On-The-Move People

Jim Rice of Fulton, New York has announced his Candidacy for the Mayor of Fulton, New York. 

Rice has a lot to offer in this role considering his life experience working and living his entire life in the City of Fulton. Rice was raised with the value of being a contributing member of the Fulton community and has lived his life aspiring to always serve the community through his service on various municipal task forces, committees, the Fulton Common Council, while he and his spouse Catherine LiVoti-Rice raised their family, worked and volunteered in various capacities to improve the lives of our community. Working at Tops for over 43 years, his managerial skills led to his promotion to the Meat Department Manager for 25 years, in management he learned skills working with the community meeting their needs and listening to their concerns. The Fulton community always knows he strides for the success of our community. Fulton as a community traditionally comes together to resolve our approaches to ‘seek common ground’. From 1992 to 1993, and 2003 to 2005 Rice served as the Second Ward Councilor, and spent several years as the Fulton City Democratic Committee Chair. Over the years with his employer he was the shop steward for the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union, Local One and this gave him another purview into negotiating difficult and complex interests. These are skills the City of Fulton needs in leadership to navigate our city to better outcomes.

Jim’s sense of oneness with our Fulton Community was instilled in him as Fulton Pride growing up, that carried forth into his life and into our community. We in Fulton feel successful when we are all moving forward. We have mutual needs as a community to provide for all, this includes having safe roads, community safety and law enforcement, healthcare (physical and mental), childcare, eldercare, recreation, efforts to draw in revenue opportunities to provide and enhance the lives of our citizenry. As part of that value of community we must listen to all voices. Jim has stated that he would commit to having a community discussion locally meeting with ‘We the People’ once a month on different topics of concern to listen to our community’s input, with a hybrid option for those that cannot attend in person. Let our aspiring future college media students facilitate hosting to engage more people in what it is to love the dialog of discourse, civil discussion for the betterment of future needs of our city. Civil discourse, which includes input from various vantage points, is a bedrock of our country, we are neighbors and we have mutual needs. We should ‘seek common ground’.

Economic Development is important. How we do that must fit with the values and needs of all of our citizens and support a community that looks to the future. Our waterfront needs our attention, our families need safe family friendly options. We need actions that piece our community together, before we can weave our country back together. Imagine what monthly evening movie nights could do for our citizens and our businesses at our beautiful parks combined with local eateries, food trucks or stands, a restaurant week, seasonal festivals, vitalization for our small businesses by people wanting to travel here and move here.

Over the last four to seven years we have lost our ability to listen to one another, and to be heard. Jim is a union organizer, a leader, a listener, a negotiator, a husband and father, Jim Rice is running to represent Fulton values as the Mayor of Fulton, City with a Future.