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"GOALS AND CONCERNS"
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One of the goals of any city council should be to provide, as much as is possible at a local governmental level, the support and appropriate incentives for economic growth within the community. In San Carlos, we have been generally successful in obtaining and keeping businesses that provide jobs for our residents and an economic bases from which other businesses can synergize, as well as provide the tax base to help support the amenities that San Carlos is increasingly able to provide its residents and merchants.
In the past several years that I have been on the city council we have aggressively pursued getting our infrastructure improvements in place. Those items include flood control, sewers being rebuilt that hadn't been tourched for 40 years, and traffic remediation through railroad grade separations, the Brittan/Highway 101 on/off ramps and new, sophisticated signalization. With those essential projects either completed or well on their way, it is time to concentrate more on "Quality of Life" issues that can be more visible to the residents and add a distance measure of sucess and pleasure for our residents. Specifically, those projects include a new library, a new youth center, the revitalization of our heavily used parks, and the continued upgrading of our downtown retail core, as well as additional concentration on the mid and south parts of Laurel Street. Additional challenges will appear for the lands currently occupied by the railroad's temporary tracks, as well as recruiting appropriate businesses to populate our existing industrial area and newly aquired 163 acrea portion of the Harbor Industrial Area ( once the upgrading of that area's infrastrucure has been completed).
As a city council, we all have very conscientiously pushed for changes that will, for many years, have an impact on this town and its residents. It is because of the lasting impression of the changes made (and to be made) to the community that we have all taken such great care to insure that the changes are "right for San Carlos". Not only do we want to keep up our track record of fiscal conservatism (10 balanced budgets in a row and a AA bond rating (unheard of for a city our size), but we also want to maximize our ability to create other successes that cannot necessarily be measured in square feet or dollars and cents alone.
San Carlos uniqueness is a positive result of many dedicated volunteers and City staff, who selflesssly work together to create a true "spirit of community", allowing common sense decisions for the common good to prevail in an atmosphere of cooperation. My 18+ years of public service have allowed me the privilege of demonstrating high levels of leadership, integrity, dedication, creativeity, flexibility and hard work. I have a track record of sound decisions on such topics as balanced budget, land use, traffic, park renovation and economic vitality for all San Carlans.
