As a business leader Dave understands that the mismanagement with the City of Las Vegas continues to lose our residents jobs, housing, and resources to Henderson and even North Las Vegas due to red tape. Dave will bring a new voice to make city government fast and efficient.
The city has squandered countless hard-earned tax dollars on homelessness while Dave Marlon opened a non-profit to solve the crisis. To Dave the solution is clear, these resources should be poured into programs that actually provide real results. The heat alone in the summer kills over 500 unhoused people in our city. This needless death must stop; we need to make it harder to live on the streets of Las Vegas: limiting vagrancy, panhandling, and providing resources to the programs that work to get people off the streets and back to work.
The current Councilwoman has failed to develop or implement a path for responsible growth for Ward 6. Dave has a proven Las Vegas track record for building consensus and moving forward. This means sustainably growing the ward, providing more secure and reliable jobs, adding community centers, churches, and developmental agreements that benefit the community.
Las Vegas shouldn’t be a city full of people living paycheck to paycheck it should be a city on a hill for those looking for a better future: this involves expanding Las Vegas beyond the hospitality capital of the world and to a city that accommodate every major industry from technology to artificial intelligence to healthcare to clean energy to filmmaking.
Dave recognizes that Las Vegans are suffering a major affordability crisis. With Las Vegas recently cited as having the worst urban unemployment rate in the entire country we need to do more to get our citizens back to work and able to afford the cost of day-to-day life. While Dave’s opponents have lobbied the state legislature and passed city legislation to extend tax credits that continue to gauge money from hard working property owners, fixed-income seniors, and young families Dave commits to not raising taxes, particularly in this harsh economic climate. On top of this, Dave champions the movement to revolutionize the housing market and create paths that allow for attainable homes for all Las Vegans.
Dave supports our first responders and supports law and order in our communities. Dave commits to keep all Las Vegans safe. In that regard, Dave will push for Ward 6 to have a second substation built within his first term and city ordinances that keep communities safe and happy.
Dave is immensely focused on education, as a Doctor of Psychology he understands first hand the benefits of enriching the mind. Dave pledges to work with the city to expand accessibility to childcare through our local community organizations. He vows to work closely with CCSD to fix the education gaps caused by the pandemic, the teacher shortage, and to drastically bring down the truancy rate and expand the graduation rate. Effective government can ensure that every child has equal access to education, literacy, and a path to a successful future.
Dave Marlon has a proven track record of turning vision into reality. With both Vegas Stronger and Solutions Recovery, he invested his own 401K savings to build companies that grew into organizations with more than 100 employees each. These ventures not only created good-paying jobs but also saved lives through innovative rehab and recovery programs. Dave’s entrepreneurial drive and commitment to community impact bring a perspective that is missing on City Council—and it’s the kind of spirit Ward 6 needs.
