Candidate for
Council Member; Town of Atherton

Atherton Council Experience

• Appointed to council 2005 and elected in 2006, serving 5 years as councilmember. Served as Mayor and Vice Mayor

  - Served on following Council committees: Audit, Finance, General Plan, Rail, Town Center Task Force, Transportation

  - Town representative on County, Regional and State organizations: Airport Roundtable; City/County Association of Governments (Board, Legislative and Employee Compensation committees, League of California Cities + voting representative and League's Policy Committee on Employee Compensation; Peninsula Cities Consortium board; High Speed Rail Policy Working Group; Safe Routes to School ad hoc committee; Menlo Fire Protection District liaison.

• Resident member and first chairman of Atherton's Audit committee
• Resident member of Atherton Rail committee
• Citizens `Yes on S&T' Parcel Tax committee
• President of Atherton Civic Interest League
• Community Volunteer + tree plantings, Holbrook Palmer Park Easter Egg hunts, town BBQ's.
• Selby Education Foundation board of directors

• Hewlett Packard Company + 1961-1984 Division General management Corporate Controller Company Representative on local and national committees for corporate finance
• Other Business Experience Chief Financial Officer + Triad Systems Management Consultant + medium and small companies Private Investor/Board member several Silicon Valley companies Community Bank Director

• BS, University of California at Davis
• MBA, Leland Stanford University School of Business

• Captain U.S. Army Reserves (retired)

• Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce member
• Redwood City/San Mateo County Chamber of Commerce member
• CERT trained and certified

Atherton resident for 19 years; lived on the Peninsula over 50 years; wife, Shirley Carlson, and blended family of seven children and three grandchildren.