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Portsmouth City Council

Vernon Lamont Tillage, Jr.

Candidate for Portsmouth City Council

No party listedIncumbent

Background

Occupation
Portsmouth City Council member; community affairs coordinator, Virginia Natural Gas
Campaign website
vernontillage.com

A Portsmouth City Council member since 2023 who previously served on the Portsmouth School Board (2021-2022). He is a community affairs project coordinator for Virginia Natural Gas.

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Documented positions

Taxes & budget

Housing

  • Proposes city land and zoning incentives for workforce housing.

    Portsmouth City Council election: Meet the candidates

    Candidate questionnaire · The Daily Press and The Virginian-Pilot (via Yahoo News) · yahoo.com

    “we should leverage city-owned land and zoning incentives to create designated workforce housing”
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Economy & jobs

  • Supports minority and women-owned business goals for waterfront contracts.

    Portsmouth City Council election: Meet the candidates

    Candidate questionnaire · The Daily Press and The Virginian-Pilot (via Yahoo News) · yahoo.com

    “I support mandating robust minority and women-owned business enterprises participation goals for upcoming waterfront contracts”
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Roads & infrastructure

  • Proposes freezing automatic water and sewer rate hikes.

    Portsmouth City Council election: Meet the candidates

    Candidate questionnaire · The Daily Press and The Virginian-Pilot (via Yahoo News) · yahoo.com

    “we must freeze automatic water and sewage rate hikes and aggressively secure state and federal grants to cover infrastructure mandates”
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Other issues in this race

Other candidates in this race addressed these topics. We found no documented position from Vernon Lamont Tillage, Jr. on them.

  • Public safetyNo documented position found.
  • Government & transparencyNo documented position found.

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