“Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve.”
~Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I AM READY!!!
Dr. Mary ‘May’ Larry as Mayor of Maywood-2025: First #100 Days
*Sign Executive Order on Ethics Reform across the board.
*Explore departmental efficiency.
*Work together with various school boards.
*Examine the Second-Chance Apprenticeship Training Program.
*Begin negotiations for a quality Maywood dining establishment.
*Economic development: embark on bringing more business/retail stores to Maywood.
*Work to lower residential taxes.
*Meet with business owners and clergy to formulate a working partnership.
*Assemble with business leaders to develop job growth strategies.
*Establish a flea market to benefit local entrepreneurs to showcase their business ventures.
*Organize a food desert summit to attract a grocery store.
CEOs from six major grocery chains convened in Maywood to discuss plans to expand into a community that lacks access to fresh foods and to begin a dialogue about additional steps they can take.
to scale these efforts and formulate a partnership.
*Budget: freeze all nonessential contract spending. (Maywood is in a deficit, and we got a chip away at this debts.)
*Explore/Launch Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Reform Task Force: Community residents be able to tap into these resources, rebuilding/rebranding Maywood from within.
*Post Maywood budget online (for transparency.)
*Sign executive order on long-term financial planning, creating a long-term budget and financial planning
process, and working to implement it within the Village Council through the budget process.
*Re-examine the Business Development and Economic Issues in conjunction with preparing an Annual Financial Analysis, which will include a trend analysis of all Village funds, a financial forecast
including a three-year baseline forecast and a three-year alternative forecast, and analyses of the Maywood’s reserves, capital program, debt, liabilities, and financial policies.
*Review services to identify opportunities with nonprofits and grassroots organizations within the community of Maywood.
*Begin collaborations to reduce costs and residential services.
*Launch Apps for Maywood, data to create applications that make government more accessible and responsive.
*Design a community safety program.
*Bring back Officer-friendly Cops-on-the-Street!
*Establish an annual Senior Citizen’s Day, whereas we shower seniors with expressions of-appreciation.
(We must take time to celebrate our residents who are blessed to see their golden years here in Maywood.)
*Establish a resident think tank committee to generate innovative ideas and strategies for community development and sustainable growth initiatives.
*Launch a Landlord/Tenant Commission.
*Identify partners for strategy to support entrepreneurs and new business formation.
*Create a strategy to allow entrepreneurship to thrive in the Village of Maywood. This is critical to the administration’s broader economic mission.
*Grow entrepreneurship and new business; an MBE/WBC working group to help start, develop, and grow MBE/WBE
businesses.
*Develop a technology campus and launch Idea’s week to attract top-level entrepreneurial business.
*Develop public health goals: a comprehensive strategy which will be drafted to identify ambitious public health goals and outline a structure for implementation.
*Maywood’s public health strategy: raise the health awareness of residents/better coordinate services/institute a Let’s-Walk-Challenge.
Maywood Residents, rest assured that
there will be no more failed promises, or business as usual.
The old ‘machine politics of control’ within our community
is OVER; we have suffered long enough!
“WE’RE BETTER TOGETHER!”
