Meet Dave Marlon: A Business-leader with a Heart for Vegas
While many talk about supporting working families, Dave has actually done it—as a CEO, union collaborator, and boots-on-the-ground leader in building treatment centers and turning around companies that serve the people. Dave believes being a business leader doesn’t mean anti-union—it means pro-accountability, pro-results, and pro-worker empowerment.
– 20 Years Sober & Proud – A recovery success story, Dave brings real-world understanding of the issues facing our communities.
– Behavioral Health Leader – Built Vegas Stronger, the largest mental health and addiction recovery nonprofit in Las Vegas.
– Business Builder – Former CEO of a managed care company and Ironman athlete who knows how to get results and build things that last.
– Proven Partner for Workers – Worked hand-in-hand with trade unions to ensure fair pay, safe conditions, and a stronger workforce.
Dave Marlon founded and built one of the most successful addiction recovery centers in the country in the heart of Southern Nevada. The 35-year Las Vegas resident, after successfully addressing his own struggles with substance abuse, realized that he was uniquely suited to help others confronting addiction.
Dave has been consistently recognized by his peers as a leader in his field. He is the Southwest Regional Vice President of the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors and received the 2018 National Advocacy Award from NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. Locally, he has been recognized as a graduate of the Leadership Las Vegas program, with the Mayor’s Commendation, and received the Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada’s Vanguard Award. He has served on the Governor’s Substance Abuse Working Group. Dave’s work in the recovery sector earned him the Inspired Excellence Award from Las Vegas HEALS.
Dave founded The CARE Coalition, The Solutions Foundation and Vegas Stronger, which combat substance abuse in Southern Nevada and help raise awareness about addictive behavior and its consequences. Dave has served on the boards of HELP of Southern Nevada and the Las Vegas Rescue Mission, He has also helped establish Mission High School, the first public recovery high school in the nation.
Vote Dave Marlon to Give Las Vegas a Second Chance.
The Issues:
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 firsthand 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.
Women for Dave
LAS VEGAS — David Marlon, running for the Las Vegas City Council in Ward 1, has earned the endorsement of former Nevada Senator Patricia Farley. Farley is also serving as the chief Co-Chair of Women for Dave, a coalition of leading Las Vegas women, friends and family of Dave Marlon who support him in his run for Las Vegas City Council, Ward 1.
“I have been fortunate to work with Dave Marlon on some of the most pressing issues facing our state, from crime to drug addiction,” Farley said. “There is no one who has more or better experience facing the challenges of local government than he does. I am proud to support him in his race to be Ward 1’s next city councilman and to serve as a co-chair of Women for Dave.”
Marlon founded and built one of the most successful addiction recovery centers in the country in the heart of Southern Nevada. “While at Solutions, I came to understand there are frequently challenges faced by women that need a tailored response. I will work diligently to make the communities in Ward 1 the safest, most inclusive communities in the state,” he said. “I’m honored to have these strong women by my side in this race.”
Victoria Quinn, Las Vegas planning commissioner for Ward 1, is also serving as a Co-chair of Women for Dave. “I have served on the planning commission for nearly 15 years, and I know Dave understands the issues facing Ward 1 better than any other candidate in this race,” Quinn stated. “I hope my Ward 1 neighbors will join me in casting their votes for Dave.”
Carolina Necochea Burgueño, who works in crisis stabilization and is a current UNLV graduate student studying Social Work, is the wife of David Marlon and is also a Co-chair of Women for Dave. She served 8 years of active duty in the United States Marine Corps. “My husband has been the difference maker in a positive way for many women in his life, and I know he will advocate for our issues as a City Councilman,” she said. “I was a single mother, and I know they need more opportunities to succeed, and flexible working environments. Dave understands these issues.”
Dave Marlon has been a Las Vegas resident for more than 30 years. He spent the past 11 as the CEO of Solutions Recovery, where he was recognized by his peers as a leader in his field. He is the President of the Southern Nevada Association of Addiction Professionals (SNAAP) and earned the 2018 National Advocacy Award from NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. Locally, he has been recognized as a graduate of the Leadership Las Vegas program, with the Mayor’s Commendation, and received the Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada’s Vanguard Award.
