Jones was the director of Storefront Humber during the 1980s, providing home support services to elderly residents of Etobicoke and Mississauga.
[5] She sought election to the Etobicoke council again in 1988, arguing that the city should purchase waterfront properties for recreational use rather than sell them to developers.
[11] In October 1990, Jones endorsed a report from former Mayor of Toronto David Crombie which asserted that the Etobicoke council was placing the interests of developers ahead of the public.
[17] Jones quickly emerged as an opponent of Mel Lastman's style of government, arguing that the city's first budget had been created in secret.
[18] She supported the city's plans for redeveloping the motel strip area of Etobicoke in 1998, saying that environmental concerns had been taken into account and that property unit prices had been scaled back to reasonable levels.
[21] On December 14, 1999, Jones was appointed as a member of Toronto's newly created Food and Hunger Action Committee.
[23] Late in 2000, Jones opposed a plan (which was ultimately rejected) to ship Toronto's garbage to the Adams Mine in Kirkland Lake.
[27] She later criticized a municipal plan (later abandoned) to create an arm's-length board of private citizens to oversee Toronto's water system, arguing that this was simply a means of evading responsibility for necessary rate increases.
[29] Jones also expressed concern, late in the year, that the proposed arm's-length board would be the first step toward contracting out water services to private developers.
Jones worked in the volunteer sector after the election, and served on a committee organized by the Toronto Region Conservation Authority.