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JACKSONIAN ROBERT RUSHTON

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xperience and a passion for cooking has helped Robert Rushton get an executive position in his field. Beginning with a summer job, he ascended the restaurant kitchen ladder and is currently the executive chef at Local 463 Urban Kitchen.

As a boy, the Jackson native helped his mother shell peas and cook pasta, but he never imagined becoming a chef. After graduating from Jackson Academy in 2000, he studied at the University of Mississippi. He says he discovered his love of cooking and the “chaos” of restaurant kitchens because he had to work to support himself. “At first, I just needed a job during the summer,” Rushton says. “A friend got me job at Proud Larry’s because I needed the extra money. I just fell in love because it was fun. You’re moving all the time; I like the chaos of the kitchen.”

When school was back in session, Rushton continued to work while he pursued a degree in marketing. He says he “spent more time focusing on his job at the restaurant than school,” so it wasn’t long before he decided to follow a different career path. Working his way through various kitchen positions and management, Rushton stayed in Oxford for 10 years.

He met his now wife, Lauren, who was a fellow UM student, while working for the City Grocery Restaurant Group. He returned to Jackson in 2010 and worked in Ridgeland at Mint the Restaurant for a short time. He was hired as chef de cuisine at Walkers’ Drive-In in

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2011. Rushton worked there until chef Derek Emerson, who co-owns Local 463, Walker’s and CAET Wine Bar, gave him a promotion and moved him to Local 463.

As executive chef, Rushton creates, cooks and manages the five-member kitchen staff during lunch and the seven-member crew during dinner. On a busy night, the restaurant serves 250 to 300 people.

“Talk about chaos, on a busy night, it’s crazy back there in the kitchen,” he says. “Everybody’s moving. It’s like a dance—if they go where they need to go, it all works out.”

As chef at a fine-dining restaurant with the word “local” in its name, Rushton is a proponent of keeping it local—“owning your plate,” he says—by cooking with fresh, Mississippi-grown produce. He believes in supporting local farmers, helping them get their name out there. One of his favorite summer dishes to serve is a crab-and-tomato Napoleon with basil vinaigrette, red onions and crab meat on sliced tomatoes.

“People know they’re getting a tomato that was grown right down the road,” he says.

Rushton’s job is a full-time occupation.

Fortunately, his wife works as a floor manager at Local 463. “We’re together all day, every day,” he says.

Married since October 2012, the couple resides in Jackson and spends their spare time at home with “their girl,” a chocolate lab named Madison.

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EDITOR’S note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

Living the Dream in Post-1523 Mississippi

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’m feelin’ some type of way about boycotts in the wake of HB 1523. On the one hand, I get it. People, musical artists, states, companies and sports leagues have the right, and maybe obligation, to boycott a state that passes laws allowing governmentsupported discrimination against a group of people. Both houses of the Legislature voted to pass it. The governor, elected by a majority of voters, signed the bill into law.

Now, we’re facing two probable lawsuits that the taxpayers must pay dearly to defend, and which we will lose, considering that the U.S. Supreme Court is way ahead of us on discrimination. And we’ll likely lose scads of revenue as potential tourists and performers and convention goers decide that, yep, Mississippi is still what she used to be. We deserve what we get. At least as a state.

But what’s tough, and keeps me up at night, is the growing group of Mississippians—native and transplants—who are fighting to get this state to the new next level.

Since we launched 14 years ago, it’s been heartening to see how many Mississippians are speaking out, and not just for their “own� issue, but forming alliances to fight racism and homophobia and xenophobia and various other nasty -isms that the majority of our state politicians use to drum up right-wing fervor and, thus, votes back home.

Progressive thinkers here are working to leave hate-drenched politics behind, to get enough people motivated to vote to use our purple demographics to send a strong message at the polls that we’re not playing that old-time religion of hate any longer. Many of us are in the capital city—a forward-thinking city that took a strong, emotional stand against HB 1523—and a lot of others are in our college towns and sprinkled here and there throughout the state, even in those gerrymandered districts that elect the dinosaurs.

We’re always stuck between the hateful lobby in our state and the world that thinks we’re

all a member of it. It’s these determined Mississippians I worry about, and always have.

Being progressive in Mississippi has gotten easier, at least for those of us inside these wonderful bubbles of inclusion, but it’s still damn hard. Even with our demographics, and the fact that we often turn up with “purple� political potential on polls—meaning we could tip “blue� with enough turnout— we’re considered flyover country. Probably because of our (true) history as the worst of

World, I’m not telling you to not boycott us. But. the worst on race issues, and because we keep electing Ross Barnett clones who pander to racism and fear of the “other,� many nonconservative politicians don’t bother to stop by and say hey. They just jet on over on their way to Florida or Ohio or somewhere.

Meantime, even when dull-as-dirt John Kerry was on the presidential ticket, Mississippi voters under 30 led the exit polls with their support of the Democrat with 60-plus percent—higher than all southern states, including Florida and Texas. And that was with very few political advertising dollars spent with our corporate media outlets that send much of it out of state.

Put it this way: Progressives in Mississippi are like any other beleaguered group: Perception matters, and we need attention for what we’re accomplishing here, and an understanding of what we could do if supported more. This state is ripe with potential, on top of the kinds of creativity and passion that often explodes from a place steeped in

pain. The flip side is that the negativity can destroy us from within, or send us packing to places that don’t tell government workers that it’s fine and dandy to discriminate against us for some or another “religious� reason.

We—as in thousands and thousands of us—fight the good fight here every damn day. We drive by Confederate flags flapping in front of buildings in a crumbling Jackson where state officials come in from out in the land of corporate cotton somewhere and pass horrendous laws that set us back 50 years with the scribble of a pen. We fight for our public schools, and our young people, and our right to be different from our ancestors. Many of us pray, too, every day for our state and our people and our future, as others condemn us and tell us we’re going to hell.

But we fight anyway because we love our state. We fight because we know this nation can never be stronger than its weakest link. We fight because we love the people around us and are tired of seeing them left behind and neglected. We fight because Mississippians know how to fight, and we want it to be about something real and lasting.

Then the nation wants to boycott us.

Sit here in downtown Jackson, like I do, and look out over the city toward the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the old Confederate statue in front of the archives, and down at the City Hall that Masons built where the council stayed up late one night to pass a resolution against HB 1523.

Walk in my shoes where we, quite literally, have to scrap for every dime to do what we do, and do it well, going deep to find the truth and letting the chips fall where they may, while others pour cash into bad media outlets afraid to offend that backward dude in the governor’s mansion a block away. Listen to people who own clubs, and restaurants, and performance venues, who hustle like we do to support each other, to live and dream local, and hear the fear that we all won’t, can’t

make it because of those hucksters who parachute in every spring and tell the world we’re all hateful, so stay away from here.

Face the fear of having to pick up and leave your home state to do your thing somewhere else because you just can’t make it work here any longer, because of the hate and what it takes away, and you will understand why many Mississippians fear the boycotts so desperately. I understand the reason, but cutting off our noses to spite our legislators can kill the dream we’re all chasing, especially if the boycotts extend to the burgeoning progressive enclaves around the state where we just refuse to hate like many people want us to.

We talk a lot about “brain drain� in Mississippi. It’s something we need to stop in order to promote economic development that can, in turn, help rebuild our cities, our streets and our public schools (if the ruffians in the capitol don’t manage to close them first). We need to stop our smart people from leaving and get more of them to put down roots and big ideas here and build things and businesses and lives, to help reverse the effects of the past and, yes, to vote.

Most of the boycotts won’t have an effect on the places where the most hateful live.

Frankly, they don’t care; when you live in a space where a vote is more important than spending millions to defend lawsuits over human rights, you don’t care if we lose business. When much of your campaign funding comes from out of state, you don’t care what happens to music venues in Jackson or that great, soul-changing performances may never come here. In fact, you’re happy about it because our culture is immoral, you know.

World, I’m not telling you to not boycott us. I am asking, though, that you take the long view and ask yourselves if you can help progressive thinkers, young and older, in Mississippi grow and thrive. We’re here for the fight, but it’s just gotten a lot harder.

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News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

She wrote about budget cuts, HB 1523 and other state news.

City Reporter Tim Summers Jr. enjoys loud live music, teaching his cat to fetch, long city council meetings and FOIA requests. Send him story ideas at tim@jacksonfreepress.com.

He wrote about airport litigation and other City news.

Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took the cover photo and lots more.

Freelance writer Julie Skipper practices law by day and gets out and about around Jackson as much as possible. She fancies art, fashion and travel, and rarely encounters a stiletto she doesn’t like. She wrote a Hitched story.

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Thursday, May 5 Gov. Phil Bryant signs Senate Bill 2162 into law, giving control of Jackson’s two airports to a state-appointed board.

Friday, May 6 Two same-sex couples in Mississippi finalize adoptions after the state’s ban on such adoptions ends.

Saturday, May 7 Gucci America quits the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, the second defection since the Washington, D.C.-based group allowed Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to become a member in April.

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Monday, May 9 The ACLU files the first federal lawsuit contesting House Bill 1523, naming the Mississippi State Registrar of Vital Records as the defendant. ‌ North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration files a lawsuit against the federal government in a fight for the state’s law that requires transgender people to use the public restroom matching the sex on their birth certificate.

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Tuesday, May 10 The Campaign for Southern Equality and Roberta Kaplan file a motion to reopen the Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant lawsuit, saying that House Bill 1523 violates the constitutional right that plaintiffs won in the case, allowing same-sex marriage couples the right to wed in the state.

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‘Jim Crow for the Gays’: Lawsuits Are Coming

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ykolas Alford and Stephen Thomas are an engaged couple who live in Meridian. They plan to get married in the next three years in Mississippi once they’ve finished college. In March, they stood together on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol among a modest crowd to protest House Bill 1523.

Alford called the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act� the “Jim Crow for the gays� in March when the crowd urged lawmakers going in and out of the Capitol to vote against the bill. After Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill into law a month and a half later, the couple chose to step up and be plaintiffs in the first lawsuit to challenge House Bill 1523. “This is not just about me, and I wish more people who feel that way would be out here,� Alford told the Jackson Free Press in March. “Yes, I’m a black man, I’m gay, I’m a college student and everything else about me, but it’s bigger than that. We’re all equal, supposedly. My tax money should not be going towards discriminating against myself.�

The ACLU filed the first federal lawsuit contesting House Bill 1523 naming Alford and Thomas as plaintiffs. The lawsuit names the Mississippi State Registrar of Vital Records as the defendant because that state office would have to collect a list of clerks who are recusing themselves from issuing samesex marriage licenses under HB 1523.

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Nykolas Alford and Stephen Thomas are plaintiffs in the ACLU’s lawsuit against the state’s registrar for vital records, claiming that HB 1523 is unconstitutional.

Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. is their attorney.

Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr., who is representing the plaintiffs in the case, says that simply setting up such a list is unconstitutional. “House Bill 1523 sets up a scheme in the state of Mississippi to provide unequal treatment to citizens across the state,� Diaz said Monday. “In essence, it’s setting up a separate but unequal system of registering for marriage licenses.�

Judy Moulder is the named defendant in the lawsuit in her capacity as the state registrar of vital records because her office is designated in House Bill 1523 to accept and collect the filings from different clerks around the state who recuse themselves from issuing same-sex marriage licenses.

Alford and Thomas told reporters Monday that they have not faced direct discrimination because of the new law or before

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House Bill 1523 was passed, but the couple said they wanted to be a part of the lawsuit to prevent others from experiencing such discrimination. “Part of the reason we are here is so that no one else has to face that discrimination.

We haven’t faced it and that is a blessing in and of itself,� Thomas said. “This law allows for people—I can’t say it enough—to discriminate because of who we are, so this is us speaking up for people who haven’t found their voice yet.�

Diaz said that while his plaintiffs had not been subject to individual discrimination, House Bill 1523 sets up an unequal system for registering marriage licenses in the state. He said that the U.S. Supreme Court was clear in the Obergefell decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationally that states are not allowed to treat same-sex marriages differently than different sex marriages.

Beyond the lawsuit, the ACLU has also filed a preliminary injunction asking a judge to conduct a hearing and not allow House

concentrate, but we wont have the funds to do that.�

Most of the state’s social-service agencies are looking at harsh cuts—with the exception of the state’s foster-care system, which received surplus funding in order to comply with a federal court order. The Mississippi Department of Health is looking at a $3.8 million, or 11-percent budget cut, for fiscal-year 2017, and Currier says this cut will affect most part of the agency—except the health clinics, which suffered from

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Bill 1523 to take effect on July 1. “We’re trying to stop it before it goes into effect,� Diaz said.

Proponents of House Bill 1523 claim that the bill is narrow in scope, merely preventing the state government from forcing a person to violate their “sincerely held religious belief.�

In an op-ed piece published at jfp.ms, Rep. Andy Gipson, R-Braxton, wrote: “The stated objections to HB 1523 are that it will allow people to “deny services� to certain people. That is simply not true, unless the specific services requested are related to and would violate a person’s sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage or gender.� “In fact,� he wrote, HB 1523 doesn’t mandate that any citizen or entity do or refuse to do anything. It does mandate that the government will not punish citizens or faithbased entities for acting or choosing not to act in accordance with their convictions.�

Jennifer Riley-Collins, the executive director of the ACLU of Mississippi, said

earlier cuts this year—and result in more than 127 jobs lost in the department. ‘Sending People Home’ The Department of Mental Health is looking at a 4.4 percent or $8.3-million cut that will mean “a reduction in force and a reduction in services,� a Tuesday press release from the department said. “Because of the reduced funding appropriated for FY17, DMH must close some services.

DMH’s goal is to minimize the number of layoffs by offering positions currently on recruitment to staff who work in the programs affected by these cuts. The closure of services and supports will impact local communities throughout the entire state,� Communications Director Adam Moore wrote.

About 62 percent of the Department of Human Services’ state general-fund budget went to the foster-care system, which will become the new Department of Child Protection Services, leaving the rest of the department to deal with quite a budget shortfall. The department did not want to offer comment for this story.

Currier’s department has already struggled with budget issues earlier this year due to the falling number of Medicaid patients the department sees, resulting in a loss of close to $10 million in Medicaid reimbursements and nine health clinics closing. The clinic closures, in places like Newton, Taylorsville, Biloxi and Ocean Springs, meant 64 clinical staff

that House Bill 1523 allows one religion to be used to harm others, therefore violating constitutional rights of Mississippians. “Freedom of religion is one of our most fundamental rights, and what we are asking is that religion not be used as a tool to harm anyone,� Riley-Collins said. “As Justice Diaz points out there is a double-standard that has been set up in state law.�

The lawsuit states that House Bill 1523 violates the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the First Amendment by identifying same-sex marriage as a “subset of legal marriages and make them unequal to all other types of legal marriages.�

On Tuesday, the Campaign for Southern Equality and Roberta Kaplan, the New York-based attorney who won same-sex marriage and adoption cases in Mississippi, filed a motion to reopen the Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant lawsuit, saying that House Bill 1523 violates the constitutional right that plaintiffs won in the case, allowing same-sex couples the right to wed.

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“The statute that the State of Mississippi enacted, HB 1523, clearly violates the fundamental principle of equality before the law, Kaplan said in a press statement Tuesday. “It authorizes, even encourages, discrimination against LGBT people in Mississippi re-creating, only months after the Supreme Court clearly held it unconstitutional, another form of second-class citizenship for LGBT Mississippians. State officials cannot circumvent federal court injunctions and evade the Constitution by passing laws that seek to stigmatize LGBT people and segregate them from everyone else.�

Kaplan’s motion points to the same unconstitutional premises that the ACLU’s lawsuit focuses on: the due process and equal protection clauses in the 14th amendment. “The 14th amendment basically says that every state has to give every person equal protection and due process of law,� Kaplan told the Jackson Free Press Tuesday.

To read and comment on more stories about House Bill 1523 visit jfp.ms/lgbt.

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fforts to reduce the state’s infant mortality rate—the highest in the country—will go on the chopping block if Gov. Phil Bryant signs the Legislature’s version of the state budget into law, the state’s top health officer told the Jackson Free Press last week.

Most social-service state agencies, including the state’s health, mental-health and human-services departments, will have to make layoffs and cut programs in fiscal-year 2017 if Gov. Phil Bryant signs the budget bills the Legislature passed in April. The governor has already cut fiscal-year 2016 budgets due to revenue shortages. “Last year, the Legislature gave us some funds to work on the infant-mortality issue, but we won’t be doing those things that we have done in the past because we won’t have the funds to do them,� state health officer Mary Currier said last week. “And we were trying to do very evidence-based things that can have a real effect on infant mortality.�

The health department will continue to work with hospitals in policy areas, asking them not to do early elective deliveries, which contribute to high infant mortality rates. The department will have to stop purchasing and producing flyers given to each new mother in hospitals around the state with education about infant mortality, however. “We were providing education to every woman who gives birth in a hospital so that they understand how their baby can be safer from the risks of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) so we won’t have the funds to do that anymore,� Currier said. “We have the highest infant-mortality rate in the country, so this is an area where we really need to

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Legislative Summer School: All About Performance

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partments. Performance-based budgeting means more than just evaluating how agencies perform. It means evaluating the actual programs agencies use—for example, an evaluation of MDOC’s RID program led them to change gears and switch to a model that would decrease recidivism more effectively, using evidence-based programming. The process of program inventory and budgeting is a slow one, however, so some lawmakers will be in Jackson this summer to continue their work.

Rep. Toby Barker, R-Hattiesburg, is the chairman of the House Performance Based Budgeting Committee, which will meet all summer to ensure programs the Legislature funds are evidence-based and produce necessary results.

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members lost their jobs in January, and Currier says her department left an additional 89 positions vacant in fiscal-year 2016 because they didn’t have the funding.

“We’re still seeing the patients; what we’ve done is decrease our footprint to where we can still take care of the patients who are coming to see us so we’re just doing that more efficiently than we did in the past,” Currier said. “So it was a gradual decline (in Medicaid reimbursements), but we dealt with it by sending people home in a non-gradual manner.”

In preparation for July’s forthcoming cuts, Currier told the Jackson Free Press that she is working hard to not cut any more clinical staff with the new budget cut and spread the $3.8 million across the rest of the agency.

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‘Robust Evidence’ Impacts Policy The House Performance Based Budgeting Committee, which is brand new this year, met all session long and will continue to meet twice a month this summer to implement performance-based budgeting in state agency budgets, making sure programs that they state pays for are evidence-based, or simply put, proven to work.

Last week, the committee met in the Woolfolk Building for the first of several summer meetings. The Performance Based IMANI KHAYYAM

he Mississippi Department of Corrections is ending a paramilitary inmate program due to a state law and legislative efforts to enforce performance-based budgeting for all state agencies.

The Regimented Inmate Discipline program, called RID for short, was a paramilitary program for offenders with earned probation, and MDOC is replacing RID with a Recidivism Reduction Program, which will include cognitive behavioral therapy.

On April 13, MDOC announced the switch, citing its work with the Mississippi Joint Legislative PEER committee to develop the new evidence-based program.

“MDOC is one of the state’s pilot agencies for performance-based budgeting,” Commissioner Marshall Fisher said in a press release. “As such, we are committed to performing our public safety mission operating as effectively and efficiently as our budget allows.”

The push for performance-based budgeting in Mississippi actually dates back to 1994 when the Legislature made the “Mississippi Performance Budget and Strategic Planning Act” a part of state law, however, real changes have only started to occur in the past few years.

In 2014, the Legislature passed a bill that enabled the Legislative Budget Office and the PEER committee to begin program inventory on the state’s corrections, transportation, education and health de-

A ‘Major Problem’ State agency heads have voiced concerns over another budget process bill that will jeopardize millions of dollars in federal funding, preliminary analyses from the state attorney general show.

The Mississippi Budget Transparency and Simplification Act of 2016 would prohibit state agencies from charging another agency a fee, assessment, rent or other charge for resources or services. Attorney General Jim Hood wrote a letter to the appropriations committee chairmen, the legislative

leadership and the governor expressing concern with the bill in early March.

“A major problem with this proposed legislation is the loss of federal money,” Hood wrote. “When a state agency pays the Attorney General’s Office for legal fees/services, the federal government reimburses that state agency at a rate of 66-100%, depending on the match rate for various programs. If the expenditure of legal fees/services is not incurred and no payment is made, then the agency cannot claim the reimbursement from the federal government.”

On Friday, Gov. Bryant signed the bill into law, the Legislature’s website shows. Hood wrote a second letter to the same recipients about the bill after it came out of conference in April and said preliminary research by his department estimates a loss of more than $20 million in federal revenue for state agencies, including all the state’s social-service agencies.

Currier says the bill would jeopardize cooperation among agencies to provide basic services—such as disaster response.

Currier used the 2014 Louisville tornado as an example of such cooperation that required agency reimbursements.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is a small group of people that relies on the response of other state agencies to provide disaster relief. The Department of Health provided evacuation assistance, a portable hospital and staffing as well as rebuilding plans in Louisville after the storm.

Currier said it cost $1.3 million, which the department was reimbursed by MEMA drawing down federal funds to do

Budgeting Committee is a bit different than your typical government committee meeting, though, it’s set up like a hybrid—part classroom with a “data moment,” part interaction. Lawmakers learn from an LBO office member about the ins and outs of data and assessing programs that are evidence-based and funding them appropriately, then they speak with state agency representatives about programs and standards going forward. Lawmakers learn then meet with agencies, but it’s a learning curve for everyone involved.

