CANDIDATE STATEMENT

By Susan Withrow

As an 18-year resident, wife, and mother of 14-year old twins, I care deeply about our city and protecting our superb quality of life as a family-oriented community.

The single largest threat we face is the County's proposed international airport at El

I will continue to apply my education in public administration and professional planning experience toward establishing long-term policies that strengthen our community and ensure a promising future for our children.

My accomplishments include:

• Improved traffic circulation with 98 interconnected and synchronized traffic signals

• Intersection improvements at Alicia/Jeronimo, Alicia/Muirlands, La Paz/Muirlands, and Oso/Marguerite in 1999

• Development of new parks and additional open space

• Construction of a state-of-the-art city library

• Deployment of additional police units resulting in lower crime rates

• Maintaining a healthy reserve account of $15,000,000 which is 50% of our operating budget with no new taxes

• Managing growth while establishing a strong commercial retail base creating annual revenues of over $2,000,000

We have a beautiful city and a bright future! Vote for Susan Withrow!