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Sacramento County, CA November 6, 2007 Election
Smart Voter Full Biography for Paul R. Green, Jr.

Candidate for
Trustee; Proposed Reorganized Grant Joint Union High School District; Trustee Area 3

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Paul R. Green Jr.

Paul Green brings real world leadership experience to the Area 3 campaign for school board.

MILITARY: He is a decorated military veteran whose 24-year United States Air Force career resulted in his receiving a Top Secret security clearance and his being promoted to the grade of Senior Master Sergeant -- a position that placed him in the top two percent of all enlisted members in the Air Force.

His military background included 16 years of leadership and management experience as a Communications and Computer Systems Plans and Programs manager with duties that required him to (1) assist the end user define the need, (2) prepare and process the appropriate requests for submission to the proper approval level, (3) brief various levels of leadership to effect that approval, (4) coordinate with all relevant engineering, budget and installation teams and other agencies to ensure proper scheduling, (5) coordinate laterally regarding preparation and installation and (6) ensure proper funding for both equipment and manpower. Additionally he (7) computed the need for and requested needed manpower and (8) oversaw scheduled training for any ancillary computer assets (including software).

Atop those duties, he (9) managed war and other type plans for the organization and (10) was the organizational resource officer (prepared and managed equipment and personnel budgets).

Paul was recognized more than once as Airman of the Month and as Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) of the Month or Year. He was the Air Force Communications Command NCO Academy Honor Graduate and was the Air Force Logistics Command (included McClellan AFB) Program Manager of the Year. While stationed in San Antonio, Texas, he was designated Honorary Mayor of the original San Antonio by the City Council as a result of his being singularly responsible for staffing, presenting and gaining approval for a proposal to hold a three-day, 500 bed Air Force Sergeants Association convention at the Hilton and other spillover hotels respectively on and in the area of the San Antonio River Walk.

While on active duty, Paul also earned his Associate in Applied Science degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Community College of the Air Force plus his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Maryland and also completed 28 or 32 hours toward a Master of Science degree in Management from LaVerne University (outside Los Angeles).

Additionally, he served for one year as interim pastor of First Filipino Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA, following the leaving of one pastor and the arrival of the called replacement from the Philippines.

For 16 years after retiring from the USAF, Paul worked as an independent contractor Regional Vice President with what then was known as Primerica Financial Services, a subsidiary of Citigroup. He held insurance, investment and real estate licenses plus additional certifications such as Consumer Finance Lender license and variable contracts certification. Today he is a 14-year licensed Notary Public with the current addendum designation of Certified Notary Signing Agent.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Paul's community involvement has been long and distinguished.

EDUCATION RELATED

  • Team leader, California Department of Education (CDE) Legal Compliance Review Committee (textbook review) + 7 years
  • Member, CDE Legal Compliance Appeals Committee + 4 years
  • Member, CDE 1999 Content Review Panel (one of only two non-educators appointed statewide out of 300 appointees to evaluate textbook content for accuracy and ease of use as a teaching tool).
  • Elected to the Grant Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees as part of the Education First team that was drafted by the community leadership in 1998 (President, 1999).
  • Member, Rio Linda Union School District (RLUSD) (Houghton Mifflin) Language Arts Textbook Adoption Committee (one of only two non-educators selected) + six months of weekly meetings culminating in his being a presenter on the briefing team that reported out the committee's findings out to both the school board and then to teachers at multiple school sites.
  • Former member, RLUSD Advisory Council (DAC)
  • Member, RLUSD Bond Citizen's Oversight Committee (2003 + 2007)
  • Former president, Holmes Elementary School Site Council, Rio Linda Union School District
  • California School Boards Association Delegate Assembly + Elected February, 2000 till 2002 o Awarded the school board member/superintendent Masters in Governance Certification in 2001 following completion of six courses relative to school board leadership and management oversight: (1) Foundations of Effective Governance, (2) Human Resources, (3) Community Relations and Advocacy, (4) Setting Direction, (5) School Finance and (6) Governance Integration o Committee Appointments (one year duration): Urban School Districts Council; Children's Health Task Force and Golden Bell Evaluator
  • Education community representative and community Co-chair of the McClellan Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) since 2001. Along with other RAB members, responsible to: (1) monitor and advise on toxic cleanup policies, procedures and actions taken to ensure public safety and security; (2) to encourage certain actions be taken that speed "base" reuse which, when achieved, increases tax revenues both directly by assessment and indirectly by additional spending in the North Highlands and surrounding communities; and (3) to periodically update the local school boards and superintendents of the status of cleanup efforts.
  • Chairman, Education Committee, George S. "Spanky" Roberts Chapter, Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., since 2005. Responsible to oversee both (1) the chapter's tuition assistance program locally that currently is open to graduating seniors from accredited public or private high schools in Sacramento County that are seeking financial help to attend either an accredited four-year college or university or one of the four Los Rios Community College District two-year colleges (American River, Cosumnes, Folsom Lake and Sacramento City) consistent with chapter guidelines; and (2) the review of and processing for submission applications to the TAI, Inc., national organization to be considered for the $20,000 scholarship award.
  • Docent, Sacramento Discovery Museum (History) - April, 2003 - March 2007

