Don't you even dare think that the field is set for the seven city council seats in Tampa that will be up for election next March.
This morning Tom Slaughter, a 51-year-old engineer and Hyde Park resident, announced that he filed paperwork last Thursday to run for the Tampa City Council in the District 1 seat, where he faces an increasingly crowded field.
Slaughter is president of the locally owned MAP Engineering Company, and in a press release he calls for job creation, as well as a more favorable business environment, as being his top goals he would stress if he were elected to the council.
He says the first place to begin to look to try to jack up the local economy is by supporting greater access to job training and social services for Tampa's "struggling urban and suburban households."
In his press release, he adds:
“After three decades in the private sector, I have the skills to make the many tough yet
fair-minded decisions similar to those required on City Council, “ claims Slaughter.
Slaughter says, “With a $30 million City shortfall in 2011, residents will, with a sense of
urgency, expect Council to balance the budget, maintain public services, and grow the economy."
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2010.