With just over six months to go in his second term in Jackson’s top office, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said he is focused on rehabbing city facilities, driving more revenue and repairing the seemingly never-ending infrastructure needs in Jackson.
“I’m a hands-on mayor, and I want to see to it that these long-standing challenges for our residents are addressed,” Lumumba said during a Monday press conference. “In this job, you can’t just admire a problem. You can’t just say, ‘Well, our roads are bad, and we have issues with these facilities,’ you have to be able to identify dedicated streams of funding in order to address those things … So we’re looking high and low, each and every day, to how we find programmatic solutions to long-standing challenges.”
Challenges Lumumba mentioned and is prioritizing include repaving the city’s roads — an endeavor that has been in the works since 2023 with the “Street Resurfacing Project.” Phase 1A of the project, which aims to repave and resurface over 40 neighborhood streets, is set to finish by the end of March. Phases 1B and 1C of the project, which will see a combined total of 102 streets resurfaced, will begin after.