Candidate for
Council Member At Large; City of Oakland

Safety in Our Homes: Clinton's first priority is to ensure that Oakland's citizens are safe in their homes and businesses. He understands that it is necessary to increase the number of police officers in our city, and that Police alone are not the solution to our crime problem. Crime solutions must include security, prevention, suppression, alternatives to crime, and rehabilitation. Clinton will fight to explore best practice crime prevention methods, garner resources of the state and federal government, establish alternatives through jobs, education, and training and create substantive opportunities for those returning back into society.

Improve Neighborhood Retail and Resources: Clinton wants to ensure that every neighborhood has basic community services such as grocery stores, drug stores, and other retail businesses. Each neighborhood needs to feel like a community, with basic city services within each neighborhood to improve the quality of life for its citizens. Our parks must be maintained, our streets swept, and quality recreational facilities made available to our children. Clinton will work to rebuild our neighborhoods with more housing close to transit systems and major thoroughfares to restore the vibrancy of our neighborhoods that make Oakland such a unique place to live.

More Jobs and Economic Development: Clinton fully understands that Oakland needs more jobs in our city. Clinton will actively recruit job producing, smart growth businesses to Oakland. He understands that more jobs will benefit our neighbors, increase tax revenue, and provide basic services for all. He will work hard to rebuild Oakland's economic base throughout the city. He understands that greater economic development will stabilize neighborhoods, diversify housing, expand revenue base, and improve our quality of life.

Building a Foundation for Our Children: One of Clinton's highest priorities is rescuing our education system from its vicious downward cycle. He will fight to change state control of Oakland schools in order to restore the ability of parents, teachers, and students to have meaningful input on critical issues such as academic progress, school closure, and curriculum.

As a leader in the Oakland Chamber of Commerce and the Northern California Stanford Black Alumni Association, Clinton wants to build partnerships between the state and the business and philanthropic communities to help fund secondary education.

Democrat Clinton Killian credits his mother for his work ethic and deep respect for the power of education. For years she worked 96 hours each week in three jobs to provide her children a good home and a great education. That's one of the reasons why it is so important for Clinton Killian to make sure that all of our children have access to excellent schools.

Building Affordable Housing for Our Families: As a member and former Chair of the Oakland Planning Commission, Clinton has fought to make housing affordable for first-time homebuyers and to attract new residents from all over the Bay Area who cannot afford a home in other cities. Clinton will work to modify state law to encourage infill housing development close to existing transit systems, and direct new housing efforts to urban areas.

Democrat Clinton Killian has a vision for Oakland, with lower crime, better neighborhood retail services, good jobs, and great schools. That's why Clinton Killian is about change for a better Oakland.