🗽 The New York Renewal & Resilience Act (NYRRA)

“A BETTR Future Starts Local.”

Date: April 30, 2025
Contact: Jason S. Arnold – Candidate for Governor, NY
📞 (516) 586-0660 | 📧 jaysarnold@icloud.com | 🌐 www.JSA2026.com

🧭 OBJECTIVE

To rebuild New York’s foundation by restoring community safety, protecting energy independence, reforming government hiring, addressing mental health and addiction, and expanding economic opportunity through bold local empowerment strategies.

🏛️ KEY PROVISIONS

1. Community Responder Corps (CRC)

• Deploy trained civilian responders—mental health professionals, social workers, and crisis de-escalation staff—for non-violent 911 calls.
• Create job pipelines for veterans, graduates, and certified crisis trainees.
• Redirect funds from non-violent incarceration to CRC operations.

2. Ban on Ideological Gatekeeping in Hiring

• Outlaws DEI pledges, political loyalty statements, and ideological litmus tests in public job applications and grants.
• Launches a new “Equal Opportunity Without Ideology” division for enforcement.
• Audits all state agency hiring practices for political bias.

3. Homestead Recovery & Reintegration Program

• Transfers foreclosed and tax-defaulted state properties to vetted residents in recovery, reentry, or working-class hardship.
• Requires participation in workforce training and therapy.
• Grants homeownership after 3–5 years of clean record, job participation, and community contribution.

4. Local Innovation Emergency Declarations (L.I.E.D.)

• Allows counties to bypass Albany bureaucracy with time-limited “Innovation Emergencies.”
• Empowers rapid local pilots: trade schools, addiction hubs, educational experiments, micro-enterprise zones.
• 24-month expiration unless renewed by local vote.

5. Microgrid Independence Mandate

• All counties must submit a microgrid power plan by 2030 to ensure emergency energy self-reliance.
• State grant matches for solar, geothermal, thermal storage, and small wind infrastructure.
• Protects against cyberattacks, blackouts, and utility failures.

📊 WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU

• 🚨 Over 40% of 911 calls in NYC involve mental health or addiction cases. Sending the wrong responder risks lives and lawsuits.
• 🏠 New York has 1.2 million vacant properties—many owned by the state or banks. Let’s turn them into homes, not hazards.
• 🔌 New York is ranked 49th in grid reliability. One cyberattack or major storm could paralyze half the state.
• 💼 Political gatekeeping is crushing trust. Qualified people are being excluded based on beliefs. That ends now.
• 🧠 Mental illness and addiction are at crisis levels. NY suicide rates have increased 32% since 2000. This is life or death.

⚠️ OPPOSITION WE MAY FACE

• State bureaucrats will resist giving counties more power and fast-track authority.
• Left-wing media & activists may oppose hiring reforms and homesteading eligibility rules.
• Utility companies and unions may push back on microgrid independence.

🛠️ HOW WE’LL OVERCOME IT

• Public support will be our weapon. 70% of New Yorkers want alternatives to incarceration and better crisis response.
• We’ll leverage state-controlled assets. Every vacant building and unproductive acre is revenue waiting to be unlocked.
• We’ll sunset all risky components. Innovation Emergencies will have built-in expiration to ensure accountability.
• We’ll let counties compete. Pilot counties will receive grants, recognition, and faster broadband/tech upgrades as incentive.

🔚 CONCLUSION

This is what real leadership looks like—taking the risk, owning the results, and never waiting on Washington to fix what New York can handle ourselves. The New York Renewal & Resilience Act is a 5-in-1 blueprint for saving our state.

Let the establishment stall. Let the critics whine. We’re moving forward—fast, local, and unafraid.

I’m not a good candidate. I’m the right one.

– Jason S. Arnold, JSA2026