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Bob Franklin
44,262 votes
38.1%
43,444 votes
(38.2%) in Alameda County
818 votes
(33.9%) in Contra Costa County
- Occupation: Transportation Financial Specialist
- 7-year BART Financial Specialist
- Stanford University Graduate
- Fire Fighter, US Forest Service
- Volunteer, numerous Public Transportation Groups
- 14 years working at Berkeley Farmers Market on Saturdays
Priorities:
- Have BART and AC Transit cooperate with each other, not compete!!!
- Seismic retrofitting of BART - make the system safe, before we consider expansions.
- Improve access to BART through Shuttles - Getting to BART is the main problem, as parking lots are full.
Roy Nakadegawa
41,936 votes
36.1%
40,899 votes
(35.9%) in Alameda County
1,037 votes
(42.9%) in Contra Costa County
- Occupation: Incumbent, Professional Transportation Engineer
- Registered Engineer, CE #11,630; 1958
- Former elected Director of AC Transit for 20 years
- Former Member of State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers
- Former National President of Institute for Transportation of Amer. Public Works Assoc.
- Awarded Life Membership to Amer. Public Works Assoc. and Institute of Transportation Engineers
- Recieved a Commendation from MTC for work on Senior and Disabled Paratransit Service
Priorities:
- Provide a cost-effective, socially equitable, safe, clean, accessible, reliable, and customer friendly system.
- Promote environmentally sound transit orientated developments that are readily accessible and non polluting that will add to the quality of life
- Improve BART using developed technologies, assess its use using quantifiable performance measures to determine its effectiveness
Kathy Neal
29,804 votes
25.6%
29,243 votes
(25.7%) in Alameda County
561 votes
(23.2%) in Contra Costa County
- Occupation: Management-Planning Consultant
- Independent Business Owner for over 20 years
- Former Port Commissioner directing $1.5 billion budget
- Former Director on 3 distinct statewide public policy and regulatory boards
- Non-profit activist - Created Oakland Nonprofit Resource Center
- BA-Political Science; MPA - USF; Dartmouth College-certificates in Business
- US Environmental Protection Agency and NASA trained
Priorities:
- BART System Safety and Security
- Accountable Management with Sound Fiscal Operations
- Increased Attention and Action benefiting Riders, Constituents and Stakeholders
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Events
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- Saturday, October 30, 2004
Robroadcast of Oct. 7 Forum
On KTOP, Channel 10
11:00 - 11:30 AM (approx. time)
- Sunday, October 24, 2004
Rebroadcast of Oct 7 Forum
On KTOP Channel 10
3:00 - 3:30 PM (approx. time)
- Thursday, October 7, 2004 7 - 7:30 PM
Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1
1 City Hall Plaza, Oakland (14th & Broadway)
The forum will be broadcast on KTOP, Cable Channel 10
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