Councilmember Jeff Preptit
Most first-termers learn quickly that a district councilmember’s job mostly happens outside the blinding glamour of Tuesday night meetings broadcast on YouTube. More specifically, it happens in buried inboxes, at community meetings and on phone calls, where members problem-solve everything from trash pickup to rezoning. It’s a testament to Green Hills’ Jeff Preptit that, among a remarkably earnest and hardworking rookie class, he stands out for both a sharp command of the chamber’s complicated operating process and boundless energy to crystallize the stakes of each week’s hot-button issue. The District 25 rep’s willingness to get behind much-needed zoning reform, while claiming some of its most vocal opponents as constituents, and his legal-minded intervention to prevent police officers’ associations with hate groups, signal a rising star on the city’s bench of legislators.
