Week 2: Building momentum for a successful Transition

We hope you’re enjoying the busy holiday season with family, friends, and community. Thank you for the time and energy so many of you continue to give to this transition, your input is shaping the work in real time.

Right before Thanksgiving, we held Steering Committee Meeting #2 and advanced four priorities: tightening the transition timeline, finalizing the structure for policy committees, coordinating department head briefings, and moving recruitment for key roles. Our goal remains the same: ensure a smooth handoff on day one and set clear, achievable focuses for the first 100 days.

Policy committees are underway. We convened the first Policy Committee kick-off meeting. We have over 140 people confirmed as Committee members, and new people are stepping up every day to lend their expertise and lived experience. These committees will frame near-term priorities and surface practical recommendations. We’ll pair this work with a critical public-engagement, a simple online input form where residents can react to early ideas and share their own at wilsontransition.org.

Jake opened the first meeting with a warm welcome to committee members and his vision for the transition.

“I’m just constantly blown away by the sheer amount of expertise in our community,”  Jake told attendees of the policy committee kick-off meeting. “It’s just such an amazing resource, and that’s why our transition team was so eager to tap into that as we go about setting up our administration.”

On operations, we are scheduling meetings with all department heads, to align active projects and deadlines, identify staffing or resource needs, and flag bottlenecks where the Mayor’s Office can help. The aim is straightforward: keep core services steady throughout the handoff.

We also aligned on deliverables: a concise executive summary for Inauguration Day, followed by a fuller transition report during the first 100 days that reflects department briefings, committee recommendations, and public input. In parallel, recruitment has started for several key roles in city operations leadership and the Mayor’s Office. Job postings will roll out and be linked at  https://www.wilsontransition.org/hiring.

As always, you can share priorities and sign up for updates anytime at wilsontransition.org. We’ll post committee schedules, briefing progress, and draft materials there. Thank you again for your partnership during a very full season, we appreciate you.