These responsibilities lie mainly in the hands of Rep. Toby Barker, R-Hattiesburg.

Barker was named the chairman of the Performance Based Budgeting Committee at the start of the session. The committee’s creation is a push from House leadership to implement a budget strategy that has been brewing in the House Appropriations Committee for at least three years. Barker says the strategy is three-fold: performance-based budgeting, strategic planning and evidencebased policymaking—all of which sounds like theory with less practice.

The Mississippi Legislature has partnered with the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative, a software, research and technical tool available to states for free, that helps states use a cost-benefit analysis approach to help them fund policies and programs that work. The idea of Results First is to allow evidence-based research to influence policy and budgeting

so. With Senate Bill 2362 as its written, this would not be possible. And without that payment, the health department could not show up because, as Currier says, “We have to make payroll.”

The state’s health officer said it was her understanding that the legislative leadership is working on this provision because they have communicated to her that things like disaster relief and emergency response are important.

On Monday, the health department said Dr. Currier is expecting a written response from the governor’s office regarding the matter. “We are hopeful that some of our issues will be resolved in the coming weeks,” the department’s communications director, Liz Sharlot, said in a statement.

The governor’s office did not respond to requests for comment, but Laura Hipp, communications director for Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, said via email: “Legislative leadership and staff, the Governor’s office, and Agency directors are working together to develop a plan to implement the SB2362. While it will take effort to change the status quo, the Lieutenant Governor believes bringing more transparency and more scrutiny to spending of taxpayer dollars is well worth the work.”

“It’s a shame because I think in a state like Mississippi where we don’t have excess money to just throw around, we should all be working together towards common goals, and this makes it more difficult,” Currier said.

For more state coverage visit jfp.ms/state. Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Battle for the Airport: The Next Steps

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keep the license with the City.

The Mayor and City of Jackson representatives do not have the same attitude. They are ready to litigate.

“The City of Jackson maintains its position that this unconscionable legislation hijacks the City’s authority to operate its municipal airports,” Mayor Tony Yarber said in a release on May 4.

how funds are being used.

Implementation of the Results First model will take time—after an inventory of the state’s agencies is finished, the model calls for a review of which programs work.

“We’re planning on meeting all summer long, our committee’s work really gets into the weeds of how certain programs work and

‘By providing very robust evidence ...

I think it helps bring people together.’ that takes longer than four months,” Barker told the Jackson Free Press. Barker said that evaluating the effectiveness of programs is even more important when revenues are flat or not growing as quickly because the state should be spending money on programs that work, not the opposite.

Both the PEER and LBO committees should be able to use cost-benefit analyses of the state’s return on investment in state agencies, followed by using evidence to make policy going forward. VanLandingham said

“Gov. Phil Bryant’s signing of the bill shows he has sided with the cell of lawmakers and entrepreneurs commissioned to commandeer the City’s municipal airports,” Yarber said.

“We will not yield to the legislation, but will challenge its constitutionality. Senate Bill 2162 is unconstitutional and not supported by either state or federal law.”

Council President Melvin Priester Jr. said that the Council and the City are ready for the legal battle, but he could not comment on particulars.

“I expect this to be litigated furiously,” Priester said. “I can’t tell you the precise timeline because we are still setting up our legal strategy on that front.”

“The city attorney’s office is working very hard on this, and because this is going to wind up in litigation, I really can’t say much,” he said.

‘This now goes to administrative law courts, and I am confident that the FAA and the courts will do exactly what they did with respect with Charlotte.” State officials in North Carolina tried a similar “takeover” effort in Charlotte in 2013, which is still tied up in court.

“And the end result will be after much legal wrangling the City of Jackson will continue to have the airport operated by the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority,” he added.

Pridgen and the JMAA Board, for the moment, will continue to collect signatures for their petition. And the rest of Mississippi will await the upcoming legal battle.

Email city reporter Tim Summers, Jr. at tim@jacksonfreepress.com See more coverage of the airport “takeover,” including links to documents, at jfp.ms/airport.

the rollout process can take up to a year.

What Works in Other States To understand the origins of the Results First initiative, one should take a trip to Washington State Institute for Public Policy, lovingly called WSIPP. The institute was founded in 1983 and is recognized for taking evidence-based policymaking and cost-benefit budgeting seriously. Results First modeled its program after WSIPP. Annie Pennucci, the interim director of WSIPP, said that her nonpartisan, evidencebased institute was established to undertake policy studies, on anything from juvenile justice to mental healthcare or transportation, assessing a policy or piece of legislation’s impact on the state’s people and budget. Pennucci said her institute does much more than some legislative bodies, who examine one or two studies to establish a basis for policy.

“Instead of finding two studies, we try to find all of them,” Pennucci said in a February interview. WSIPP serves as a middle ground on policies—taking both sides’ studies they use to support or oppose a policy as a starting point to explore the entire strata of data that exists on a topic. WSIPP has a comprehensive benefit-cost analysis on their website of programs in Washington state ranging from juvenile justice to K-12 educa-

tion. WSIPP also reports what doesn’t work with what works, so they provide credibility to some bills (which are likely research-based) and dis-credibility to others. “People have found that to be very compelling,” Pennucci said. “Of course, we are only one small piece of the overall decision-making process.”

VanLandingham said the Results First approach has been rolled out in very red and very blue states—from New York to Alaska— and has helped ease some partisan divide on policy. “At the end of the day, policymakers will argue about how much money they want government to have and how much the state will invest in certain policy areas,” VanLandingham said. “But on both sides people want to fund things that work.”

Barker said the evidence-based, costbenefit mindset would give state agency budget writers every tool they need to make better decisions. “It’s going to be a slow process to bring the entire committee along, but I am looking forward to it,” Barker said.

“I think we got a great group of people on there—(it’s) a bi-partisan group and that (means) both sides can be behind it.”

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priorities for state governments, so if a program is proven to work elsewhere and it would be cost effective in the state, it becomes valuable and viable to fund. And instead of basing funding on one or two studies, policymakers and budget writers can look at the whole spectrum of research on a topic.

The Pew Charitable Trust and MacArthur Foundation both support the initiative in more than 22 states.

The new Performance Based Budgeting Committee was designed to implement the Results First initiative in the House, and Mississippi’s PEER and LBO offices have access to the Results First software the Results First director, Gary VanLandingham, says.

“By providing very robust evidence on here’s what the impact of those policy choices can be—I think it helps bring people together,” VanLandingham said.

The Results First initiative has four steps in its process. The first is “create an inventory of currently funded programs.” Barker said this process began in 2014 as the House Appropriations Committee took inventory of the state departments of education, corrections, transportation and health.

The House Performance Based Budgeting Committee will continue to look at other state departments to complete the inventory of how state agencies operate and identify

right track. So that’s where we are going with all of that.”

The JMAA is circulating a petition for the FAA that can be found on its website in an effort to convince the FAA to IMANI KHAYYAM

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edgar Wiley Evers looked down from the wall of the memorial pavilion in the airport named after him upon the chairwoman of the soon-to-bereplaced governing commission as she lamented the governor’s signing of SB 2162 into law.

“It is a sad day in Mississippi when a city that owns its airports is stripped of its ownership by those that do not own it, and seek to justify its power-grabbing reach by claiming we are here together,” Dr. Rosie L.T. Pridgen, who chairs the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority, said during a May 5 press conference at the facility.

“Some of the most negative impact this could have is, number one, it says to our children and other citizens that you can own something, you can follow the rules and so forth, but if someone decides that they may choose to change it (they can) without real logic, without making any business sense,” Pridgen said. “That’s a message we don’t really want to be teaching.”

“Ownership of the airports belongs to Jackson. Its citizens should not be disenfranchised by someone else arbitrarily deciding these are the things that we want to happen, we want to take your property, rearrange it and tell you in essence how you should operate,” Pridgen said.

JMAA is preparing a legal battle, but not rushing into a lawsuit, she said, choosing instead to see what the Federal Aviation Administration has to say about the “takeover” effort. “What we are saying to our citizens is that we are not going down that road yet,” Pridgen said. “We are petitioning FAA. We really do believe that the decisions to really change all of this still have the opportunity to be put back on the

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ocuments, including emails, released to the Jackson Free Press indicate that despite protestation from Mayor Tony Yarber and his administration, the City has been dipping into the ordinance-protected reserve fund to fill in shortfalls from last year’s budget.

A memo dated May 2 from Jackson’s Director of Administration Michelle BatteeDay, sent to Mayor Yarber, Chief Administration Officer Gus McCoy and Robbi Jones of Kipling Jones and Co., shows that the city had to dip into the emergency-fund reserve to meet the demands of last year’s budget. “Based on an ordinance approved by the city council, the requirement for the unreserved fund balance in the general fund is 7.5 percent of the adopted revenue,â€? the memo states. “The FY15 adopted revenue budget was $122,378,560 of which 7.5 percent ($9,178,392) should be set aside as fund balance.â€? “My question,â€? Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon asked at a special council meeting on May 9, “is how in the world when we have set the reserve by ordinance many years ago ‌ that that could be depleted to the point that it is right now.â€? “We did this many years ago to ensure the financial stability of the city, and if this has been violated, that’s a very, very serious situation.â€?

Municipal ordinance has required this “fund reserve� since 2004, which is designed to be the City’s ace-in-the-hole for any budget shortfalls or unforeseen expenditures, along with the “fund balance,� or the amount left over from the previous year’s budget.

The memo states that the City had a carryover from fiscal-year 2014 of $16,168,423.

This “fund balance� is a common practice with municipalities, and from that the “fund reserve,� required by ordinance, was set aside, in an amount of $9,178,392, or 7.5 percent of the total revenue for the City. This amount was designed as an emergency fund to cover any unforeseen expenditures including those incurred during natural disasters, like seasonal hurricanes that hit the region.

So, then, for the fiscal-year 2015 budget the city had a cushion of $6,990,031 to cover any shortfalls for the budget that the administration crafted and the council approved.

However, after using the $6 million to fill in the fiscal-year 2015 budget, “unfortunately, at FY15 year end, the City needed $11,177,398 to close 10 out the budget, creating a deficit of

Mayor Tony Yarber didn’t show up to a special Jackson City Council meeting he called because its members added budget questions to the agenda.

$4,187,367,� the memo states. “We have been saying since 2014 that the practice of using the fund balance to balance the budget was going to catch up with us,� Mayor Tony Yarber said in a statement released May 9. “That is the reason we started the transition to priority-based budgeting last year.� “It’s also what we knew would happen after the FY16 budget proposed by the Administration was greatly augmented by the City Council before final approval. What we are seeing should not be a shock to anyone,�

Yarber added.

