Jim Gingrich

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Jim Gingrich

Nonpartisan

Elections and appointments

Last election

August 3, 2023

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Jim Gingrich ran for election for Mayor of Nashville in Tennessee. Gingrich lost in the general election on August 3, 2023. Gingrich unofficially withdrew from the race but appeared on the general election ballot on August 3, 2023.

Biography

Gingrich received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University. He previously worked as the chief operating officer of AllianceBernstein, an investment firm.

Elections

2023

See also: Mayoral election in Nashville, Tennessee (2023)

General runoff election

General runoff election for Mayor of Nashville

Freddie O'Connell defeated Alice Rolli in the general runoff election for Mayor of Nashville on September 14, 2023.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Freddie O'Connell (Nonpartisan)	63.8	72,989
		Alice Rolli (Nonpartisan)	36.0	41,205
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	123

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 114,317
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General election

General election for Mayor of Nashville

The following candidates ran in the general election for Mayor of Nashville on August 3, 2023.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Freddie O'Connell (Nonpartisan)	27.1	27,503
✔		Alice Rolli (Nonpartisan)	20.2	20,472
		Matthew Wiltshire (Nonpartisan)	17.0	17,193
		Jeff Yarbro (Nonpartisan)	12.2	12,356
		Heidi Campbell (Nonpartisan)	8.2	8,337
		Sharon Hurt (Nonpartisan)	6.0	6,104
		Vivian Wilhoite (Nonpartisan)	4.7	4,758
		Jim Gingrich (Nonpartisan) (Unofficially withdrew)	1.6	1,668
		Natisha Brooks (Nonpartisan)	1.4	1,458
		Stephanie Johnson (Nonpartisan)	0.6	581
		Fran Bush (Nonpartisan)	0.5	503
		Bernie Cox (Nonpartisan)	0.3	322
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	80

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 101,335
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• William Domann (Nonpartisan)
• Michael Rowan (Nonpartisan)
• Wisdom Zerit Teklay (Nonpartisan)

Endorsements

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Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Gingrich in this election.

Campaign themes

2023

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Campaign website

Gingrich's campaign website stated the following:

