39. Make Yourself Available! w/ Jaevon Boxhill, Senior Budget Analyst

Born in Mandeville Jamaica March 1985. Moved to Bronx NY at the age of 6. Went to PS 103 elementary school on carpenter Ave in the Bronx. Moved to Mount Vernon, NY in the sixth grade. Went to Mount Vernon public schools for middle and High School. Went to Lehman College graduated cum laude with a degree in economics. Later attained a J.D from Albany Law School. After Law School started teaching criminal justice at Rockland BOCES. Took a civil service exam for senior accountant in the Mount Vernon Comptrollers office. Scored in the top 3 and instead of being offered the senior accounting job was appointed to the position of 1st Deputy Comptroller by the City Comptroller at the time, Maureen Walker. 1st Deputy Comptroller comes with a great deal of responsibility being 2nd in charge of the entire City’s finances. Worked in that capacity from 2014 to 2018. In 2018 the former Comptroller lost her elected seat to the current Comptroller Deborah Reynolds. In this change in administration, Reynolds let me go and brought in her own team. Started working as the fiscal analyst for the Westchester board of legislators. After two years working for the board of legislator I was offered a job as a senior budget analyst for Westchester county’s budget department this is the position I currently hold. Closing Word by Inky Johnson: “Control the Controllables”