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Campaign TV - Walker Worthy for Mayor of Trenton

Worthy to Serve, Prepared to Lead

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WALKER WORTHY JR. Jobs and Economy PLATFORM

Jobs and Economy

• Use my experience and relationships with key state and county officials to create public/private partnerships and promote the benefit of doing business in Trenton.
• Utilize apprenticeship opportunities, including a Second Chance program for ex-offenders, to provide residents with marketable job skills while attracting businesses with a skilled labor pool.
• Aggressively pursue revenue and funding opportunities to maintain municipal infrastructures.
• Ensure all pending and future development provides a long-term benefit to the city.
• Create a “prompt payment” policy that ensures contractors with the city will be paid in a timely manner, allowing small business to better compete for work with the city.
• Establish a Redevelopment Authority and work with inspections, planning and zoning departments to get development projects fast-tracked.
• Bring vacant land back into use as a source to generate revenue, including the development of the waterfront to create new jobs and bring in tourism.
• Foster and develop a heritage tourism industry. Build on the successes of Patriots Week and capitalize on Trenton’s significance in American history.
• Work with local banks to take advantage of civic investment and financing opportunities through the federal Community Reinvestment Act.
• Establish and maintain “round-table” forums with business and labor stakeholders, in order to share valuable insight and advice on economic and job issues as they arise.
• Establish a division of contract compliance to enforce, for the benefit of job seekers and wage earners, the contractual promise of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity required of those who do business with the city of Trenton.

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TRENTON NEEDS A LEADER. CHECK HIS WORK. HE'S THE MERCER COUNTY DEPUTY CLERK.

Walker Worthy for Mayor Trenton, NJ

This is one of 8 mayoral candidates for Trenton New Jersey upcoming mayoral race.  

AT A GLANCE

• Born in Trenton in 1963 to Walker M. Worthy Sr. and Jerlene “Cookie” Humphries Worthy.
• Graduated from Tennessee State University; B.A., History.
• Appointed Deputy Clerk of Mercer County, the first African-American to hold that position. Worked as an educator at Trenton Public Schools. Served as a legislative aide in the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Attends Shiloh Baptist Church; serves on the Board of Trustees.
• Member of the NAACP, Tennessee State University Alumni Association, Correctional Officers Association of New Jersey, and National Education Association; Chair of the Mercer Pan Hellenic Council, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity; Vice-Chair of the Trenton Public Education Foundation.

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