- Dedicated to transparency
- Invested in our future; experienced professional
- Driven to solve our infrastructure issues with a firm vision
- A proven inspirational leader
- Experienced and trusted in dealing with large contracts and government funding
Fellow Natchitoches Parish residents, I’m Scott Stetson, and I want to work for you. I am a 23-year Army veteran with 9 combat deployments serving in the 75th Ranger Regiment under the Joint Special Operations Command. My family and I moved here in July of 2013. I taught Senior ROTC at Northwestern State University prior to my retirement in 2015 and have since been working project and program management for Raytheon and Valiant Integrated Services on Department of Defense contracts.
I am service oriented and seek to continue serving our community through running for this seat. I bring a unique mix of skills and leadership experiences to the table which I believe will be an asset to turning things in the direction we need to address the infrastructure issues we face. Amongst those who know me, I am a solution-driven leader who delivers results. I seek to build teams and find solutions for our parish moving forward. I will implement a maintenance plan for our road system, so we do not have parish assets sitting idle while we have the opportunity to get work accomplished. I want to inject a level of transparency in our operations to ensure our work is measured and as a means to hold myself and the council accountable to you.
I know how the federal government needs information presented to receive an award of a contract and have successfully worked on large scale proposals worth $60 million. I also know contracts and how to implement the right type of contract to ensure we get what we need for our parish. I intend on ensuring contracts are written with clear performance measures, so we are no longer having work that is substandard for our parish. My vision is to build in option years for maintenance on the roads once the performance measures for building one has been met. These will be Time and Material based meaning when work isn’t being done, we are not paying for idle hands. We’ve written enough blank checks for substandard work in this parish. It’s time to move forward with a firm vision that captures the immediate issues at hand, potential economic opportunities in the short-term, and long-term planning for the future of our parish.
I’ve watched our community rely on state law to protect us from fallout of indecisiveness and improper planning. We are too dependent on emergency bailouts from the state and federal governments. We have towns which have lost significant funding for their water system, effecting over 800 people. This has the potential to be catastrophic yet it has not been a topic of discussion from the leadership until I brought it to the table. Sitting on our heels and doing things the way we’ve always done it will only continue to yield the same results we have now. Let’s lean forward and get to work!
Natchitoches, I am asking you for your support for #55 on the ballot, Scott Stetson.
Paid for by Scott Stetson