Whether or not the mayor had warned of the problems with using the “fund balance� to cover the budget, the City had to cover the $4 million from somewhere, and so they pulled from the emergency “fund reserve,� which meant that the amount for that account would fall below the ordinancerequired 7.5 percent.

Yarber called the special meeting on Monday, May 9, to talk about public-works contracts, but the council added the reserve question to the agenda in advance of the meeting. Yarber, citing conflicts with the Levee Board meeting in Rankin County, sent Deputy Chief Administration Officer Marshand Crisler in his stead.

Council President Melvin Priester Jr. asked Crisler about the budget numbers, who responded that the mayor wanted to push back the meeting until he could be present.

“And at this point,� Crisler said, “the mayor did indicate that if the issue came up about the fund balance, and the budget as a whole and the audit, that he respectfully requests that he be given the opportunity to be present at the meeting and that we recess that meeting until it be done.�

Copies of emails between city officials, including council members and the mayor, indicate that the mayor tried to back out of the meeting when the council added the budget questions to the agenda. “Mr. President,� Yarber wrote to Priester in the email chain, “am I to understand that this budget information will take precedent over the original purpose for my request of this meeting? If so, I’ll respectfully withdraw my meeting request and ask for a budget meeting at a separate time in order to give Finance an opportunity to refocus.�

Finance, however, had already informed the mayor of the issue more than a week earlier. The department also warned that the

draw on the fund reserve balance could affect the still-incomplete audit of the city’s finances, even if the city decided to alter the amount required under the ordinance from 7.5 percent to 3 percent of the total revenue. “Should the City choose to not lower the fund balance requirement, we will receive a negative finding on the FY15 audit,�

Battee-Day wrote in the May 2 memo. “Although, lowering the requirement is not the ideal choice it does serve as a mechanism to avoid the negative finding. Unfortunately, we were not informed of this potential mitigating action until our audit firm returned to the City on Thursday, April 28.�

Not only has the administration known in some degree the budget problems since April 28, Battee-Day stated in her May 2 memo that she could have had an agenda item prepared to address the ordinance with the city council by mid-day May 3.

Sludge Solution Ahead?

The Jackson Department of Public Works has recommended a new “sludge� contract to haul away of waste stored in the wastewater plants. An Environmental Protection Agency consent decree gives the City until 2017 to remove the waste. “The first phase was the solids removal from the storm cells at Savannah Street,�

Public Works Director Kishia Powell said during a May 4 interview. “That was removed and put into those big geo-tubes that are out there. Now we have to cut those geotubes and dispose of it off-site.�

Public Works has recommended a contract with PSI-GA LLC to haul away sludge, after issuing a second request for proposal in the fall after the city council rejected a contract with Denali-SGE twice. Council members questioned connections between the mayor and the owner of SGE, Socrates Garrett, who was his largest campaign contributor. If the administration agrees with the contract, it will be placed in front of the council for final approval.

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Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes, would include a mandatory 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine, would communicate that discharging a firearm in the city is an act leaders take seriously, while not overstepping the statutory limits placed on municipalitybased punishment.

“We need to send a strong message,” Council President Melvin Priester said.

The ordinance, however, left room for “legal” uses of a weapon in the city, addressing Ward 4 Councilman De’Keither Stamps’ concerns about shooting snakes and other animals in one’s yard, as well law enforcement’s use of firearms.

The ordinance passed the committee unanimously and will be on the agenda for the next City Council meeting on May 17.

Stamps authored the other ordinance, to place a moratorium on check cashing, title loan, pawn shops and liquor stores in Ward 4. “I got a new notice from legal about some language that needs to be changed around,” Stamps said during the council’s May 2 meeting. He did not specify the questionable language.

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Public Works Director Kishia Powell said her team does not recommend publicworks contracts based on the mayor’s political relationships.

Guns, Payday Rules Sidelined Two proposed ordinances—to regulate guns and payday lending—would have significantly altered municipal policy, but were sidelined back into committees for more reconsideration this week.

One, the ordinance increasing the potential penalty for discharging a firearm in the city limits, went back to the Rules Committee, which met May 9. Ward 6 Councilman Tyrone Hendrix supported the ordinance, saying it would be preferable to covering up the danger for his children.

“Did you hear those fireworks?” he said, looking down as if to speak to his daughter.

The new ordinance, introduced by

ning Committee meeting, describing the 30-plus check-cashing storefronts on Ellis Avenue. He said then that the moratorium would give city leaders the opportunity to evaluate the priorities for zoning.

“Let’s pause and see how we want these areas to work together,” Stamps said.

City Clerk’s Office Recognized A resolution honoring the Jackson City Clerk’s office passed the Council unanimously during the May 3 meeting with a standing ovation to the oldest office of the city government.

“Y’all do all the work,” Ward 4 Councilman De’Keither Stamps said.

“We just talk a lot.”

Council President Melvin Priester Jr. laughed, adding, “That’s more true than you know.”

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Powell said that the recommendations within her department are designed to keep her department in a “bubble” away from influence.

“I don’t steer,” she told the Jackson Free Press. “I have specifically told our staff that our evaluations are to be our own, they are to be done based on the information in the RFP.” Powell said that she told Mayor Tony Yarber when she was hired that she was not just there “to be a figurehead,” and that as a professional engineer she has to adhere to ethics requirements. “No one tells me how to evaluate and assess,” Powell said. “And I expect my staff to do the same thing.”

“There is a lot of politics involved when it comes to the work that we do,” Powell said. “There is a lot of money involved in the work we do.”

“So you have a lot of folks trying to influence various people’s decisions. Not mine.

I stay in a bubble, pretty much.”

The contract is just one part of a larger agreement between the City and the EPA to address conditions of the wastewater facilities and “sludge” with the required completion date of late 2017.

The Council recognized City Clerk Kristi Moore and her staff during Clerk’s Week.

took a picture with the council and mayor in front of the Council bench, showing off a plaque created for the occasion.

“We are on a very tight schedule,” Priester said, pointing out that sometimes the clerks have to turn around important documents, like meeting minutes, on a very short deadline. “Where before that used to be an impossibility for the City of Jackson, and it caused the City of Jackson to lose money and not be able to take advantage of opportunities, the Clerk’s office now … they get it done.”

Priester highlighted the Clerk’s integration of new software to allow citizens to request documents without a visit to City Hall. “I too wanted to express your thanks for what you do, not only for the Council but also for the City,” Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon said.

Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes said that the Clerk’s office of today is an improvement over the clerks of the past.

“We can remember the time, Councilmember Barrett, when the City Clerk’s office used to put out material with misspellings and everything else,” Stokes said. “The Clerk’s office are special, hard workers, and we are just thankful for the staff.”

Mayor Tony Yarber praised the resilience of the office to mediate between the different branches of the government during his own proclamation, calling their office the “front door of the city.”

“I’m really impressed with y’all’s ability to work between the administration and the city council,” Yarber said. “I know you work for the city council, but I never at any point feel like there are any problems created because of that dynamic.”

“So I just wanted to thank you for your extreme professionalism and your ability to be able to meander through seven bosses and all of the things that happen in the couple of floors above you,” Yarber said.

At Odds Over 1-Percent Tax Mayor Tony Yarber and a member of the 1-percent sales-tax commission disagree over whether or not the City of Jackson can leverage the funds to pay for loans to address crumbling and dilapidated water and sewer infrastructure.

Yarber believes the City can use 1-percent sales-tax revenue to pay off some of the $11-million revolving loan from the State for water needs. The bulk of the loan is allocated for capital improvements at both of the water plants, to replace cast-iron pipes and to finish construction of a water line at O.B. Curtis.

The Jackson City Council approved the loan May 3, and the Mississippi Department of Health will facilitate.

When asked if the plan was to use water-sewer revenue to pay the amount due on the loan, Yarber was clear about his intent to use 1 percent funds.

“To be honest with you,” Yarber said, “it was never a question of whether not we would use water-sewer funds. It was always the idea that we would go back and use 1 percent (money).”

“Inherently, that’s the issue with the commission. There’s this idea that the commission is responsible for approving blobs of money at a time. And that is wrong,” Yarber said. “There have been some issues on the commission as to understanding the role.

The commission’s only role is to approve a master plan.”

“So right now, to some degree, the commission is acting like the Council, when ultimately that’s not how that is supposed to work. And we are going to fix that,” the mayor added.

On the other side of the debate is James “Pete” Perry, the chairman of the Hinds County Republican Party, who Gov. Phil Bryant appointed to the commission. Perry believes the mayor is trying to out-step the authority of the City to dictate how the funds can be used.

“The commission has never talked about replacing water lines throughout the city. The commission has not talked about borrowing 11 million dollars and paying for it with 1 percent money. It is certainly not in any master plan,” Perry told the Jackson Free Press in a May 6 interview.

“And unless the commission came and voted to put it in a master plan and then approved it as an expenditure, I don’t believe they can touch the 1-percent money to do it, and I don’t believe the state will loan that money without such an approval,” Perry continued.

“Because the state is going to look at how are you going to pay it back.”

Documents mentioned in this story are posted at jfp.ms/documents. Email city reporter Tim Summers, Jr. at tim@jacksonfreepress.com See more local news at jfp.ms/localnews.

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rom as far back as I can remember, the words “big” and “fat” have been a calling card for emotional distress for me. When I hear either of them, I want to wrap myself into a ball and disappear. It doesn’t matter if they are directed at me or not. Even if I know they’re just that: words. They don’t define who I am or govern my life. But they remind me of who I once was and what I once endured. Good or bad, words have power.

As I neared teenage years, my family became my anchor in life. But in my early years, surely without knowing, they were the source of my hurt and created a since of self-doubt in me. They taught me to be unsure of myself.

They led me into a life of insecurity all by the simple words they used that taunted me then and for years to come.

Regularly, my male cousins told me I was fat. I never heard from them that I was beautiful or worthy of any type of praise. I was just the little cousin who was fat. I may have been referred to as “cute but fat” at times, but that didn’t resonate after I began to understand that fat was not something good.

Even when it brought me to tears and often resulted in my running away to my closet to hide, it still brought them joy to see they’d created this reaction.

It didn’t get better as I matured. Even when my body began to look more womanly early on, those tags still followed me. Sure, I started to get more attention and compliments from classmates and neighborhood friends, but the damage was done, and I simply didn’t believe it. I’d learned by that time that I was unattractive and unworthy of the good words. So I replaced big and fat, in my spirit, with everything else you can think of: dumb, ugly, worthless, pitiful.

