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2006 Campaign Platform

5 Point Plan

• Economic Development
• Excellence In Education
• Health and Wellness
• Caring for our Seniors and Youth
• Safety and Security for our neighborhoods and city

Since January 8, 2007

THE MAYOR’S INITIATIVES and SUPPORT

• The Pastors, Parents Educational Support Association (PPESA), works to provide a church liaison with students in the McComb School District.

• Preventive Entry and Ex-Offender Re-Entry Services (PEERS) designed to help one-time offenders find financial opportunities, jobs and counseling.

• Operations Strict Enforcement (OSE) – The policy increased patrol and police presence in high-crime areas; enforcement of ordinances concerning loud music, junk and abandoned vehicles, open alcohol, loitering and curfew; more monitoring of speeding; more roadblocks; and enforcement of fire and building codes.

• The Network To Support (NET) – An initiative to support families with love ones who are incarcerated. This initiative offers support services to family members who have a love one in the correctional system. Group sessions, transportation as well as understanding the correctional system as it applies to their lives are offered.

• McComb-Smoke Free – McComb joins other cities in a smoke free environment, November 15, 2007

• Wastewater Treatment Facility – After 15 years of neglect and patching the problem, on January 18, 2007 the mayor scheduled a wastewater treatment facility meeting for all area businesses to begin plans for building this long over due problem. Inherited from the previous administration, the problem has become a $34million dollar environmental mandate to have completed by 2010.

• McComb Sports Park, the mayor has supported the sports park since the beginning of his administration. He has encouraged community’s support and encouraged organizations to utilized the availability of the sports park for meetings, events and workshops. The building of the McComb Sports Park has received mixed feelings and support from community members.

• Bo Diddley Blues Marker – The late Bo Diddley was a native of McComb, Mississippi. The mayor and citizens of McComb honored Bo Diddley with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail during McComb’s Camellia City Festival, November 2007.

• The Model Contractor Development Program designed to teach small construction contractors the business practices they need to improve company operations and increase bonding capacity.  A Certificate of Completion is presented to participants who successfully complete the educational component of the program.  The purpose of this program is to prepare contractors in McComb and Southwest Mississippi to have the necessary requirements to bid on the upcoming wastewater treatment facility soon to be built in McComb. Mayor Zach Patterson wishes to maintain jobs in McComb and the Southwest area of Mississippi.

• Mayor’s Youth Council, involving youth in local government and leadership training.

• McComb City Employees have received substantial pay adjustments: Police, Fire Departments; Director of Departments, city employees, Judicial employees and City Administrator.

MAYOR’S FIRST IN THE CITY OF MCCOMB

• 1st black majority city board – in history

• 1st black majority school board

• 1st major pay adjustment for all city employees including judicial employees