Candidates
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Francis W. "Frank" Parnell
22668 votes
19.16%
- Occupation: Incumbent
- Physician
Priorities:
- Maintain stable leadership and management
- Diversity in faculty, students, and funding alternatives
- Academic facilities development at IVC campus
Phyllis L. Metcalfe
22173 votes
18.75%
- Occupation: Incumbent/Political Consultant
- California Community Colleges Public Relations Commission
- University of Northern California - Board Member
- Golden Gate Theological Seminary - Community Advisory Board
- Marin Education Corps - Founding Member
- American Red Cross - Board Member, Marin Chapter
- SF Mayor's Committee for Refugee Targeted Education & Job Training Assistance
Priorities:
- Providing high quality instruction, programs & services in a cost-effective manner.
- Ensuring financial stability by generating income from additional sources to bolster state allotments.
- Serving community interests by strengthening ties and building partnerships with local residents, businesses, schools & other public entities.
Larry McFadden
20461 votes
17.30%
- Occupation: Incumbent
- President, Fairfax Lumber & Hardware
Priorities:
- Fiscal accountability and stabilize budget process
- Upgrade of facilities, equipment, grounds and, development funds
- Restoration of IVC as a fully functioning campus
Eva Long
19201 votes
16.23%
- Occupation: Educator/Professor/Administrator
- Education: Ph.D., The Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, M.A. Stanford University, M.A. San Francisco State University, B.A. San Francisco State Univ
- Partial list of Civic & Community Activities: Marin County Private Industry Council, Ross Valley Sanitary Board, Buck Center Community Advisory Comm
- 36 years of distinguished Public Service as District Superintendent, Administrator, Teacher, K-12,FacultyPostSecondary Educ.,Higher Education faculty
- Senior Executive for Education Partners, San Francisco. External Evaluator for lowest performing schools in California
- Native Californian, Family in Marin County for over 30 year. Dr. Long resident for almost 20 years in Greenbrae, Marin County
Priorities:
- College of Marin is faced with serious financial problems reflected by its deficit budgets and inability to maintain adequate reserves
- College of Marin is also faced with severe decline of student enrollment affecting budget income which does not offset the budget expenditures.
- Need for new innovative Board leadership. Must move forward with a sense of urgency and adopt a fiscally responsible plan while maintaining programs
Vivien Bronshvag
14923 votes
12.62%
- Occupation: Educator
- I have 25 years of community service in education in Marin from teaching to fundraising to policymaking.
- In addition to my experience on the Assembly Standing Committee on Education, I have served as a Bar Examiner with the State Bar of Ca.
- I am a founding member of the Kentfield Schools Foundation and the Marin Alliance for Public Schools, non-profit, innovative, resourceful boards.
- My experience includes middle and high school teaching and accreditation and fiscal oversight responsibilities.
- The Marin County Office of Education awarded my efforts on behalf of the Kentfield School District with their Golden Bell Award.
Priorities:
- Maintain and promote quality education on both campuses.
- Maintain fiscal stability using available resources judiciously and innovatively.
- Increase student enrollment by developing curriculum in partnership with the county's economic goals.
Otis Bruce
13723 votes
11.60%
- Occupation: Deputy District Attorney, Marin County
- A.S. Degree-Merritt College, Oakland; B.S. Degree-San Jose State University; Juris Doctorate-New College of California School of Law
- Novato Resident; V.P. Quail Hollow HOA (Past President); Recipient, Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award for Youth Leadership;
- Board Director (Youth Services) Terra Linda Rotary; Director-American Red Cross, Marin Bay Area Chapter; Member-Concerned Parents of Novato;
- Member-Hamilton Air Force Base Advisory Commission (HAAC); Past Brd. Member North Bay Children's Center; Advisor-Marin Interfaith Youth Teen Center;
- Graduate-San Rafael Chamber of Commerce Leadership Institute; Past Executive Brd. Member-MAPE/SEIU Local 949;
- Founding Director-Friends of Margarita Johnson Senior Center, Marin City;
Priorities:
- Ensure the community's voice is reflected in the college's future decision for long term stability; Keep Indian Valley Campus as an "Academic Jewel"
- Increase outreach to every Marin County high school, businesses, civic organizations, city/county employess to insure increased enrollment
- Insure fiscal accountability at every level by increasing enrollment and minimizing costs; Improve classes and programs to attract more students
Pete Romanowsky
4860 votes
4.11%
- Occupation: Minister/Marine Tradesman
- 1969 recruited and trained in-house by the General Baptist Church of America Central California Association (licensed/interned).
- 1971 recruited and trained by the New Covenant Evangelistic Association headquartered in Richmond and appointed Vice President of Ministerial Assoc.
- Orginized and pastored Agape' Christian Church in the early seventies, and met in the Woodacre Improvement Club for services.
- Moved services to Stewart Chapel on the grounds of the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, in the mid-seventies.
- Travelled extensively as an Internationl Missionary Evangelist in the Middle East and Europe ,during that decade especially.
- Eighties,cloistered myself in mini-estate home(owned by in-laws Ernest & Polly Kettenhofen) for 3 years, before becoming missionary to Sausalito.
Priorities:
- Increase full time student attendance by providing on campus low income housing on the IVC campus, with shuttle to COM, Work with city of Novoto, etc.
- Recruit all ages and backgrounds for enrollment and seek funds from the Marin Community Foundation for scholorships, we are an ageing adult community.
- Make IVC more attractive with sports programs and centralized dinning area for community atmosphere. Link up with high tech firms for IVC and media.
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