John Liccione
for Gulfport Mayor
John brings a fresh set of eyes, ears, and a new approach to analyzing, designing, fielding, and operating systems that he's used throughout his career to solve society's seemingly intractable problems. His methodolgies have been developed and honed over his 4 decades within government and private industry. Having having invented patented Evergreen the worlds first and best real- time disaster recovery clould service for corporate email and Blackberries that won SC Maginzes "Best Disaster Recovery Service" in the world award after 9/11 in 2004. He brings these talents to Gulfport to better the lives of Gulfport citizens and to help grow revenue for our small businesses.
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John's In-Depth Answers to The League of Women Voters - St Petersburg Questionnaire
For a deep-dive of John's values, positions, belief systems, and skills, download and read his extended 14-page set of answers to The League of Women's Voters - St Petersburg candidate Questionnaire.
Hurricane Rebuild Red Tape & Economic Hardship
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Rebuild permitting too slow
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Tidal Basin Disaster Assessment Scandal
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No FEMA City navigators
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No sense of urgency at the top
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No performance measure system with KPIs
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No continuous improvement
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Scattershot citizen communication
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No creative economic relief
End City Procurement Fraud, Waste & Abuse
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Multiple no-bid sole source procurements over $35K
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Lack of procurement transparency
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Consent agenda abuse
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Procurement resolution contract value reporting.
Supercharge Gulfport Disaster Recovery Time Objectives - Economic Relief, City KPIs
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Implement performance measurement system for City services Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
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Investigate Tidal Basin, facilitate Citizen class-action lawsuits and refer to DOJ National Center for Disaster Recovery (NCDF) for disaster fraud investigation
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Organize Gulfport public protest in Tallahassee
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Permitting war room & surge capacity with field-mobile rapid deployent teams
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Recovery seminars at Scout hall & Zoom
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City rebuild project plan, weekly status reports
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Economic relief
Enforce Mandatory Competitive Bidding Laws
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Put City commodity IT service contracts out for competitive bids - No sole-source buddy deals
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​New ordinances requiringpublic disclosure of contract cost
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End No-comment consent agenda procurements exceeding $20K