Leon County Commissioner Rick Minor is seeking re-election, facing challenger C.B. Lorch in District 3.
WFSU’s Tristan Wood spoke with Minor on Candidate Convos, a digital series featuring one-on-one interviews with local candidates in Tallahassee and Leon County ahead of the August primaries.
You can watch Minor’s full appearance on Candidate Convos here:
During the conversation, Minor pointed to recent infrastructure funding wins as an example of his focus on results-driven governance.
“The thing most recent that I'm very proud of is the North Monroe Safe Streets for All grant. It was a US DOT grant that we were awarded. We applied for that about two and a half years ago, didn't get the award, applied for it again a second time, and were awarded $16.8 million,” he said.
When asked about political fighting between the Tallahassee and Leon County Commissions, Minor said local government should focus less on political conflict and more on service delivery and preparing the community for economic change, including the impact of artificial intelligence.
“I think that people living in the city of Tallahassee and in Leon County, they don't really care about any of that, whether the city wins a battle over the county or the county wins over the city, or whoever's puffing their chest up the most,” he said. “They want to make sure that both Leon County government and the city of Tallahassee government, or are providing high-quality services in as most affordable ways possible."
One of the issues Minor said the community needs to prepare for are the workforce impacts of artificial intelligence.
“As a community, we need to prepare for people learning AI skills, so that in their job they can use AI to help their business be successful, as opposed to being replaced by AI,” he said.
