Two first-time candidates are seeking the Fort Worth City Council seat of Alan Blaylock, who is departing to run for the Texas House.
Entrepreneur Chris Jamieson and Alicia Ortiz, a former seven-year district director for then-council member Cary Moon, filed for a place on the ballot on Monday, the first day to do so for the special election.
Voters will decide on May 2 who fills the remaining year of Blaylock’s two-year term, which expires in May 2027. Filing ends March 2 with early voting April 20-28.
Jamieson, 47, and Ortiz, 50, each announced weeks ago that they planned to run for District 10, which comprises much of the Alliance corridor. Jamieson lives in Willow Ridge Estates off U.S. 287, and Ortiz lives in Heritage.
The candidates are campaigning on bread-and-butter issues, such as well-planned and managed growth, public safety and fiscal accountability.
Jamieson says his background as an entrepreneur will help at City Hall.
“One of the biggest challenges this area has is that there was not a whole lot of planning for roads,” Jamieson said. “It’s been kind of after the fact that they put this plan together. One of (our) biggest focuses is making sure that people can get where they need to get.”
From 2015 to 2022, Ortiz was director in City Council District 4 — which included a swath of east Fort Worth up into the Alliance corridor before redistricting in 2022. She said that experience gives her a substantial edge in understanding the corridor’s needs.
Ortiz pointed out that District 10’s growth has brought the need for housing, and she wants to help ensure the right mix of development comes in.
“We’re being saturated with multifamily,” she said. “We also need good mixed-use. With that comes the issue we’re having with road infrastructure.”
Far north Fort Worth’s infrastructure shortfalls have been exacerbated by the need to sync the plans of multiple cities — and that of unincorporated Tarrant County — whose roads converge.
It has not been unusual for Fort Worth’s multilane roads, for example, to turn into the two-lane roads of another city.
Such issues also create problems for public safety in north Fort Worth, the candidates said.
“That’s an issue for our constituents, for our police officers, our firefighters,” Ortiz said, adding major growth will continue for years, and roads are always needed.
“The city’s done a good job of making sure we have a good police presence here,” Jamieson said. “As we continue to move north, we need to make sure they’re here.”
In a December campaign filing, Jamieson named Travis Clegg, a business development and program manager for a Fort Worth design and consulting firm, as his campaign treasurer. In a January campaign finance filing, Jamieson reported he loaned $25,000 to his campaign and received a $2,000 campaign contribution from Steve Greig, a Fort Worth finance company entrepreneur.
Jamieson also reported spending $5,000 to hire Catalyst Advisors Group of Austin to consult and manage his campaign. He has $22,000 in cash on hand.
Jamieson said he was prepared to invest more personal funds in his campaign but declined to say how much he thought it would cost to run a contested race in the district.
Ortiz estimated it might cost $50,000-$75,000 to run her campaign. In a December filing, she named Moon as her campaign treasurer.
In January, she reported one $250 campaign contribution and $250 in cash on hand. Ortiz said fundraising is going well heading into her official campaign kickoff Monday night.
Ortiz said she hired Neel & Partners to consult her campaign.
Jamieson said he’s formed, developed and sold multiple businesses over his career. He is CEO of Freedom Hitch, a company that makes hitches for fifth wheels and gooseneck trailers.
He and wife Amber have a 13-year-old daughter. Jamieson is president of the Willow Ridge Estates HOA and a former EO Fort Worth board member.
Ortiz has served as chair of the Heritage Land Use Committee, Heritage crime watch captain, Texas Health community advisory board member, and a Keller ISD ambassador and campus educational improvement committee member.
Ortiz and husband Neftali have four children.
Scott Nishimura is senior editor for local government accountability at the Fort Worth Report. Reach him at scott.nishimura@fortworthreport.org
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