Episode 8 – Mayor Scott Conger – Conversations with the Candidates

Our final episode of Conversations with the Candidates is none other than Mayor Scott Conger. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Mayor Conger has had to deal with a lifetime of challenges in his first term as the mayor of Jackson. Only eight months after he took office, the Covid-19 pandemic hit Jackson. After navigating everything that went along with managing a pandemic, Mayor Conger was still faced with trying to balance a budget that had been passed with a defecit prior to him taking office. He and his team were able to balance it and come out with a surplus on the other side.

Along with being fiscally conservative, Mayor Conger has also focused on progressive approaches to invest in parts of the city such as the Love Your Block Program and the public/private partnership the city entered into in order to help build Madison Academic and Jackson Central-Merry Middle and High School.

Throughout our conversation, we discuss our shared history of growing up in Jackson, what it meant to have his grandfather as mayor, and how he plans to maximize the potential for growth in Jackson by being smart about how that growth happens.