Meet Jamie

Proposition P&F

• • Jamie supports Proposition Police & Fire, a continuation of the Proposition B tax, to ensure that our first responders are paid well, to reduce turnover, and to retain knowledge and talent. Firefighters should not have to work insane amounts of overtime and miss time with their family because of staffing issues due to low pay.

Camping Ordinance

• • Jamie opposes the 2025 revision to the Joplin camping ordinance, which not only punishes houseless people for camping in parks, but also punishes them for having their "worldly belongings" on them, such as a sleeping bag or clothes. This ordinance forces the nearly 150 people that can't fit in a traditional shelter to seek it in places that are unsafe and hidden and it makes them less likely to engage with law enforcement and city government when a crime has been committed against them. Revising or eliminating the camping ordinance and creating an outreach group between the city and the police department to repair relationships and trust will make our community safer. 

Affordability

• • The City Council's priority should be to support the working people of Joplin, because Joplin residents, and visitors, pay some of the highest sales taxes and utility bills in the state. We need to figure out ways the city government can alleviate the burden being placed on Joplin citizens and make it easier for them to pay their bills and put food on the table; whether that's lowering the local food sales tax or addressing the cost of utility bills.

• Housing

  • Joplin is suffering from an affordable housing drought, and we need to be looking into what exactly the city can do to help with that. Whether the solution is to annex new land and partner with local organizations and companies to build new, affordable units, or punishing property owners who have long-term vacancies or homes that are dilapidated and can't be lived in, or applying for grants that can be put towards increasing the amount given on housing vouchers or rental assistance. The city needs to do what we can to raise the bar and make sure that Joplin is a place where college graduates and working-class people can afford to live.

• Joplin First

  • The Joplin City Council should be putting Joplin first. All contracts should be filled by a Joplin-based company to make sure that the tax-dollars that company is receiving are circulating back into the community and employing residents, not going to other states and countries. If a Joplin-based company doesn't bid on a project, we should reach out to them directly and ask them to; we shouldn't be giving our tax-dollars to companies in other states and countries when we have local businesses on Main Street that do the same thing.

Accountability

• Jamie has made a commitment to voters that when she is in city council, she will not vote for anything that the community expresses widespread outrage in. She is accountabile to the voters, not to any one group or company.

Transparency

• The Joplin City Council is untransparent. It should be the job of the city government to educate the citizens on complex issues and give them as much information as possible, especially if it is something that could effect negatively effect their bills.

• Joplin citizens deserve to know where exactly their money is going, and Jamie is committed to finding a way to educate every Joplin resident on the city budget.