Candidate for
Council Member; City of Emeryville

It has been a privilege to serve you on the City Council. Together, we have worked over the years to transform old "industrial" Emeryville into a new thriving, livable Emeryville.

Working together, look what we have accomplished:

Created Jobs, Supported Homeowners and Small Businesses, and Balanced Our Budget

• Advanced redevelopment projects that resulted in over 10,000 new jobs
• Promoted a program to assist homeowners who were at risk of foreclosure
• Cultivated a strong, comprehensive tax base to fund vital City services and key development projects
• Fostered a collaborative and thriving business environment
• Promoted prudent fiscal policies to ensure the ongoing stability of our City government
  

• Enhanced police training and community involvement, and disaster preparedness and response
• Expanded paramedic training, service, and community outreach to seniors, students, and children
• Supported the City's CERT (Citizens Emergency Response Training) program
  

• Established the City School Committee, and worked with the community to improve the quality of education in Emeryville
• Founder and Emeritus Member of the Emery Education Foundation, which provides scholarships, and student and teacher assistance
• Worked with the School District to provide after-school care and expanded recreational activities
• Supported new classes for seniors at our Senior Center

• Oversaw the completion of 8 new parks, the Community Gardens, Peralta Art Garden, and 59th Street Garden, and the planting of hundreds of new trees
• Implemented the clean up of toxic "brownfield" sites (our project won the Global Environment Award)
• Worked with the City of Berkeley to extend the Greenway to the Berkeley/Emeryville border
• Completed Doyle Hollis Park
• Created a Public Trust to preserve our shoreline
• Re-built our Marina
• Established the Stop Waste, Multi-Family Green Building Guidelines for Emeryville

• Launched the Emery-Go-Round, which carries over 1 million riders for free per year and takes hundreds of cars off the streets, and established a Public Benefit Improvement District to cover its funding, which is paid for by commercial interests not residential taxpayers
• Added our new, local Amtrak station, the first new train station in California in 50 years, around which we will build more transit-oriented development
• Supported bicycle and pedestrian improvements to improve mobility
• Completed the crucial traffic calming project in the Triangle area
• Ensured Emeryville remained among the top three cities in Alameda County when it came to the quality of our roads