  • Member, North Highlands Children's Coalition + 4 years

GENERAL

Paul previously served as a member of the Air Force Sergeants Association (AFSA) International Executive Council as the elected president of Division 14 that encompassed the states of Alaska, Oregon and Washington. More recently he served as president of AFSA's then 1300 member and Auxiliary local Camellia Chapter.

He also served on the North Highlands Recreation and Park Board and was appointed to the Contractor State License Board by Governor Schwarzenegger specifically to represent senior citizens and generally to protect all consumers by determining and overseeing licensing, training, testing and enforcement of the 300,000 California licensed contractors while, at the same time, being mindful that all actions needed to be legal, moral and ethical so that the Board, through its regulations and policies, respectively did not place onerous requirements on the industry under regulation or on the staff the Board oversaw through the CSLB Registrar. His appointment to the CSLB later was confirmed by the State Senate without dissent.

His other volunteer efforts (in addition to those identified above) include:

  • Captain, local Public Broadcasting Station, KVIE, On-air Fundraising Committee + October, 1994 + June, 2007
  • Chairman, North Highlands Visions Task Force (County Supervisors' leadership group) + three years + two as chairman. Major accomplishments during his term as president included (1) Approval for the Town Center at Watt Avenue and the former "E" Street (now Freedom Park Drive); (2) Approval to replace the 4,000 sq. ft. library at Watt Avenue and Plymouth Drive with the current 12,000 sq. ft. library located at Antelope and Walerga roads, (3) Extended review authority over $300,000 of façade upgrade requests for businesses along Central Watt Avenue by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors.
  • First president, Sacramento County Sheriff District 1 Neighborhood Accountability Board + 2 years
  • Member, Save Gibson Ranch Committee
  • Member, California Contaminated Vapor Treatment Technology Workgroup + Apr+Dec, 2001
  • Member, California Department of Human Services Nutrition Planning Grant Proposal Review Panel + February, 2002

Most recently, other McClellan Restoration Advisory Board (toxic cleanup) community members elected Paul to serve as RAB Co-chair with responsibility to serve cooperatively alongside the Air Force Co-chair appointee while, at the same time, representing the community's interests as expressed through coordination with them relative to neighborhoods or their diverse representations such as religious, business, or environmental, for example.

On this Board, Paul represents the education community. He has served in this capacity since 2001, and continues to regularly provide cleanup status updates to (to include problems and successes) both written and verbally at school board meetings or via E-mail to Board members and District superintendents.

MEMBERSHIPS (in addition to those identified above) include:

  • Faith Baptist Tabernacle, North Highlands, California (Former adult Sunday school teacher + five years)
  • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. + Zeta Beta Lambda Chapter
  • Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. - George S. "Spanky" Roberts Chapter (Chairman, Education Committee with responsibility to oversee both (1) the chapter's tuition assistance programs locally that currently are open to graduating seniors from an accredited public or private high school in Sacramento County who are seeking financial help to attend either an accredited four-year college or university or one of the four Los Rios Community College District two-year colleges (American River, Cosumnes, Folsom Lake and Sacramento City) consistent with chapter guidelines, and (2) the review and processing for submission of applications to the TAI, Inc., national organization to be considered for the national $20,000 scholarship award).
  • Vice President, Sacramento Institute of Public Policy (Political Ethics "think tank")
  • Sacramento County Taxpayers League
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars (Life Member) -- North Highlands Post 4647
  • Non Commissioned Officers Association (North Highlands Chapter)
  • Air Force Association (Life Member)
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - (Sacramento Chapter)
  • Chambers of Commerce: (1) Antelope-Highlands and (2) North Sacramento

RECENT RECOGNITION: Paul was recognized by local Public Broadcasting Station, KVIE, as Volunteer of the Year for 2001 during which time he regularly continued to oversee phone banks and to coordinate all other on-site volunteers as on-air studio captain, and as the Antelope-Highlands Chamber of Commerce 1999 Businessman of the Year.

PERSONAL: He is married to the former Vivian M. Johnson of Manila Philippines. They have five children, Paul III, who is a graduate of Center High School, Antelope, CA, and Hector, Jeremy, Jubilee and Jennifer-Ruth, each a graduate of Holmes Elementary School in the Rio Linda Union School District and a Grant Joint Union High School District high school. Three of the five children went on to attend college and received degrees.

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