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"I believe in leading by listening. Community organizing is about spending time with people, understanding their concerns, and helping build solutions based on what you hear.

"Everything I’m running on comes directly from conversations with residents. My campaign priorities reflect what people have consistently raised with me. During the Measure G campaign for a new library, I personally spoke with more than 1,000 Truckee voters. Those conversations weren’t just about the library, they were about what people want to see in our town.

“We cannot build community in darkness and silence,” said Toups. He recounted that during the week, an anonymous person had torn down the rainbow flags that showed the way to one of the events—which has happened before, when Truckee first put up their pride banners.

So, Toups connected Pride to the trumpets of the passage. “Let Pride be a call to bring our camps together… let it remind us to be heard and seen.” He called for all communities to unite and support one another.

“My goal as chair is, however it gets decided, I want the public and applicant to understand why it was decided that way,” said Truckee Planning Commission Chair Jason Toups. “That’s really important to me. Land use planning and approvals can be a very confusing process … Even if people disagree with the findings we make, I want them to understand why we made them. I see us spending time in the hearing to really explicate for the community what the standards are, what applies here, and why they apply.”