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PRIORITIZING AFFORDABLE HOUSING We’ve done multiple affordable housing studies. Each one tells us the problem is worse than the last time we studied it. It’s a shame that the unrestrained growth has priced so many people out of our city. Even the people who serve our city – police officers, teachers, firefighters, and other Metro workers – can’t even afford to live here anymore. While out-of-town developers are getting even richer, hard-working Nashville residents are stuck paying the price. Nashville ranks among the top 20 most expensive rental markets in the U.S. Put another way, a starting teacher might have to spend nearly half of what they earn on rent. Nashville residents are paying more than ever for housing, and more of our fellow residents are experiencing homelessness. Nearly half of Nashville renters are struggling to keep up with their bills. While the median household income in the area has risen by 11.5% over the last five years, rents have increased by 34% for a two-bedroom apartment, and housing prices have risen by nearly 35%. Every family deserves to live, work, and stay in Nashville. But we need a mayor to address the problem, not just study it. As mayor, I will focus on addressing the lack of affordable housing, the drastic increases in rents and housing prices, the inefficiencies in the systems we have in place, and equal access to transit, amenities, and the green spaces that make this city unique. The action I would take immediately: Adequately fund the Barnes Fund to turbocharge our non-profit affordable housing community. Use the city’s land holdings, much of which is ripe for affordable housing. Use a data-driven approach to prioritize the housing supply in areas that are especially hard hit by a shortage and focus on those areas in future projects. Reduce red tape and lead times for those building affordable housing. Reduce barriers to affordable housing, such as zoning that inhibits multi-family homes, micro-units, and accessory dwelling units. Cities already use various platforms that allow people to find out if an ADU is allowed, and we should follow suit. Work with the Metro Council and the state to create zoning laws that respond to Nashville’s needs. Bring third-party capital solutions to accelerate the renovation of existing MDHA properties and Nashville lands using the mixed-income model. Ensure that green spaces, parks, and amenities are fairly distributed across the city so that all our residents can enjoy all that Nashville has to offer and enjoy walkable neighborhoods no matter where they live. Build new housing that reflects the community and also has access to public transit, schools, and businesses so residents are able to afford their homes, the commute to work, and the necessities for their families. Focus on building homes that are affordable to middle-income Nashvillians. These homes should focus on those making 75% to 125% of the median income in Nashville and include benefits for first-time home buyers. Establish a housing finance agency to offer low-cost loans to local developers looking to work with the Tennessee Housing Development Agency sites. LOWERING CRIME AND INVESTING IN PUBLIC SAFETY Whether you ask school-time children, young adults, or retirees, Nashvillians of all ages and backgrounds are increasingly concerned about crime. Nashville’s homicide rate in the last five years is 54% higher than the previous five years and well over double the low achieved in 2013. In that time, auto theft has almost doubled, and when compared to similar cities, Nashville’s violent crime rate is 87% higher. These aren’t just statistics, they are the reality of life in our city, and we must be more deliberate and thoughtful about reducing those rates. There is no more important responsibility of the mayor than keeping our city’s residents safe. That starts with ensuring the Metro Nashville Police Department is appropriately resourced. Strategies we must deploy: Fully staff our police department and hire additional second responders. Equip MNPD with the appropriate state-of-the-art equipment and technology. Make reporting easier, more efficient, and monitored by a civilian data analytics group. Competitively compensate MNPD staff. Ensure our MNPD is the best trained and held to the highest level of accountability. This must be paired with a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary crime prevention strategy integrating community partners, non-profit and faith-based organizations, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Metro Social Services, and Metro Nashville Police Department. My strategy is rooted in empirically-proven practices drawn from cities across the U.S. and will be the sole focus of a new public safety unit that reports directly to me. This unit will coordinate the program and oversee execution across all Metro departments and community partners. Our strategies will include the following: Fully implement proven precision policing strategies across our county. Strengthen deterrence strategies, including gun and group violence intervention, community-based policing, and training capabilities based on proven successes such as the Urban Peace Academy. Build and scale investments targeted toward at-risk and opportunity youth, such as proven cognitive behavioral therapy, after-school programs, workforce development, wrap-around supports, and work-and-learn programs. Engage with community groups to deploy proven infrastructure and environmental strategies such as green spaces, lighting, and maintained public streets and spaces. EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY Every generation deserves the opportunity to build a better life. Unfortunately, in Nashville today, that is not the case. Nashville ranks at the bottom of large US cities in intergenerational economic mobility, meaning if you’re born poor in Nashville, you’re more likely to remain poor. Investment in education is the key to changing these statistics. While recent trends have been encouraging, no one in Nashville should be satisfied with the educational outcome for our scholars today. We can do better. I am committed to working with the superintendent and board to develop a comprehensive five-year plan to significantly improve outcomes for all of our children. The plan will integrate MNPS-based programs with support services summer jobs which will include the coordinated participation of other departments within