As I’ve grown mentally, I’ve come to realize that those words have set the course for my entire life. They created who I’d be and what I’d think of myself. Thinking myself worthless led me to an abusive relationship that lasted 11 years. I didn’t have the esteem or pride to know that I deserved more. I certainly didn’t have the strength to demand that I be treated better. For years, I was silent and uninvolved in life. I watch society do this to women daily. It’s a terrible force on social media, with memes of scantily dressed women posing seductively dancing across the screens. We even see women who have overcome tremendous obstacles and excel being referred to derogatorily. Women who have no body shame are being ridiculed for showing their frames.

I know someone will read this and think that just because someone uses a word to describe someone, it doesn’t mean that’s who they are. I know. I used to justify the use of the word “bitch” by asserting that I wasn’t one, so it didn’t bother me. However, that doesn’t really speak to how a woman who has been called that in a fit of anger or maybe in the middle of a fight feels about hearing it. It’s dismissive and rude to think that one can utter a word and it not bother someone else. Or to even excuse the fact that they are responsible for what hearing that word again can do to that woman. It’s just a matter of decency.

Ralph Ellison said, “If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.”

If words are powerful enough to build us up, then certainly one can see they’d be strong enough to tear us down. I’ve had to rebuild my own selfawareness to overcome what words did to me, and now I am intentionally cautious to not contribute to being that downfall for another person. It’s really a simple feat.

Whether it’s to a family member, friend or just a simple post on social media, be thoughtful of the language you use. Words have a power that often goes unnoticed. But once uttered, they cannot be unheard. Let your words be positive and inspirational instead of creating a life of damage someone will one day have to overcome to exist fully.

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Using Evidence to Bridge Partisan Gaps

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f all the things the Legislature did this year, a budgeting strategy that could potentially save the state wasted dollars in the longterm and ensure taxpayer dollars fund successful programs emerged as a priority, albeit a quiet one, of the legislative leadership. It emerged in the form of a new committee in the House: the Performance Based Budgeting Committee.

Performance-based budgeting sounds like a lot of buzzwords, but at its essence, the idea is simple: ensure that taxpayer dollars are funding programs that have been proven to work and funding agency programs based upon that criteria.

The process works like this: If a program has been proven to work to a degree now defined in Mississippi state law as “evidence-based,” it deserves to be funded, based on its performance.

If a program cannot meet the evidencebased threshold, then it needs to soon. In a state where revenues have been lulling and budget shortfalls continue (the legislative leadership announced yesterday that fiscal-year 2017 estimates were $56.8 million over what originally planned for), prioritizing taxpayer dollars to programs that work makes even more sense.

Mississippi is not in a position to spend money frivolously, and legislative leaders recognize this. In 2014, they published a strategic plan called “Building a Better Mississippi” which served as an almost 30-page testimony to their “commitment to move this great state forward by holding state government accountable for maximizing the results that it

achieves with your taxpayer dollars.” A couple years later, things are changing. The state’s corrections department is getting rid of an inmate program that is “paramilitary” in nature and not evidence-based and replacing it with a program that is. Not only is the new program evidence-based, but research shows it reduces recidivism, something that politicians from either side of the spectrum can support.

That’s another potentially great thing about performance-based budgeting: the ability for parties to work across the aisle, regardless of a supermajority, to support good policy decisions. Performancebased budgeting is ultimately about creating policies and laws that actually work and are cost-effective for taxpayers. While parties can squabble about big or small government, every lawmaker should be able to agree that if we’re going to fund a program, it needs to be proven to work. This type of budgeting is working in very red states (like New Mexico and Alaska), as well as very blue states (like Washington state and New York).

Performance-based budgeting was written into Mississippi state law in 1994, but it had not really taken off to influence policymaking or budgeting like it should until now. We applaud the legislative leadership’s efforts to implement a strategy that has positively impacted policies in other states.

And while it requires some lawmakers to meet all summer long, we think the efforts are well worth it to make sure in financially difficult times, our taxpayer dollars are being spent in the most evidencebased, cost-effective manner.

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ast month, I read Donna Laddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s article about violence, gangs, policing, teens, education, drugs and poverty in Jackson (â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Hunger to Live: The Struggle to Interrupt the Cycle of Violence in Jackson, April 20, 2016, posted at jfp.ms/ preventingviolence).

Regardless of your thoughts about crime in the City, I strongly encourage you to take the time to read the article. It is the most in-depth policy piece anyone has done on crime, poverty and ideas for dealing with crime (other than â&#x20AC;&#x153;lock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em up, throw away the keysâ&#x20AC;?) in Jackson for quite some time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When is the City going to get serious about crime?â&#x20AC;? outstrips even â&#x20AC;&#x153;When are you going to fix that pothole?â&#x20AC;? as the most common question I receive as a city councilperson.

From social media sites like nextdoor.com to neighborhood forums in the Queens and Presidential Hills, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that the people of Jackson desperately want to see a reduction in crime.

Because the people of Jackson are so frustrated at the moment about crime, it is tempting for us as civic leaders to do something, anything, regardless of its actually efficacy. At the same time, if an approach to crime canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be condensed to look good on a push card or a social media site, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard for us to create the space to consider or advocate for innovative approaches to reducing crime.

Given those realities, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critical for the City of Jackson to have solid coverage of our efforts to try new approaches at crime reduction. It is equally critical that the citizens of Jackson engage with such reporting.

Ms. Laddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent article is, to my knowledge, the only reporting that covers what happened with the Metro Area Crime Elimination program that received so much coverage last year. Her exploration of how this attempt to reduce crime played out in practice is significant. As Ms. Ladd noted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mayor Yarber was straightforward that the program wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t executed as it was designed to be, even after his administration and others made a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;grand announcementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; about the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, I think a couple of real important pieces were missing,â&#x20AC;? Yarber told the JFP. That included â&#x20AC;&#x153;social development after we went in and cleaned up the neighborhoods.â&#x20AC;? That is, the carrot. In addition, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do as good a job as we should have on data collection.â&#x20AC;?

The evaluation of that program was appreciated. Yet, what I appreciated even more in Ms. Laddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s article was her attention to Mr. John Knight. Quoting Mayor Yarber, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you lived in Jackson growing up â&#x20AC;Ś you

knew John Knightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name. He and his crew ran the streets.â&#x20AC;? Mr. Knight spoke during public comments a few weeks ago at a city council meeting and made an impassioned plea to the mayor and council to work collaboratively with him to fight crime.

The idea of working with a former drug dealer to prevent violence turns the usual conceptions about crime fighting on their heads. Perhaps, however, we should join Ms. Ladd and Mayor Yarber in considering whether Mr. Knight and men and women like him can be effective in combating violence in the City after causing so much of it. With regards to Mr. Knight, Ms. Ladd quotes Dr. Gary Slutkin, a medical doctor and epidemiology professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago Public School of Health.

Dr. Slutkin has championed an epidemiological/public-health approach to violence prevention called Cure Violence (cureviolence.org).

Dr. Slutkin notes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;it sounds like the city is missing the structure around (Mr. Knight), and enough of him.â&#x20AC;? Ms. Ladd reports that the mayor is more guarded, saying he is â&#x20AC;&#x153;not sure how to use (Mr. Knight) just yet.â&#x20AC;?

Like Mayor Yarber, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say yet whether Mr. Knight is the genuine deal. I do know, however, that working with him or people with a similar background is not a crazy idea. Richmond, Calif., for example, has been hiring people like Mr. Knight for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peacemaker Fellowshipsâ&#x20AC;? via an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Office of Neighborhood Safety.â&#x20AC;? Cities around the country have implemented or are evaluating similar programs.

What happened with the Capitol Complex Bill shows the extent to which Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crime issues supersede and impact even our infrastructure woes. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at a point where everything should be on the table if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effective. We need to try new things, plain and simple. To do that, we need to be able to see what other places are doing.

At the same time, when we do try new things like MACE, we need to know what happened and if these new methods were effective and implemented as promised (or not). Simply put, we need to be pragmatic, experimental and accountable. Ms. Laddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s article touches on all of those themes while at the same time putting a human face on kids we so readily dismiss as â&#x20AC;&#x153;thugs.â&#x20AC;? You genuinely should spend the time to read her whole article, and I look forward to the publication of any follow-up coverage.

Read and comment on the article and several follow-ups at jfp.ms/preventingviolence. org. Melvin Priester Jr. is the Jackson City Council president and represents Ward 2.

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uty chief academic officer when she left in 2013. Now, having served as Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state superintendent for the past two years, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excited for the future of education in the state.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked in extremely high achieving districts and those that struggled. The experience of working in two districts that invested in a variety of rigorous programs for students convinced her all students deserve the â&#x20AC;&#x153;leg upâ&#x20AC;? afforded by special after-school programs and advanced coursework.

Wright lives in Madison County. She has two grown daughters and a grand-dog.

She recently sat down with the Jackson Free Press to talk about education legislation, school funding and charter schools.

How do you like Mississippi?

ABOUT DR. CAREY WRIGHT Carey Marlene Wright, Ed.D., state superintendent of education Education: B.S. Elementary Education, University of Maryland, College Park, 1972; M.S. Administration, Supervision and Curriculum, University of Maryland, College Park, 1976; Ed.D. Education Policy and Planning, University of Maryland, College Park, 1994 Family: Two daughters, one son-in-law, granddog

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the end of the school year, and the Mississippi Department of Education is expecting budget cuts to everything but the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education funding formula MAEP, even though Gov. Phil Bryant hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t signed the appropriations bill into law, yet. Regardless, Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent of education, says the Mississippi Department of Education is busy; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state assessment time. She hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even had time to listen to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lemonade,â&#x20AC;? yet, although she says sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big BeyoncĂŠ fan.

Mississippi education keeps Wright occupied. While the Mississippi Legisla-

ture was in session this year, Wright collaborated with former Colorado Lt. Gov. Barbara Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, and nationally renowned education specialist and researcher Hedy Chang in order to present at the Capitol on chronic absenteeism and about the effects of poverty on early-childhood literacy.

In a Senate Education Committee meeting, when Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, asked her why the Literacy-Based Promotion Act passed reading-deficient students to the fourth grade even if they tested at the lowest proficiency level, Wright immediately and firmly responded that it was

due to the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legislation that the bar was set so low; the Mississippi Legislature had set it there themselves.

But Wrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal as state superintendent is to raise education standards, not just in third-grade literacy. Born and raised in New Mexico, she received her bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and doctoral degrees at the University of Maryland. As an educator, Wright has taught in a school district as it launched a controversial desegregation program.

Wright used her passion for education to help transform the public-school district in Washington, D.C., where she was dep-

How are challenges you face here different or the same as the ones in D.C.?

D.C. suffers from the same level of poverty that Mississippi does. In that, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very similar. And even though youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about an urban district versus a pretty rural state, some of the things are very similar.

