Committee’s Advise & Carry Campaign Message

Nashville, TN – Today, Mayor Karl Dean announced the formation of the East Nashville Steering Committee. This committee is comprised of Karl Dean supporters throughout East Nashville who will help guide the mayor’s campaign in their neighborhoods.

“I appreciate the support of the leadership in East Nashville and look forward to working with them throughout the campaign,” said Dean. “My focus will continue to be on bringing people together to improve schools, make our neighborhoods safer, and work to create and retain jobs.”

David Briley and Jodie Bell hosted an East Nashville neighborhood gathering at their house, Sunday, May 15 with Mayor Dean. While speaking of Dean during the gathering Briley remarked, "We have one candidate who has experience, who has vision, and has shown he can lead a community through difficult times." Canned food items were brought and will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee.

To date, the Dean campaign has announced the creation of its Madison, North Nashville, Donelson, Antioch, Bellevue, and East Nashville Steering Committees. We will continue to announce the organization of the campaign over the course of the next several weeks.

You can follow the Dean campaign online at www.karldean.com, www.facebook.com/reelectkarldean, and on http://twitter.com/reelectkarldean. The last day to register to vote is July 5th. Early voting runs July 15-30. Election Day is August 4.

Dean working in East Nashville:

• The Attendance Center, which has been credited with lowering our truancy rate to nearly fifty percent, was located at the old East Police Precinct off Trinity Lane. The facility was retrofitted as a location where truant students will be taken, instead of Juvenile Court, and connected with services they and their families need to address the root cause of their absence from school.
• Enhanced public transportation along the Gallatin Road Corridor using state-of-the-art articulated hybrid buses and by making other infrastructure improvements.
• Metro has formed a public/private partnership with the Land Trust of Tennessee to create an Open Space Plan, which will protect and create green spaces and public lands while addressing flood issues and allowing for smart development and growth. The first land acquisition using resources from the Open Space Fund, which Mayor Dean included in last year’s capital spending plan and approved by the Metro Council, was Cornelia Fort Airpark. Cornelia Fort, which was inundated in the May 2010 flood, will expand Shelby Park and Shelby Bottoms Greenway by 135 acres.
• Mayor Dean set aside capital funds the Council approved for the upgrade of the old Highland Heights Middle School, now KIPP Academy, that will expand educational opportunity and strengthen the local community by creating space for neighborhood meetings and a park area.
• Ensuring greater public safety is critical to the health and well being of our families. Work has been done to modernize Metro’s emergency response fleet of vehicles and to provide our firefighters with the best equipment. Some of this new equipment has been placed at East Nashville stations.

East Nashville Steering Committee

State Representative Mike Stewart
Vice Mayor Diane Neighbors
District 7 Councilmember Erik Cole
District 6 Councilmember Mike Jameson
District 5 Metro Nashville Public School Board Member Gracie Porter
Fmr. Councilmember At-Large David Briley
Fmr. Councilmember Eileen Beehan
Jodie Bell
Matt Charette
Jeffrey H. Colvin
Shelly Colvin
Rev. Kaki Friskics-Warren
Patrick Hamilton
Adam Hill
Niketa Hailey-Hill
Francie Hunt
Margot McCormack
Jane Grimes Meneely
Reverend Breonus Mitchell
Dr. A. Dexter Samuels
Elizabeth MK Sullivan
Chris Thompson
Tony Viglietti

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