Brandon will fight to protect the Verde River and embrace additional options for Prescott to maintain a 100-year supply of water.
Smarter Growth, Protecting Our Lifestyle
It’s time to turn the page on bulldozing open space for more sprawl. Instead, let’s enhance the quality of Prescott life. Most Prescottonians live here because of what Prescott has to offer. Open space, natural beauty, forest lands and its trail system, abundant recreational opportunities, beautiful lakes and Prescott’s history and charm. Brandon will continue to take and expand measures to protect our open space.
Economic Development That Makes Sense
Prescott needs to attract employers that will fill a void in our employment base, that of higher paying jobs. Doing so will strengthen our economy. Brandon is committed to a more balanced economic development plan to create more robust economic activity beyond tourism. This will make Prescott less vulnerable in times of an economic downturn.
Brandon plans to work with stakeholders in the education sectors, including our colleges and school districts, along with industry and healthcare leaders and surrounding municipalities, to find common ground for a regional vision and plan.
He also feels it is important to take better advantage of city amenities such as our new regional and growing airport, our popular city golf courses and the community’s natural beauty to embrace economic development efforts.
Opportunities to create nodes around health care, aerospace, defense industry, cybersecurity and ecotourism have, for the most part, gone untapped. Developing these opportunities would lead to higher paying jobs and could assist in the needed recruitment of doctors and nurses. This new focus on economic development will strengthen our economy by supporting local businesses, providing more city tax revenue and play a role in keeping young talent from leaving our community.
Transparency and Public Access
Brandon is a champion of government transparency and is committed to engaging citizens in a modern and effective way. He is dedicated to being accessible and transparent if elected mayor.
As the previous mayor pro tem, he started a monthly outreach program to meet and talk with citizens. As mayor, he would like to expand outreach programs to become regular townhall meetings. These meetings would encourage dialogue with citizens and to update activities, progress and achievements, including the impact city decisions might have on the community. Brandon supports ways to garner more citizen input and provide more public access for working citizens. As such, Brandon will pursue rescheduling city council meetings from mid-afternoon to early evening to allow for greater public participation.
Wise Water Management
Water supply is not infinite. Brandon believes that the city of Prescott has a critical obligation as an assured water supplier. It will require the continuation of smart, reasonable growth. The time to permanently protect the flow of the upper Verde River, a vital water source, has come. Brandon will fight to protect the Verde River and embrace additional options for Prescott to maintain a 100-year supply of water. As a city council member, Brandon is proud of his work to craft a more significant and substantive water policy in 2021. The work continues but the policy needs to be adjusted and refined, requiring city council to review the effectiveness of the policy quarterly. QCBN
By Jim Kleczewski
Brandon Montoya grew up in Prescott and along with his wife, Erica Ryberg, are founding principals of Montoya Wealth, a financial planning firm. He has served on the Prescott City Council since 2021. Brandon and Erica have two children, Lily and Ellis. For more information about his candidacy, visit Brandonmontoya.com.
Jim Kleczewski is a volunteer on the Brandon Montoya For Prescott Mayor Campaign. He was a previous PR executive with Young & Rubicam Advertising and WFC Advertising where his focus was on political campaigns prior to starting his own national PR an advertising agency, PR West, Inc. Currently, he is a Prescott realtor with Realty One Group. He can be reached at 928-830-5709 or homesforprescottlife@gmail.com.
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