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Every administration has phases.
When I took office, our first responsibility was to stabilize our city by reducing crime, tackling blight, and restoring confidence that Memphis was moving in the right direction.
Together, we've done that. We've driven historic reductions in crime while making our neighborhoods safer. We've attacked blight more aggressively than Memphis has in decades. We've reimagined how City government works by building innovative partnerships with the private sector, strengthening everything from 311 and winter weather response to engagement with our faith community, launching Own Your Block, and adopting a groundbreaking Community Benefits Ordinance that ensures AI-related investments benefit the neighborhoods around them.
None of that happened by chance. It happened because we had a clear strategy to uplift our community, put the right people in the right roles, empowered them to lead, and stayed focused on execution.
Now we enter the next phase.
The next phase is about building lasting prosperity for Memphis.
The work ahead is about building the Memphis of the future: unlocking the capacity for 10,000 new homes by 2030, creating 5,000 meaningful workforce pathways for young people, growing our creative economy as a driver of jobs and investment, and continuing to deliver the responsive, accountable government our residents expect.
To achieve those goals, City Hall must evolve, too. As our priorities change, we need leaders whose experience matches the scale and complexity of the work ahead.
That's why I've appointed Chris Winton as Chief Operating Officer, Art Davis as Chief Financial Officer, and Greg Dotson as Interim City Engineer.
 Left to Right: Chris Winton, Art Davis, and Greg Dotson, read more about them here.
Each brings decades of experience leading complex organizations, strengthening operations, managing major projects, and delivering results. Together, they'll help ensure City Hall has the leadership capacity to execute this next chapter while keeping our focus where it belongs: serving the people of Memphis.
Today, Memphis is stronger than it was two years ago because we made the difficult decisions first. Now it's time to build on that foundation.
The first phase proved what's possible. The next phase is about reaching even higher for the people of Memphis.
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