Candidate: Allegra Kitchens

PLATFORM:

WORKING FOR YOU:

I will work to get the fire fee (tax) lowered each year until it can be done away with

I will work to stop the automatic water, sewer and garbage yearly increases

I will work to keep city hall, the police department and fire department in downtown Palatka

I will work to try to get industry and businesses in the city limits that will employ our residents

I will work to try to improve the lives of our current city residents.

CAPABLE: I will research every item on the agenda

KNOWLEDGEABLE: Palatka City Commissioner for nine years

HONEST: I don't sugar coat my answers, and will tell you the truth.

STRONG: I fight for citizens rights and don't back down

Biography:

Lifelong Palatka resident born in Mary Lawson Hospital. Attended Campbell Elementary School, Mellon Junior High School, and graduated from Palatka Senior High School. Awarded an Associate of Arts Degree from St. Johns River Junior College. Florida Real Estate Sales Associate License 1979-present. Member of First Baptist Church of Palatka since 1958.

Work:

36 years for the Putnam County Property Appraiser's Office 1969-2005, secretary Clint Snyder Appraisals 1986-2006. clerk at Anthony's Photo-Palatka Mall 1983-1986, personal assistant to Clyde Middleton Sr. Middleton Shopping Center-1977-1985,Palatka area correspondent for the "Putnam County Courier Journal" from 1995 -2002,feature article writer for the "Welcome" magazine 1995-2006. 9 years as Palatka City Commissioner, group 2, January 2006 to January 2015.

Public Service:

DAR(Daughters of the American Revolution)

ACLJ(American Center for Law and Justice)

NRA (National Rifle Association)

Putnam County Historical Society

City of Palatka Board of Zoning Appeals

City of Palatka Tree Committee (voting member and commissioner liason)

Alternate member-CATF-CDBG (Citizens' Advisory Task Force-Community Development Block Grant)

Citizen activist-attendes Palatka City Commission meetings (1987-2006,2015 to present)

Board of Directors: Palatka Riverboat, Inc.

Board of Directors: Pride of Palatka, Inc.

Conlee Mural Committee.

Palatka Codes Enforcement Board 1998-2005,

City of Palatka Better Place Plan Oversight Committee,

CATF-CDBG(Citizen's Advisory Task Force-Community Development Block Grant)

Palatka Police Partnership 1995-2005

Awards:

Received 21st Century Achiever Award from the Palatka City Commission 2004,

Listed in International Who's Who of Professional & Business Women 2000 and 2001

Certificate of Appreciation-Woman's Club of Palatka, Inc. March 2011

Awards:

Received 21st Century Achiever Award from the Palatka City Commission 2004,

Listed in International Who's Who of Professional & Business Women 2000 and 2001

Certificate of Appreciation-Woman's Club of Palatka, Inc. March 2011

Certificate of Appreciation-Young America's Foundation. Trailblazer member for generously helping to preserve Rancho del Cielo, beloved home of President Ronald Reagan and for enabling Young America's Foundation to bring the patriotic ideas and traditional values of the Reagan Revolution to our nation's youth-the next generation of American leaders-.March 4, 2013

NRA Defender of Freedom Award to recognize outstanding leadership and conspicuous achievement in defense of liberty and the preservation of the Right to Keep and Bear arms for all law-abiding citizens of the United States of America. May 2, 2016