The Alderman's Role
- Represent the interests of constituents
- Write laws
- Provide constituent services
- Serve on committees
- Serve as a community advocate
- Alderman Dixon’s Vision for the 24th Ward
“I ran on a 'positive change' platform, and that’s how I intend to govern.”
Alderman Sharon Denise Dixon envisions a 24th Ward where residents and businesses can prosper in a healthy environment. Her agenda includes:
- Safe, orderly neighborhoods
- Fighting drugs, crime and violence
- Involved leadership that fosters law and order
- Cooperation between citizens and police
- Clean neighborhoods
- Installing new trash cans
- Cleaning up some 2,000 littered, overgrown vacant lots
- Economic development
- Encouraging expanding businesses to hire qualified residents of the 24th Ward
- Fostering development in the area’s prime business locations such as Ogden Avenue, which is historic Route 66, and Albany Avenue
- Supporting the proposed Ogden-Pulaski Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District
- Housing opportunity
- Affordable housing for low-income people
- Reasonably-priced housing for middle class residents
- High-end housing to generate tax revenue that will help fund affordable housing
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