Candidate for
Council Member; City of Calimesa

My name is John (Jack) Kramer. I live in Sharondale, in Calimesa, where I serve on the Board of Directors of the Homeowners Association. I also served on the Board of Directors of Whispering Pines in Big Bear City, representing the 250 homeowners. Calimesa is a great little city and my wife and I have fallen in love with its charm. It has the feel of a rural area, and yet it has a vibrancy of exciting new growth. Growth means we need entrepreneurs and new businesses to maintain a local tax base. We need a strong tax base to maintain our level of police and fire services. Planned growth will maintain the beauty of our town while having the proper infrastructure to accommodate the city we are becoming. I do not want to see Calimesa become a hodge-podge of buildings without the proper infrastructure and planning, we deserve better than that. Focus groups made up of community leaders and residents of the community should be working together. By working together, with all segments of the community represented, we can become a model town. A closeknit community is a strong community.