Metro as well as non-profit and business partners. In addition, the plan will incorporate significant investment in vocational training and expanded pre-K. I will support the funding of that plan, and I will hold those responsible accountable starting with me. Key elements that I would like to see addressed in this strategic plan include: Increased investment in the development of a strong principal pipeline and the professional development, coaching, and training of our current school leaders. *We should aspire to a program that could train 25 future leaders per year and seek state funding to establish a state-wide center for best practices. Increased investment in our teachers, including increased time for instructional coaching/professional development, mental health support, recruitment, and retention. Ensure that every teacher has first-class instructional materials, easily accessible data to track student progress and needs, best practice lesson plans, resources, supplies, and mental health supports. Investments in the instructional resources needed to ensure all students can succeed. For instance, high-dosage tutoring and potentially second-elementary school classroom instructors in lower-resourced schools. Increased school programs, enrichments, out-of-school programs, and workforce development programs across MNPS, with the objective of meeting the needs of each student. Expanded investment in social-emotional learning and cognitive behavioral therapies to help students and educators. Emphasize a whole family approach through integrated child and family support networks from preschool until graduation. Prepare students for post-secondary success with improved career development, mentorship apprenticeship programs, and vocational training. TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE Traffic, transit, and transportation are just other examples of issues Metro has continued to study and not act on. As a result, the ability to get into Nashville quickly and move around efficiently gets worse by the day. Nashville rivals many other comparable cities when it comes to how much time we lose sitting in traffic and the risks we take while walking on the road. My comprehensive plan tackles traffic congestion and addresses our many modes of transportation, and recognizes the need for higher-quality public transit that is widespread and effective. Moreover, my plan seeks to have an immediate impact that will also have longer-term benefits – putting into action the many studies of transit in Nashville we’ve already completed. Pedestrian safety must be a priority. Unfortunately, there has been a rise in pedestrian injuries and deaths, which is just unacceptable. This means we need to be more adept at identifying particularly dangerous intersections, increasing the accessibility of buses, and using analytics through an upgraded traffic signal system. We also need to fix those crumbling roads and sidewalks that every politician has talked about for years. Previous mayoral plans and TDOT proposals have outlined a rigorous and cost-effective method to maintain safe sidewalks and bikeways, and implementing these proposals would help us take one more step toward making our streets safer for pedestrians. Improve sideways and bikeways Use a modern traffic signal system to give us analytics on problem spots and have a rapid response to those issues Uniform maintenance of our infrastructure across the city These measures don’t just address pedestrian safety. They also speak to the traffic on our roads. A better traffic signal system and the accompanying analytics will help us manage traffic across the city and afford us the opportunity to respond to high-traffic areas in real-time. More importantly, those efforts can help us respond to events that may contribute to traffic. However, most experts agree that the single most effective way to ease automobile traffic is to improve, expand, and increase access to our public transit system. Our bus system is outdated and hasn’t evolved with Nashville’s progress or with technology that helps buses run cleaner and more efficiently. One key component to this is to maintain our roadways using infrastructure grants and funds from all levels of government – city, state, and federal. Nashville is Tennessee’s flagship city, the seat of state government, and a tourist and business hub. We need roads that reflect that, and in doing so, will enable buses to travel more efficiently and spend less on vehicle maintenance. However, we need to go further. Previous studies and plans from city offices and TDOT have called for more dedicated bus lanes, better and faster routes on high-traffic corridors, and more transportation hubs. We have the data, we have done the math, and now it’s time to put those solutions into action. Increase the frequency of buses and the number of transportation hubs. Expand the number of routes and dedicated bus lanes. Upgrade our fleet. Improve our roads. Focus on busy thoroughfares such as Murfreesboro Pike and Dickerson Pike, and employ rapid transit options where possible. Improve our public transit to and from the airport and to commercial hubs to serve our city’s travelers and visitors. Provide an alternative, quicker mode of transportation to ease traffic congestion throughout the city. We need to make sure we are building a system that can last and evolve with the times. One of the most important things we can do is work with the Metro Council and departments such as NDOT and TDOT, as well as WeGo and BNA, to have an aligned vision going forward. We also need to look at ways the city can reallocate unused or underutilized land to help alleviate the parking shortage. I have a track record of working across numerous departments across and outside of the city and intend to do so again as Mayor. We want to improve but don’t want to be wasteful. Whether that means that we don’t repeat work other departments are doing, look for new funding sources through infrastructure grants, or work with our neighboring towns and counties to expand regional transit opportunities, we must build something that can last and respond to the challenges we might face in the years ahead. PROTECTING THE SOUL OF NASHVILLE As we manage the problems in our city and the growth that has affected all of us, we must ensure that we preserve what makes Nashville unique – our cultural institutions and amazing neighborhoods. We need to make sure that our artists, historic sites, and events