Candidate for
Board Member; Coastside County Water District; 4 Year Term

Jim Larimer grew up in the Midwest and attended Purdue University where he earned a BS, MS, & Ph.D. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan he joined the faculty at Temple University in Philadelphia and was a Department Chairman from 1979 to
1983. Prior to moving to California in 1986 to work at NASA's Ames Research Center, he was the Director of the Sensory Physiology Program at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC. Jim is a Senior Scientist and Research Engineer at NASA working in the field of electronic displays. He is known internationally within the display industry and academics for his work on image quality and signal processing. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded an Emmy for an algorithm developed under his leadership at NASA and the Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ.

Jim and his wife have lived on the coastside since 1987. They have two school age children. Jim has been active in school activities and served on the Site Council at Farallone View. Jim has no financial property interests in the community other than the Miramar residence that he owns with his wife. He is running for re-election to the CCWD Board because of his concerns about maintaining an adequate water system for fire protection and managing costs. In the last water board election Jim received the highest vote total.