Some of the children have never been out of D.C., like some children here have never been out of Mississippi. Their experiences are limited in that way. Student achievement was a struggle, and it continues to be not only for DC, but also for Mississippi.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dealing with children, regardless of where that is, and wanting all kids to be able to read and do well in school so that they can be successful in life whether thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, or a career, or college. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s those kinds of things that I think are very similar. Before I went to D.C., I was in two

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home now. I love the people. I love my job. I love what I do. I love the challenge of the job. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a great team to work with. Everybody comes to the table with the same sense of urgency for the children of this state, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really ask for more than that.

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children who are smaller.

I think that that extended dayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of research out there that says

What legislation are you proud of?

youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got more children. So, JPS being a large district, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when a charter company will come in. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for where can they grab a lot of kids. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where JPS landed with the first two and the third that will open in the fall.

But I think that the charter authorizer board I serve on puts these charters through a very rigorous process. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not â&#x20AC;&#x153;apply, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re automatically in.â&#x20AC;? We require them to really come in with a strong financial plan, a strong board thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to support and oversee them, and then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of criteria theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to meet that a lot of other schools are going to meet. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to take the same assessments, their children are held to the same level of rigor. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re allowed by law to approve up to 15 a year, but you can see how selective weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been that we only have two, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have three next year. Now the next round of applications is open, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see what that brings us.

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They bumped up the proficiency piece of the Literacy-Based Promotion Act. Starting in the 2018-2019 academic years theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to score (tests) above the two lower achievement levels, which is a much higher bar than they currently have right now. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hopeful that the legislation around the achievement school district will If you had provide an opportunity for us to do some really wonder$10 billion for ful things for children in the Mississippi state. I was pleased with that. education, what I was pleased that they would be the first also changed another part of thing youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d spend the legislation in the LiteracySen. Gray Tollison, R-Oxford, helped author the original money on?

Literacy-Based Promotion Act, and amended legislation Based Promotion Act that this session. Wright says she is pleased with the legislationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A good chunk of it, if gives children a bigger opporMRGVIEWIH TVSĂ&#x;GMIRG] WXERHEVHW tunity to meet that good-cause With the question of funding, not all of it, would go into exemption if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a child how will that continue to early childhood education, I can tell you that. I think that we are only if we could extend the daytime or we with a disability. It formerly had read that impact that district? right now investing $3 million, and other could extend the year for some children you had to have had two years of intensive states are far, far ahead of us in terms of their then that would benefit them versus them reading instruction and have been retained, Part of what happened with JPSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;part investment. And I think with the little ones having the two months off when they have and to me that was a little bit of a perverse of your funding from the MAEP moneys in poverty, if you get them in a high-quality so much of the summer to slide. And ben- incentive. So they changed the word to â&#x20AC;&#x153;orâ&#x20AC;? that are given out is based on a level of avearly-childhood program and a language- efit them not only in academics but also so I can have two years of reading instruc- erage daily attendance. When your average rich environment with all the reading ma- in (personal) enrichment. Part of your tion, or have been retained for good cause daily attendance drops, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re averaging terials and all the ways we teach children to day might be focused on $5,000 a student, well, JPSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; socialize and cooperate and problem solve, academics, but the other ADA dropped significantly.

I think that our state would be so much part could be on learning So when that dropped, further ahead if our children really had a to swim or learning to play meaning they lost about quality four-year-old program. That would tennis.

1,000 children in their ADA, probably be one of the first things. well thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $5 million right If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s any money leftoverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; there. The charter schools (laughs)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;I would invest in more rigorous What is the only own about 200 of those coursework for our high-school students. most farchildren, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important I think that whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dual credit, dual reaching concern when you start tracking atenrollment, or an IB or AP program, our you as state tendance that you grab these children need that opportunity. When you superintendent kids early that are starting to get to college, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the wake-up time for a lot either drop out or not comhave? of kids that kind of got out of high school ing to school for whatever thinking â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can do this,â&#x20AC;? and then all of a Probably I would say reason so you can be proacsudden, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on your own if you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we expect tive about that. had that level of rigor or challenge in your enough of our children. I So there are two parts to thinking or what it means to put together think the moment you set that: I think that thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going Dr. Cedrick Gray, superintendent of Jackson Public Schools, says to be important to JPS movan entire report from beginning to end and out with doubt, children JPS has budget concerns, but not a budget â&#x20AC;&#x153;crisis.â&#x20AC;? Wright says ing forward. The money that do some research and a lot of writing. I will sense that. But if you the district should be conscious of ADA going forward. follows the child is the same think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something I would afford for set high expectations for proportion of MAEP money all our students, not just high school. children and provide this support that they need, children can do exemption. I think that gives a little more that all other districts get as well, because they What about after school? just about anything you tell them that leeway for teachers. become their own district, if you will. they can do.

So I think that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be interesting to Both the districts I worked in in MaryI think they really need to believe that see now that the (charter school) law has land and in D.C. had a lot of programming, someone believes in them. It helps them Considering the financial changed somewhat if charter authorizers are and I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an invaluable part that a along the way, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just throwing condition of JPS and the still going to want to go to JPS, or if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll lot of children can really benefit from. And them off into the deep end of the pool- City of Jackson, how do you want to go to other areas of the state, benot a babysitting service but a time they can itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helping them figure out how to get think the growth of charters cause itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opened it up a little bit for them. get engaged whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a homework fol- there. I think that holds a lot of children will affect that district? low-up or itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tutoringâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a lot of communi- back, because we just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect enough ties offer that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be an opportunity for our of our children.

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:5,*+7 IURP SDJH What do you think will help Mississippi the best? Is the answer charter schools?

What are your ideas for Mississippi education?

Education costs money. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no two ways about it. How much does education cost? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to vary from state to state depending on what the economy is like but to put in inventive or innovative kinds of programs or expand our

we lost half of our school, and we gained another half of our school, and the half of the school that we gained were African American children who had never gone to school with white children ever. There was no preparation for the teachers. We literally closed school on a Wednesday, were off on Thursday, and on Friday, in come these kids, and out go these kids on buses.

I think the realization for meâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I was teaching fifth grade at the timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was looking at all of these little faces that were two and three years below grade level, and they were in fifth grade. I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This IMANI KHAYYAM

To me, I think charters are an answer for some children. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usually a smaller environment; usually itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit more focused around a particular theme and innovation that they want to do. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think charter schools are going to take over Mississippi ,nor do I think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the answer for everything around education.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a very strong public-education advocate so I think for us we need to do the best that we can to make public education in Mississippi the best it can be because I think our stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy depends on it, our childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future depends on it. So the question is, how do we look at the schools and teachers and principals that we have, and how do we build their capacity to build a stronger program for children?

this and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten us this far, do we need to look at something differently to move us ahead? I expect them to look around the nation and see whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on.

If you could rank the MAEP formula, how strong do you think it is?

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I think it was built originally around what we call a C district and â&#x20AC;&#x153;adequateâ&#x20AC;? was defined as whatever a C district was spending. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of rules and regulations inside this formula, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to say that. I think what the :egislature is trying to do and what I think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably do during this upcoming year is take the time to see what other states are doing and how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re funding education.

Other states are dealing with poverty and rural parts like we are, but there are other ways to fund education. I think for 20 us itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stepping back and saying, we did

What impact do you think consolidation is going to have on schools in the Delta?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not so much the consolidation as it is creating a school of a size where you can provide adequate programming. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been a principal of a school larger than some of our districts, so that kind of puts it into perspective for you. The idea behind consolidation is you get more of an economy of scale with regards to programming. You can provide a lot more when you have larger numbers of kids together. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough when you have tiny little districts and even tinier little schools within them to really provide a strong program.

Is it a one-size-fits-all?

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to look at it district by district, area of state by area of state, because another thing you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to have happen is to have schools so far apart thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way to consolidate. I think every consolidation has to be looked at by where geographically youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do that.

I do think I expect the Legislature to come back this coming year with more bills around consolidation.

As lead teacher of the teachers, is there a future that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping different for Mississippi teachers as well?

Having been a teacher as well, I have a real affinity for teachers. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the rubber meets the road. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where all the magic happens. For me, I want our teachers to feel that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supported. I want them to feel that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got an adequate amount of resources in order to meet childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs. I want them to be able to experience leadership positions that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require them to leave the classroom. A lot of teachers want leadership positions and experiences but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to leave the classroom. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a variety of ways you can do that.

So for me, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatever opportunities we can provide them so they can feel on top of their game at any given time.

to even level, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really where my focus started to be on kids.

When does education work best?

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CTE (Career and Technical Education) or expand computer science or things of that nature, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to require some funding. What does that level of funding looks like? I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to take an equity piece into it as well, because I think some districts have the ability to raise a lot more local money than other districts. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to figure out a way thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be compensative for some of that. If I can only raise 5 dollars, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all I can raise, but if I happen to be in a place that can give me an additional ten, I can do more with 15 than I can with five. So I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be looking atâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; how can we level the playing field around the state for all the children.

What inspired your love for education?

Desegregation occurred in the district I was working in as a teacher. Mid-year,

is just a travesty.â&#x20AC;? It was no fault of these children. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it going to take to ensure that these children are going to be successful? These kids are competing against kids who have had that kind of an education.

To catch up in fifth grade, you can do it, but it takes you a lot longer to get there.

As I worked through being a teacher, and I seemed to have a passion for children who needed me the most, those kids who werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reading well or had behavior problems, I usually ended up with them in my classroom because teachers would say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Give them to Carey Wright.â&#x20AC;?

As I became a principal, it was again: What are we doing for those kids who need us the most? I always say that there are children who learn because of you and children who learn in spite of you.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t challenge the kids that are above because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to continue challenging them. There should never be a ceiling for any child, but the little ones who need the most help to get

When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the right leadership.

Leadership starts at the top. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to have a principal that is passionate about what he or she does and focuses on children and then believes in teachers, supports them and makes sure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the professional development and resources that they need and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling like the capacity is being built and delivered to children. When everybody is focused on everything in the best interests of children.

Sometimes adults get in the way because they want to focus more on adults than on children. We have to keep the focus on whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important in the building, and that is the children we educate every day, and having a sense of urgency about it. Today is the only day theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got, so if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make today the best it can be, when tomorrow comes, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lost that day for that child. What is it we can do now thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best we can make it on Wednesday, because when Wednesday ends and the kids walk out the door, they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get Wednesday back. The focus has to be them every single day. Parents are entrusting their children to us. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to earn that trust.

Sierra Mannie is an education reporting fellow for the Jackson Free Press and The Hechinger Report. Email her at sierra@jacksonfree press.com. This story has been edited for length and clarity.

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After a nail fiasco and the task of getting ready taking a long time, the bride and maid of honor were late, so the groom had to talk Judge Ivory Britton into staying while the Sarah Gayden and Mary Sanders drove from Fondren with the windows rolled down to dry their nails.

