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Jack
Minore’s commitment to the Flint community is well documented.
So are his innovative ideas.
As a classroom teacher for 31 years, Jack knows the
importance of improving our schools and keeping children safe—a
priority he maintains today.
Every year that Jack served on the City Council, the
City of Flint operated with a balanced budget and a year-end surplus.
He worked with other city officials to reduce long-range pension costs
to the city, and he was responsible for the creation of a Flint "Rainy
Day Fund" that provided some savings in "the good years"
that could be used in later years.
Jack was first to propose the regional Bishop Airport Authority
and succeeded in establishing neighborhood Enterprise Zones in the city.
Along with friends at FIM, Jack initiated the Music in the Parks
program—the only city/county cooperative program in existence
at that time. Jack also chaired the program for 15 years.
Jack, along with officials at Mott Community College, developed a plan
for the re-development of Flint's Kearsley Park and
steered that plan to fruition—the result of cooperation with the
residents, the city administration and the college. He helped secure
funding for the improvements and to hire the Parks Director.
A strong environmentalist, Jack chairs the Flint River Watershed
Coalition Board, the organization which conducts water quality
tests, organizes an annual river clean-up, and works with school districts
across the County on a watershed education cirriculum.
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As your representative from the 7th Ward, Jack will focus on the issues
that matter to our community. Namely...
• Working closely with the new
administration to secure state and
federal grants for the city, and to assure good public service
• Working with the city and
our school system to foster an improvement
program that adds value and worth to every student
• Seeking opportunities for cooperative efforts
with other government and education
units to fund development and to operate programs
effectively
• Supporting neighborhoods in
need of rehab and new development and seek funds for
housing assistance to promote home ownership,
especially in our Neighborhood Enterprise Zones, which
have been ignored for several years
• Working with our unions to
protect and enhance jobs, while striving for greater
efficiencies in operations and improving
public safety—especially in the fire and police
departments
• Serving the residents of the 7th Ward by
returning resident phone calls and assisting them
with city and other government issues to help rebuild
our city
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