The biggest decisions this council will make over the next decade involve technology, infrastructure, housing, and development. That’s the world I work in every day. I’ll negotiate from knowledge, not hope.
I’ve spent my career in the rooms where systems either work or they don’t. That’s the standard I want to bring to this council.
As Head of IT for Robins Kaplan LLP, I lead cybersecurity, infrastructure, and operations for a national law firm that can’t afford to be slow or sloppy. The biggest decisions this council will make over the next decade involve technology, infrastructure, housing, and development. Most councils approve those deals without anyone in the room who can read them. I can read them. I know how expensive a bad one gets, and how long the city pays for it.
I grew up in southern Minnesota as a Korean adoptee, often the only one in the room. I know what it costs a community when people get talked about instead of talked to. Every resident should be at the table before a decision gets made. The renter and the homeowner. The newcomer and the lifelong neighbor. The senior on a fixed income and the family just starting out.
I’ve served on boards for Habitat for Humanity, the American Heart Association, and others. My family and I live in Eagan, and we plan on being here a long time.
Most of this council’s biggest choices take years to pay off. The planning has to start now.
City services that work the way a well-run organization works. The money traces to outcomes. The council hears every part of this community, not just the loudest. When you call the city, somebody picks up. That’s the bar, and it’s not high enough today.
Smart oversight of future development, including the data centers everyone is courting. Eagan should weigh the real fiscal and environmental cost before we sign, not after. I’ve read these deals. I’ll negotiate from knowledge, not hope.
Housing working families can actually afford. Transit they can count on. When the people who teach in our schools and staff our clinics get priced out of the city they serve, we lose something a budget cycle can’t buy back.
Every person who pays for this place should get to be in the room before the decision gets made, not after. The renter and the homeowner. The newcomer and the family that’s been here three generations.
Jason Narverud
Jason and his family live here. This is home, and they plan on being here a long time.
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