Getting to Know Candidate Kimberly F. Brown, MPA
Endorsements:
Education and Experience Matters
Result Driven!
The Brown Report Newspaper
Councilman Mike Dudley Sr. Garfield Heights, OH
Councilwoman Tara Samples, Akron, OH
Councilwoman Dana Anderson, Maple Heights
Pastor Henry & Vivian Mitchell
Donna Walker-Brown Former Chair Inner City Republican Pary
Community Activist, Rhonda Hill
Pastor Jackie Parker
Business Owner Akeya Bellew
Pastor Reginald Parker
Minister Maestro Glenn Brackens
Council Candidate Kimberly F Brown
"I come from proud a family that has been involved with public service for as long as I can remember. I want to work for you. We need to create more living-wage jobs, improve our schools, and make public safety - especially getting guns off the streets, a top priority. With nearly 30 years of community service and advocacy, I know what it takes to find solutions, navigate the complicated governmental agencies, and get things done. Here's what I mean;
Since our former president Donald Trump has embraced "stop and frisk," candidates for council are the best protection against it. I promise to write and introduce anti-stop and frisk ordinances that will prevent police officers from randomly stopping, questioning, and randomly searching Clevelanders without probable cause. The late Rep. Louis Stokes fought Terry v. Ohio all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States to end this police violation of our 4th Amendment constitutional rights in 1966. We have all these streets and buildings named in his honor, and we don't honor him with legislation that solves a problem he settled 50 years ago. We shouldn't even be having stop and frisk conversations in this day and age, thanks to Stokes, so I - Kimberly F. Brown - will write and work with other like-minded members of the council to make sure Trump doesn't misguide Cleveland police officers into thinking that violating our constitutional rights is acceptable.
For Example, We will create a collective Progressive Platform for Cleveland Ward ONE
#1 - An Anti-Stop & Frisk Ordinance that clearly instructs Cleveland police officers that this practice is unconstitutional and illegal. The ordinance will make it a first-degree misdemeanor for any law enforcement officer, security officer, or person operating under the color of law to stop and frisk anyone whom they do not know or have a reasonable and articulable suspicion to have committed a crime.
I will continue to fight for the betterment of our neighborhood, schools, and families. I will continue to stand for what is right, and work with all who are in support of the collective whole. We will immediately begin to implement the Safety Initiative "Saving Our Community" as well as look at health disparities issues that are ruining our children, families, and neighborhood(s).
Cleveland Ward ONE residents, our time is "right now". We must learn to tolerate less and Expect Much More; We Deserve Better. Let's Right the Wrong "
"There is Nothing Wrong with Commanding Quality Services & More". Join Team Brown as we work to build our neighborhood, and preserve our past!
Team Brown Community Platform
Affordable & Decent Housing
Create a Friendly and Resourceful Community; Promote Affordable, Decent, and Safe Housing. We will work with all Landlords, Banks, CMHA Buildings and HUD. We will create a resource warehouse where both tenants and landlords can get immediate assistance from the council office i.e.., referral resources on utility assistance, fair housing, and tenant/landlord rights. We will build positive relations with the legal community and solicit bi-monthly pro-bono mediation services. We will also develop the No Neighborhood Lawn Left behind Imitative; a neighborhood tool chest rental service where residents can rent the WARD’s lawn-mower and other lawn tools for a minimum fee. All residents renting the equipment must attend a two-hour mandatory lawn equipment training course
Business & Community Relations
Building Our Neighborhood; Preserving Our Past; Re-invest and re-create a stable, clean, safe and financially sound Lee/Harvard business infrastructure. We will work with all legal business owners to provide guidance, and help find necessary resources to improve their individual business structure. We will work directly with our Community development department seeking economic development opportunities. We will maintain our monthly newspaper to keep residents informed. We will aid the Lee/Harvard Business Organization in developing a WARD One Business Directory to market, and promote small businesses in WARD ONE and neighboring communities. We will also enforce city ordinances to keep businesses within legal parameter. We will establish positive work relations with neighboring partners; Maple Heights, Garfield, Shaker, Warrensville, Cleveland WARD 4, and Cleveland WARD 2.
"Team Brown is the only team in the city, with a clear plan on how to reduce crime within our neighborhoods"
The WARD ONE Resource Empire; Let's Build, Let's Empower!
We will effectively work with the Mayor of the city, and all city council members. We will serve as liaison to WARD ONE Constituents, Business Owners, Schools, the Spiritual Community and Stake Holders; aid all to bring some transparency to city hall focusing on inefficient and ineffectual city departments and programs. We will create and assist with fair legislation, and challenge policies that are not good for the collective whole. We will assure that residents’ voices are heard and ideas are considered prior to moving forward on any and all projects affecting the WARD ONE Community. We will re-create the structure of Cleveland WARD ONE ward office. We will implement a council office with a resource center regarding local job, and volunteer opportunities, a missing person bureau, and a computer lab. We will also open two small site locations for WARD ONE residents – Kinsman/Milverton area, and a location in the Miles/Caine community.
Community Empowerment & Senior Extension
Extend our senior and adult services; Support the living wage increase, and establish a local WARD ONE transportation program for senior. We will invest in two senior vans and one sedan to aid seniors with local WARD ONE errands.
Block Watch Re-Investment
We will re-invent the structure of block watch groups, and re-build street clubs one neighborhood at a time. Quarterly we will challenge ourselves with benchmarks and quotas. Year-end we will formulate a Block Club Executive Committee to strengthen the will of our neighborhood, and to serve as liaisons to the council. We will empower this group to aid, support, and special events, and work with members of our community center to build cohesiveness and community structure. Most important will introduce the 2 for 2 "playing it safe institution plan"