Planning and Zoning Office directors since Kane Ditto was mayor.
The only job title that approaches that amount of turnover is Police Chief. I recommend a well funded study to determine what the problem here might be.
Horhn's assignment of quality personnel means: Taking tough job assignments, previously unaccomplished, and finding the right DEI candidate who can be slud into the position. In other words, putting square pegs in round holes and hoping for the best pseudo-fit. Key-word: Equity.
Meanwhile: Up in Madison County, a year ago, Supervisor Karl Banks slid his unemployed daughter in law into the Planning and Zoning Department with the goal being to eliminate the current Director and elevate his DIL to the leadership role.
Her previous experience was running the county garbage department which had been eliminated by a newly elected Board in 2015.
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