Re-Elect Larry Herman

By Larry A. Herman

I ask for your support and your vote to continue the work I have begun and I promise to remain your "VOICE OF REASON" on the La Palma City Council for the next 4 years.

I believe a Council Member should have integrity, be sincere and professional and address all city issues with impartiality and fairness; in the best interest of the City and YOU - its citizens.

PRIORITIES

Safety: With our excellent La Palma Police force we are one of the SAFEST CITIES in California and I want to keep it that way! I enthusiastically support Project Safe Streets and the new Police Interaction with Youth (P.I.Y.) program which brings educational police presence into our schools. To improve the safety of our school children, I approved of the City's funding of Crossing Guards at two of our local schools, Los Coyotes and Luther Elementary.

Street Maintenance: I believe we need more cost effective methods of street rehabilitation such as re-surfacing with Rubberized Asphalt Concrete (RAC). It's more environmentally friendly with a longer lasting and water-resistant surface.

City Finances: I am fiscally conservative and I believe in maintaining adequate reserves. Reserves must be kept for potential revenue shortfalls or natural disasters, as originally intended. We must operate within approved budgets, whether it is for the City's own operating budget or the Community Center construction project.

I alone voted NO when a major source of revenue, that for many years had been earmarked for RESERVES, was transferred to the GENERAL FUND. I also voted NO on excessive Management raises.

EXPERIENCE

- Experienced Council Member
- Mayor of La Palma - Two years
- Trustee, Orange County Vector Control District; Currently focusing on mosquitoes and West Nile virus
- Quality Control Laboratory Manager / Industrial Health and Safety - Retired, Monsanto Co.

BACKGROUND

My wife and I have been La Palma homeowners since 1974. Enhancing our community is important to us and we continue to volunteer for many local and national organizations.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER

La Palma:

- La Palma Meals on Wheels Program; Delivery of meals
- Neighborhood Watch; District Coordinator
- 1996 Americana Citizen of the Year Award in recognition for community service to La Palma

American Cancer Society (volunteer over 10 years):

- Road to Recovery; Driver to cancer patients
- Daffodil Days; NW Orange County Coordinator
- Relay for Life; Buena Park/La Palma support
- Legislative Ambassador; 2006 Representative from Congressional District 40 to "Celebration on the Hill," Washington D.C.
- 2004 - 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award - In the Fight Against Cancer