{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Lee Harris","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"R","token":"lee_harris"},{"candidatename":"Worth Morgan","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"R","token":"worth_morgan"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":"shelby","districtgroup":"county","districtgroupname":"County","districtname":null,"job_type":"county_mayor","o.office":"county_mayor","office":"county_mayor","officedescription":"The County Mayor's Office is the governing branch of Shelby County's administration. It is responsible for overseeing the following divisions:\nAdministration and Finance\nCommunity Services\nCorrections\nDisproportionate Minority Contact\nHealth Services\nInformation Technology Services\nPlanning and Development\nPublic Defender\nPublic Works\nIt is also responsible for overseeing the Mayor's Action Center and the county's Public Affairs Office.\nThe Mayor's office is term-limited to two consecutive terms.\nThe Mayor is paid $210,000 per year.","officequalities":"- Executive management of a metropolitan county government of roughly 910,000 residents and a billion-dollar-plus consolidated budget across health, public works, corrections, the Sheriff's Office (administrative side), and many smaller departments.\n- Ability to negotiate and defend an annual budget before a 13-member County Commission.\n- Intergovernmental capacity: coordinating with the City of Memphis, six suburban municipalities, the State of Tennessee, and federal agencies, especially on shared services like MATA, MLGW, EDGE, and the Health Department.\n- Working familiarity with Tennessee county-government law, the Shelby County Charter, open-meetings, and procurement rules.\n- Public-facing communication and crisis-management skills for a large, diverse, news-attentive county.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"County Mayor","partisan":null,"pgr":"general","quantity":null,"referendum":null,"source":null,"title":"County Mayor"}