Hamilton County school board member and local business owner Jenny Hill is running for Chattanooga City Council to bring open-minded pragmatism to a new era of city government, she said.
As the city prepares to elect a new mayor and a new council to navigate the post-COVID-19 world, Hill says her penchant for leadership has drawn her to run for election in District 2.
“It is in me to want to make the world better. And I feel called to contribute with the skills that I have been gifted to help make Chattanooga a better place for everybody, not just for people that look like me, who live in my specific neighborhood, but for everybody,” she said Wednesday after qualifying for candidacy in the March election.
“COVID-19 has made 2020, a year full of economic hardships, among many types of hardships. And when I think about how that’s going to affect our city budget, I recognize that there will be, for some people, an instinct to want to bury our heads in the sand, buckle down and wait for this to go away,” she said. “But I see this as an opportunity for us to identify what kind of city we want to be and, with a limited budget, align our investment with our vision and our goals so that when we’re on the other side of this recession, we’re a stronger city for it.”
Hill is the owner of Papercut Interactive, a 19-year-old tech company in Chattanooga, a wife, mother, board member of Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise and former chair of Metropolitan Ministries. Through her experiences, she believes she can help steer the community.