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Help for a Texas local decision

Build support before a decision becomes contentious, respond to local opposition, or coordinate the work across several jurisdictions.

The main offering

Hire JD Key when a company faces a city, county, or district decision and needs another credible voice beside its own team.

  1. Local government and public affairs

    The main engagement when a company needs a fair hearing in a Texas city, county, or district. State and federal work can be added on an agreed scope.

Three situations

Most calls fit one of these. Tell us where the decision stands.

  1. Before a local decision

    Listen first, map support and objections, and help willing residents contact their own officials before the hearing.

  2. When a proposal meets opposition

    Read the reasons for a rejection or delay, then help build a public case residents can check.

  3. Across cities and counties

    Keep the company facts consistent while each city, county, or district hears its own concerns.

Comparisons: why companies need local public affairs, government affairs and lobbying, and local public affairs and public relations.

What James and Blake do

James Dickey leads strategy. Blake Sbrocco is Vice President and takes part in the work. We work beside your team, your counsel, your technical specialists, and the lobbyists and public relations people you already use.

We listen. We map who supports the project and who objects. We help willing residents contact their own officials, and we track that outreach. James and Blake also speak in interviews, op-eds, and testimony.

We bring independent judgment and another credible public voice. Your specialists handle their disciplines, and we keep the public case aligned with the facts.

Industry experience

Complex industries raise different local questions. We connect the business and technology to the concerns officials and residents need answered.

  1. Data Centers

    Local hearings where power, water, and tax questions meet a data center project.

  2. Energy, Oil & Gas, and Nuclear

    Energy questions that show up in a local decision, including the Electric Reliability Council of Texas and the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

  3. Water & Infrastructure

    Water, districts, and infrastructure questions in the community where the project would operate.

  4. AI & Emerging Technology

    Help cities and counties understand AI, SaaS, software platforms, and public safety, emergency management, first responders, and communications technology.

  5. Banking & Finance

    Banking and finance questions when a local or state decision affects the company.

  6. Manufacturing

    Plant, workforce, and permitting questions in the city or county that will host the operation.

  7. Emerging Energy & Carbon

    Hydrogen, carbon capture, and related projects when a local board is the first decision.

When the local decision also reaches an agency

State and federal assistance can be included when the issue calls for it.

  1. Regulatory strategy

    Coordinate the public case with counsel and specialists when regulatory decisions affect your business.

  2. Texas Sunset reviews

    Explain business and community impacts through an agreed state-level public affairs assignment.

Tell us where the decision stands

Which city or county is involved, what you need, and what you have already heard.