Luckily, Sarah Gayden made it to the courthouse just in time for the couple to marry in 2015 (their goal) on Dec. 18, and to take some fun and memorable photographs to share with family and friends.

(The maid of honor also served as the photographer.)

Because they kept it simple and as small as possible, Andy says, “The good thing (about the day) is that we remember everything about it, and weren’t worried about anyone or anything else. It was a day just to ourselves, that was about us.”

Sarah Gayden adds, “I wouldn’t do it any other way.”

As they think back on the day, and on what formalizing the union and their family means, Sarah Gayden says, “I cannot tell you the overwhelming feeling of security” that comes with marriage. She says it’s evident in their relationship with the kids, too.

Julie Skipper is a friend of the bride.

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hen Sarah Gayden Hammond (then Harris), met Andy Hammond at Sneaky Fest at Sneaky Beans in Fondren in August 2011, she was wearing a Raggedy Ann and Andy shirt. Hammond says her first boyfriend was a Raggedy Andy doll, so her friends thought it was funny that she met Andy that night. Their relationship began with putting all their cards on the table, and for them, it just clicked.

As Sarah Gayden tells the story, she went to Sneaky Fest with work colleagues from Mint the Restaurant during a rare solo day out while her daughter, Eva Claire Courson, was with her dad, Shappley Harris. Andy, also a young parent (a father of two boys, Walt and Davis), was there with a group of friends as well. A mutual one, Matt Fitzsimmons, introduced the two. Sarah Gayden asked Andy to buy her a beer, and she says he said, “You should know, I’m liberal as f*ck, and I have two kids.”

Sarah Gayden says that with that moment of honesty, she knew they were a match, because having a child herself, “There’s no room for playing games,” she says.

The feeling was mutual, and Andy followed up the meet-cute with a text around midnight. Two days later, she drove to Philadelphia, Miss., where he lived for work as an attorney for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, for a date. Andy nervously made dinner (pork tenderloin—a love of food is something the couple shares) and, “Within a week, I met his parents,” she says.

The couple dated for about four years, and when Andy proposed, it was in a way that was private and intimate and at home, much like that first date. Sarah Gayden says, “It was at 5 a.m. in the bedroom. Nobody else heard it; it was just us, in the dark of morning, which was great, because who you love is with you in the dark moments of life.”

When it came to planning a wedding, they similarly kept it simple.

“I never had a wedding ‘vision.’ And we have three kids (between us),” Sarah Gayden says. “It’s all about them, so I just looked at Andy and knew that at the end of the day, I just wanted to be married to him; a wedding (ceremony) was never something I fantasized about.”

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f people are at a show at downtown venues such as Big Sleepy’s or headed to the King Edward Hotel, they may notice Downtown Snack Shop’s blue neon sign glowing among the street lights.

The convenience store is the first business of its kind in a long time for downtown Jackson. Inside, near the drink refrigerators in the store sits a boiled-peanut vending

“I’m a people person,” she says. “I love people. I don’t see color when it comes to anyone. I love different cultures; I love people and their different ideas; I love people to tell me, ‘Oh, you make my day better.’ …

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machine. Off to the left is a Starbucks refrigerator, and near the back is a shelf full of medical and health supplies and other items. Near the front, TVs on opposite walls play different channels.

LaQuita Wilson opened the store in January. On March 15, the business had a ribbon-cutting ceremony, which Mayor Tony Yarber attended.

Wilson says she used to go downtown when she had a lot of things happening, and would walk around and try to clear her head. “(I observed) how everybody (who) worked down here, they always enjoyed walking and getting a break, and I was like, ‘They don’t even have a convenience store,’” she says.

She remarks how different downtown is now compared to how it was 30 years ago.

“Every corner, every building had something going on,” she says. “It was so beautiful. … They had shoe shops, coffee shops; they had different kinds of restaurants.”

When she was about 20 years old, she began working at a BP gas station on County Line Road. At first, she was going to college for nursing. She was going to be a medical assistant but then decided against it after her internship, as she says she didn’t like to see anyone sick and sad.

“I’d be so depressed, and I didn’t even know the person,” she says.

It was then that she decided to focus on plan B, which was management. At 23, she became an assistant manager at an Exxon in Clinton, and two years later, she became a manager there.

management. Years ago, she says a customer told her that she should own her own convenience store. While she initially brushed off the idea, it always stuck in the back of her mind.

She says that owning a gas station is expensive, so she decided that she wanted to have a little corner store.

“That’s what led me to do my own thing and get my own convenience store,” Wilson says.

In August 2015, she began the process to open her business. She says the space for the business had to be gutted and remodeled.

“When I first saw this place, it was … how can I put it? It was a dump,” she says.

“Seriously. Everybody was like, ‘I don’t see a vision.’ I was like, ‘Listen to me, it’s a vision.’

Every time I brought something, they were like, ‘I don’t think that’s going to work.’ I was like, ‘Just do what I say. Let’s get up in here and get this place cleaned up.’”

The store currently has its liquor, cigarette and lounge licenses. In the near future, Downtown Snack Shop will begin serving short-order meals such as pork-chop sandwiches, fish, burgers and chicken. She says the goal isn’t to compete with restaurants in the area such as Parlor Market, so she’ll be cognizant of what the store serves. In a couple of years, Wilson hopes to have more than one location for the Downtown Snack Shop, and is already eyeing spaces.

Downtown Snack Shop (205 W. Capitol St., 769-572-4349) is open Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from noon to midnight. For more information, find the business on Instagram.

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Sally Mann signs copies of “Hold Still” at Lemuria Books.

The Jane Austen Film Series is at the Eudora Welty House and Museum.

The Earth Color Workshop is at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

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(Left to right) Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley of Florida-Georgia Line perform Saturday, May 14, at the Baptist Health Systems Madison Campus.

The JPS Community Chat is from 6 to 7 p.m. at Lanier High School (833 W. Maple St.). Learn about the variations in the state’s test over the past three years and other aspects of the testing process that may reduce the district’s accountability label. Free; call 601-960-8700; jackson.k12.ms.us.

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The Habitat Young Professionals Crawfish Boil is from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Crawdad Hole (1150 Lakeland Drive). The networking event with food and prizes is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capitol Area.

BYOB for ages 21 and up. $20 at the door; call 601-3536060; email lclark@habitatmca.org. … Blast from the Past, Pt. 2 is from 6 to 9 p.m. at Sneaky Beans (2914 N. State St.).

Includes house music from artists such as DJ Scrap Dirty, DJ Sketch and Spirituals. Free; find the event on Facebook.

SATURDAY 5/14

C Spire Live: Florida-Georgia Line is at 6 p.m. at the Baptist Health Systems Madison Campus (401 Baptist Drive, Madison). Performers include Florida Georgia Line, Cole Swindell, The Cadillac Three and Kane Brown. This is a rain or shine event. $68, $138 VIP; call 800-745-3000. … Willie Sugarcapps performs at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Will Kimbrough, Grayson Capps, Corky Hughes, Anthony Crawford and Savana Lee make up the Americana band. Hugh Mitchell also performs. Doors open at 7 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-292-7121; email arden@

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American Craft Beer Week begins at Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Ave., Suite 201). Saltine hosts a special event each night in conjunction with American Craft Beer Week. Includes Ramen Night on May 16, Tiki Night on May 17, a beer and tapas pairing dinner on May 18, Imperial Beer Night on May 19 and Bring in the Funk Fest May 20-21. Prices vary; call 601-982-2899; saltinerestaurant.com. … “Mamma Mia!” is at 7:30 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The musical is about a bride-to-be’s search to determine who her biological father is. $25-$85; call 800745-3000; jacksonbroadway.com.

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FRIDAY 5/13

Pops III: Pepsi Pops at the Rez is at 5 p.m. at the Ross Barnett Reservoir (Madison Landing Circle, Ridgeland).

Opening acts and Pepsi Playground at 5 p.m., the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra’s concert at 7:30 p.m. and fireworks.

Alcohol and glass prohibited. $12 in advance, $15 at gate, $5 24 ages 4-18, under 4 free; call 960-1515; msorchestra.com.

SUNDAY 5/15

Jackson Greek Fest 2016 is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Holy Trinity—St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Church (5725 Pear Orchard Road). Includes food for sale, music, dancing, a Greek marketplace and children’s activities.

Additional dates: May 13, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., May 13, 5-10 p.m., and May 14, 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Free; call 601-3556325; greekfestjackson.org.

House is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Meet the artists, see their latest works in progress and enjoy refreshments. Free; call 601-9601557, ext. 224; email vsamississippi@gmail.com. … Author William Dunlap signs copies of “Short Mean Fiction” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N.). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $29.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

WEDNESDAY 5/18

Variants performs at 7:30 p.m. at Big Sleepy’s (208 W. Capitol St.). The New Orleans-based alternative-rock band performs to promote its latest album, “Commonwealth.”

Patrick Stumped, Harbor and Table Manners also perform.

For all ages. Doors open at 7 p.m. $5 in advance, $7 at the door; tandum.com/bigsleepys.

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12th Annual JFP Chick Ball July 16, 6 p.m.-midnight, at Hal & Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (200 Commerce St.). This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus is children who are victims of domestic abuse. Includes food, door prizes, a silent auction, poetry and music. Benefits the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence. For ages 18 and up. Seeking sponsors, donations and volunteers now. $5 cover; call 601-362-6121 ext. 16; email chickball@jacksonfreepress.com; jfpchickball.com.

NAMI Mississippi State Conference May 12, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., May 13, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.).

At UMMC Conference Center. The keynote speaker is Dr. Mary Giliberti, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Registration required. $50, $45 regular members, $20 consumer members, $20 students with ID, $100 professionals; call 601-899-9058; namims.org.

Jackson Greek Fest 2016 May 13, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., May 13, 5-10 p.m., May 14, 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m., May 15, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Holy Trinityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Church (5725 Pear Orchard Road). Includes food for sale, music, dancing, a Greek marketplace and more.

Free; call 355-6325; greekfestjackson.org.

#/--5.)49 JPS Community Chat May 11, 6-7 p.m., at Lanier High School (833 W. Maple St.). Learn about the variations in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s test over the past three years and other aspects of the testing process that may reduce the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accountability label. Free; call 601-960-8700; jackson.k12.ms.us.

Habitat Young Professionals Crawfish Boil May 12, 5:30-8:30 p.m., at Crawdad Hole (1150 Lakeland Drive). The networking event with food and prizes is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capitol Area. BYOB for ages 21 and up. $20 at the door; call 601-353-6060; email lclark@habitatmca.org.

Rabies Vaccine and Microchip Clinic May 14, 8 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Animal Rescue League (5221 Greenway Drive Ext.). Free rabies vaccinations are available to dogs and cats ages three months and up. Microchips also for sale. Dogs must be on a leash, and cats must be in a carrier.

