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Betsy Crowder
15,164 votes
66.1%
- Occupation: Incumbent Director, Ward 6
- Retired Environmental Planner, City of Palo Alto
- San Mateo County Bikeways Advisory Committee, 8 years
- San Mateo County Trails Advisory Committee, 1987 to present
- Co-author, "Peninsula Trails" third edition, 1997
- Former Board member: Planning and Conservation League; Committee for Green Foothills; California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
- Former Board member, Bay Area Ridge Trail Council; member San Mateo County Ridge Trail Committee; member San Francisco Bay Trail
Priorities:
- I will continue supporting MROSD Mission and Basic Policy; preservation of land and its restoration to natural condition
- Public access to our lands must be within constraints of protection of natural resources
- I support creative means to finance new acquisitions, but believe fiscal restraint must control all our expenditures of public funds
John J. "Jack" Hickey
4,885 votes
21.3%
- Party: Libertarian
- Occupation: Sr. Research Scientist - retired
- Defender of private property rights-opposing eminent domain abuse
- Taxpayers advocate - successfully led 2 anti-tax campaigns this decade
- Advocate of revenue producing Golf Courses on "open space" land
- Inventor - 28 patents in electronics - lasers - fiber-optics
- Resident of what is now called "Emerald Hills" since 1965
- Four year Navy veteran(1953-1957)
Priorities:
- Removal of "Eminent Domain" powers from the District
- Restoration of the "Park District" name and function, which is what was voted on in 1976.
- Create a Master Plan which includes "revenue producing" open space land use.
Berry T. Stevens
2,819 votes
12.3%
- Occupation: Production Manager
- San Mateo County Trails Advisory Committee
Priorities:
- Equal access for all low impact rail users
- Expanded Volunteer Outreach
- More Educational Outreach
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