Jade McCullough is the owner of Jaszy’s Angel Childcare.
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Please tell voters about yourself.
I was born and raised here in San Antonio; I did move out in 2014 only to come back in 2015 because there is no place like home. I graduated from Holmes High School and attended DeVry University for business management and AIU for accounting. I was on the SEBEDA committee from 2016-2018. I worked with District 2. I got an insight into how our city government and different parties run the city.
However, since the age of 9, I have been in the childcare field, when I moved back to San Antonio in 2015, I lost my son, and I just wanted to give the love I would have given to my son to the kids I care for. So, I opened Jaszy Angel’s Childcare where we get to love kids and teach them core values. I have never run for an office
In a field of 27 mayoral candidates, what differentiates you from the others?
I have an understanding on how families function and what they actually struggle with when it comes to the economy here in San Antonio. I have managed multiple families homes at once and I saw them struggle in areas I couldn’t help but I expanded my area of expertise and found out how to get most of the families out of the hurdles they needed to overcome.
I bring compassion, understanding, listening, a knowledge of taking a step back and looking at the whole picture and not just from one side, a knowledge of knowing how to handle multiple personalities and picking what is a great fit for everyone. (Nanny side of problem solving) Being able to think quickly when a problem does arise and doing what is best for the task at hand.
If elected, you would be taking over at a time when the city has spent more than a year negotiating a massive downtown redevelopment effort in Project Marvel. How would you approach this project?
Yes, I would love to investigate what has been talked about, I want to see what the actual plans are when it comes to project marvel. I would like to see what areas we need to develop more, as well as looking deeply into the budget and making sure that we can allocate our city funds properly. I think we need to look into the other contracts we have with the other facilities and see if we can use the funding from those if not work a way around getting this project funded instead of using the taxpayers dollars.
In the city’s 2024-2025 budget survey, residents ranked homelessness, streets,
housing and animal care services among their top concerns for the city to address. Which issues do you consider a top concern and how would you work to address them in your first 100 days?
If I had to rank the issues the residence ranked as the top concerns here in San Antonio from greatest it would be. 1. Housing, 2. Homelessness, 3. Animals, 4. Streets, 5. Infrastructure.
My first 100 days, I would prioritize getting our code enforcement to do a sweep with the affordable housing complexes around the city making sure all of our housing is up to code and that all the management companies comply with the law and make sure no stone is unturned.
Second, I would investigate our homelessness and look into the findings and the housing we have for them and look into our mental health situations when it comes to aiding with our homelessness.
Third, I would look into our animal system and make sure we are allocating our resources properly. Fourth, our streets making sure the city council does stay on top of those things and we work together as a team and do right by our citizens around the city.
For the past four years San Antonio has worked closely with the Biden Administration on federally funded projects like airport development and Advanced Rapid Transit. How would you approach working with both state leaders in Austin and a new presidential administration in D.C.?
I think making sure no pride stands in the way when it comes to development for San Antonio. Going in with an open mind and understanding is essential as well as studying what has already been talked about. Making sure that the people of San Antonio can benefit the most from any decision that is make when it comes to the airport development and the advance rapid transit.
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