Free rabies vaccines, $25 microchips; call 601-4202438; email bigfixclinic@msspan.org; msspan.org.

Healing Our Hearts Seminar May 14, 2-4:30 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). In the Community Room. TAPS in the host, and speakers include historian Pamela Junior, style expert Chirvona Frank and licensed counselor August Patton. Free; call 960-1500; email hathor601@aol.com.

Magnolia Ballroom Dancersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association Monthly Dance May 14, 7:30-10:30 p.m., at Madison Square Center for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madison). Dances are held on second Saturdays unless otherwise indicated. Water, setups and snacks provided. $15, $10 members; call 601-9427335; email janephillips45@yahoo.com.

Dillardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Summer Bridal Extravaganza: What to Do Before You Say â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Doâ&#x20AC;? May 15, 2-6 p.m., at Dillardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Northpark Mall (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). Bring your wedding party and enjoy facials, makeovers, glamour shots and more.

Free garter with registry. RSVP with the number of people in your group. Free; call 601-957-7100.

Town Hall Meeting May 17, 6-8 p.m., at Hinds Behavioral Health Services (3450 Highway 80 W.). The topic is â&#x20AC;&#x153;SPICE: Damaging Minds and Ending Lives.â&#x20AC;? Free; call 601-321-2400.

/>VÂ&#x17D;Â?i < May 14, 4 p.m., at Jackson Preparatory School (3100 Lakeland Drive, Flowood). The event formerly known as Blondes v. Brunettes is an annual womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powder-puff football game.

Proceeds benefit the Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foundation of Mississippi. $10; call 987-0020; crowdrise.com.

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Pops III: Pepsi Pops at the Rez May 13, 5 p.m., at Ross Barnett Reservoir (Madison Landing Circle, Ridgeland). Gates open at 4:30 p.m. Includes opening acts and Pepsi Playground at 5 p.m., the Mississippi Symphony Orchestraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concert at 7:30 p.m. and fireworks. Alcohol and glass prohibited. $12 in advance, $15 at the gate, $5 ages 4-18, under 4 free; call 601-960-1515; msorchestra.com.

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When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having bad day, remember that even future Hall of Fame players have bad days, too. Spurs forward Tim Duncan went scoreless for the first time in his postseason career of 249 games.

THURSDAY, MAY 12 College baseball (6:30-10 p.m., ESPNU): The University of Mississippi looks to climb from its third-place spot in the West with a battle against the University of Kentucky, who is trying to climb from fourth in the East.

FRIDAY, MAY 13 College baseball (6-9 p.m., SECN+): Mississippi State continued its chase of first-place Texas A&M as the Bulldogs look to down the Auburn Tigers.

SATURDAY, MAY 14 College softball (noon-2 p.m., CBSSN): Watch to see if third-seed USM makes it to the championship game of the 2016 C-USA Softball Tournament. â&#x20AC;Ś College softball (4-6 p.m., ESPN): See if Florida or Kentucky, the top two seeds, wins the championship game of the 2016 SEC Softball Tournament.

SUNDAY, MAY 15 College softball (9-11 a.m., ESPNU): Watch this viewing of the championship game of 2016 SWAC Softball Tournament, where the winner gets an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.

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Jane Austen Film Series May 13, 7:30 p.m., at Eudora Welty House and Museum (1119 Pinehurst Place). Enjoy a screening and discussion of the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Emma,â&#x20AC;? based on Jane Austenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book.

Free; call 601-353-7762; eudoraweltyhouse.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mamma Mia!â&#x20AC;? May 16, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The musical is about a bride-to-beâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s search to determine who her biological father is. $25-$85; call 800-745-3000; jacksonbroadway.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I Grow Upâ&#x20AC;? May 17, 5:30 p.m., May 17, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). The Ballet Mississippi Lower School performs. $10; balletms.com.

MONDAY, MAY 16 MLB (6-9 p.m., ESPN): Kansas City hopes to shake their World Series hangover with a win against the Boston Red Sox, who are in second place in the American League East.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 Documentary (7-8:30 p.m., ESPN2): ESPN Filmsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;30 for 30: Believelandâ&#x20AC;? chronicles the heartbreak of Cleveland sports since the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last championship in the 1964 NFL Championship Game.

Duncan also picked up four fouls in the first half for the first time in his career, and the Thunder even held him without a shot attempt for the first in his career, regular or postseason.

Follow Bryan Flynn at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports and at facebook.com/jfpsports.

Big Sleepyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anniversary Weekend: Alternative Show May 13, 8 p.m., at Big Sleepyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (208 W. Capitol St.). derek, Living Together, Brian Hillhouse and Pinebox perform. For all ages. $5 in advance, $8 at the door; tandum.com/bigsleepys.

Recognize the Real 2 May 13, 9 p.m., at Hal & Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (200 Commerce St.). In the Red Room.

7even:Thirty, SilaS, Marcel P. Black, PyInfamous, Dolla Black and Marco Pave perform. Doors open at 8 p.m. $10; email garrad.lee@gmail.com; elegant-trainwreck.com.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) UĂ&#x160; Ă&#x160; Ă&#x20AC;iĂ&#x17E;Ă&#x160;EĂ&#x160; Â&#x153;vĂ&#x20AC;Â&#x153;Ă&#x160;May 13, 9 p.m. The Ben Miller Band also performs. $30 in advance, $35 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; ardenland.net.

UĂ&#x160;7Â&#x2C6;Â?Â?Â&#x2C6;iĂ&#x160;-Ă&#x2022;}>Ă&#x20AC;V>ÂŤÂŤĂ&#x192;Ă&#x160;May 14, 8 p.m. Will Kimbrough, Grayson Capps, Corky Hughes, Anthony Crawford and Savana Lee make up the Americana band. Hugh Mitchell also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-2927121; ardenland.net.

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Floetry May 14, 8 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart make up the R&B duo from London.

Doors open at 7 p.m. $45-$55; call 800-745-3000 or 678-322-8098; xperiencejxn.com.

Variants May 18, 7:30 p.m., at Big Sleepyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (208 W. Capitol St.). The New Orleans alternative-rock band performs. Patrick Stumped, Harbor and Table Manners also perform. For all ages. $5 in advance, $7 at the door; tandum.com/bigsleepys.

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Ann Saundersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Islamic Art Exhibit Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through May 15, at International Museum of Muslim Cultures (Arts Center of Mississippi, 201 E. Pascagoula St.). See works from Tougaloo College professor Ann Saunders.

Free; call 601-960-0440; muslimmuseum.org.

VSA Mississippi Community Art Group Studio Open House May 17, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.).

Meet the artists, see their latest works in progress and enjoy light refreshments. Free; call 601-9601557, ext. 224; email vsamississippi@gmail.com.

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From there, she began touring internationally and released her debut studio album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;My World,â&#x20AC;? in Japan in 2006. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All this time, I was still based in Jamaica, in Kingston, but still traveling everywhere, and then I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know what, I kind of want to take my music to another level,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Kelli says.

Then, in 2011, she connected on Twitter with Russell â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blockâ&#x20AC;?

Spencer, the CEO of Block Entertainment who hip-hop listeners may know from his work with artists such as Yung Joc, Boyz N Da Hood and Ciara. Through Jamaican-born pop vocalist Kris Kelli her research into which songperforms with Floetry, Saturday, May 14, at Thalia Mara Hall. writers, producers and artists she wanted to collaborate with, Kelli already knew that she needed to be in Atlanta, where Spencer is based, and planned accordingly. Kelli spent almost five when he said that he would be interested years on the recordings with producer and in working with her, she decided it was songwriter Jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rell to ensure that the album time to make the jump stateside. was the best representation of her sound. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was literally the next day after The single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Me and You,â&#x20AC;? features hip-hop that we followed each other, and some star Rick Ross, an artist with whom only a months after that, I left Jamaica for few years ago, Kelli says, she never would good, and I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make the move to have believed she would get to collaborate.

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Videonauts Have Landed

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Steven Pergande started projection-mapping company Videonauts in 2014.

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rom projecting images onto shoes, concert stages and any imaginable surface, video-projection mapping is a technology that, years ago, you would only see in movies set in the future.

Steven Pergande is the founder and CEO of Videonauts, a video projection-mapping company that transforms concert venue stages into 3-D psychedelic light shows.

Jacksonians most likely know Pergande by his stage name, Gandhi, which caught on like wildfire when his manager at Guitar Center, Chris Rawls, started introducing him by the moniker about four years ago.

“People began to catch on to the similarities in my last name and what my manager called me, and it just stuck,” Pergande says.

Originally from Orlando, Fla., Pergande has moved back and forth from Mississippi since he was 12 years old. He has made Jackson his home for the last eight years, and stage-projection mapping has brought him into the local electronic-dance music scene. He also works at Guitar Center in Jackson, where he often interacts with deejays, church audio engineers and artists.

Pergande says it all started when he helped run a friend’s studio that did live shows. The studio owner saw projection mapping at a nightclub in Florida and told Pergande and Joey Raines, a mutual friend who was a graphic designer at the time, about the effect.

“Projection mapping is an art form,” Pergande says. “It uses everyday video projectors, but instead of projecting onto a flat surface, the light from the projector is mapped onto any type of surface or object.”

With projection mapping, any object can turn into a creative 3-D video display, he says, and the technology can be applied to whatever the user imagines.

“You can project onto anything: shoes in retail stores, theater performances, deco-

rations, any sort of advertising and even on wedding cakes,” Pergande says.

He and Raines started playing around with video mapping as a side project. The duo wanted to get better at their hobby and started sharing ideas and tips. Over time, Raines became busy with other work projects, but Pergande continued developing and learning more about the art form.

One summer in 2014, he showed a local deejay, DJ Rozz, a video to give him an example of what projection mapping can do. Rozz wanted to know if he would be interested in creating a projection show for his next performance. He agreed.

Over time, word spread and more people wanted him to transform their concert-venue stages into live works of art, Pergande says. He realized that it was time to come up with a name for what was quickly turning from a hobby into business.

“I wanted a name that is spacey, and when I ran Videonauts by Raines, it hit home,” Pergande says.

Some promoters Pergande works with will ask for specific themed shows, so he often imposes specific pictures and videos into his projections. Others let him take the reigns and prefer to enjoy his style.

Pergande uses a variety of software, including Motion 5, Adobe After Effects and Resolume, when creating his sets. The visuals he creates dance to the music, and he also incorporates sound-active visuals, which help certain musical cues to leap out, such as a heart monitor projected onto a stage where the line spikes with every beat.

The 2015 Jackson State University Homecoming Gospel concert, which featured Dathan Thigpen, the winner of BET “Sunday’s Best,” is the largest event that he has worked on thus far.

Pergande has mostly worked in Jackson since starting Videonauts, but he says that he is looking forward to following his business wherever it takes him.

For more information, find Videonauts on Facebook.

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