across the city reflect the diverse facets of Nashville’s character. Revitalize efforts to build a strong cultural trust, create spaces that support artists and arts organizations, and help preserve historical and iconic cultural buildings. Consider the individual characteristics of each neighborhood, and incorporate those characteristics when considering infrastructure and housing plans. Build on NashvilleNext and create a better and more efficient way to solicit and incorporate community input in the various projects and efforts across our city. Focus on the restaurants, small businesses, and arts venues that have served as a central point for neighborhoods, emphasizing parks, greenways, and public spaces that complement our cultural institutions. IMPROVING CITY SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE Our infrastructure has been neglected, and the city has been allowed to grow without a plan to ensure we have the necessary infrastructure for this generation and the next. The more our leaders kick the can and sit by idly while our infrastructure crumbles, the higher the price tag on addressing the problem becomes. Throughout my agenda, a number of initiatives are based on improvements to our city’s service and transit infrastructure. Without taking these steps, we risk continuing to fall behind and amassing a problem we cannot afford to fix. The heatwave last summer and the winter storm in December showed us exactly how vulnerable we are, and we must act now to prevent these and other problems from spiraling out of control. Basic infrastructure, such as our electric grid, stormwater management, broadband, improved water services, sewer improvements, and waste management, is necessary and, frankly, long overdue. Modernize our approach to stormwater management and alleviate risks of flash floods. Work with Nashville Electric Service and TVA to ensure that we are using the latest technology, including the latest generation of Advanced Metering *Infrastructure technology and edge computing devices to help us better manage the demands on the power grid. Connect small businesses and corporations to incentives to make buildings more energy efficient and ensure that future construction will be built with the energy grid in mind. Expand Metro Public WiFi in public spaces to equitably and seamlessly connect the entire city. Utilize sensors and analytics to monitor water levels across the city, helping manage distribution within the existing sewage infrastructure. Take advantage of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s (TDEC) water infrastructure investments to upgrade drinking water systems, wastewater systems, and stormwater infrastructure – especially in communities that have been neglected in the past. In March of this year, TDEC announced 43 projects totaling over $200 million, that include 132 individual drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure projects. Considering that in Nashville, 74% of sidewalk construction costs are spent on stormwater drainage, TDEC projects are instrumental in improving our infrastructure at a lower cost. Bolster our waste management infrastructure through the increased universal collection, safer disposal and treatment practices, and prioritization of waste recapture. The American recovery and inflation reduction acts have money for infrastructure projects. That’s your money coming back to Tennessee and Nashville. It’s a no-brainer for the state to accept it and send it for projects in Nashville, and it’s up to the Mayor of our city to be the strongest advocate for it. ADDRESSING OUR HOMELESSNESS CRISIS There are many circumstances that may cause an individual to experience homelessness, among them; job loss, lack of affordable housing, mental illnesses, substance abuse, domestic violence, and/or illness/physical disabilities. There are a number of cities that have made significant progress in reducing their level of homelessness. We are going to create a department in my office that is responsible for overseeing these efforts. Priorities will include: Scale and align support services for those experiencing homelessness by: Promoting wrap-around services and supports for the homeless Increasing placements to permanent housing destinations Increasing access to shelters, safe havens, and interim housing Reward and incentivize providers that data shows are efficient and effective Significantly increase the stock of permanent supportive housing. Currently, we are constructing a city-paid-for facility Downtown that will have 90 units at a cost of nearly $300,000 per unit. But, we need several thousand units. Instead, our long-term strategy should rely on and incentivize the private sector, which can do it effectively and efficiently with little to no cost to the city. Drive all decisions with comprehensive data to assess the effectiveness and return on investment for funding programs and contracts, the success rate of keeping people from returning, and adjust our approach where needed while doubling down on measures and organizations that work. FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY We have become the pay more get less city. Nashville desperately needs a leader with a proven track record of managing a budget and being fiscally accountable. We spend seventy percent more per resident in this new fiscal year than ten years ago. Yet we struggle to keep our roads in good condition, pick up our trash, recover after storms, and keep our city beautiful. In the business world, you are not afraid to spend as long as there is a clear return on that investment. The problem with Metro is that our spending is up, but there is little return. Asking people to pay more and giving them less, at least in the real world, is not how to run things. We have become a big city, and we have big city challenges. Throughout my plans, I discuss these challenges and solutions. As mayor, my concern will be enhancing the quality of life of everyone who calls Nashville home. But to successfully address our big city challenges, we need to get more from every tax dollar than we do today. I will do what I did when I oversaw a multi-billion budget: go through the city budget line by line and ensure we are spending on the priorities that matter and that taxpayers are getting what they should expect from each tax dollar. It’s time we modernize Metro government to be up to the challenges of a fast-growing city.

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