Platform

Job Creation:

One of the most important duties of our local government is to retain the existing businesses and jobs in Carlsbad and to attract well-paying jobs to our city so our residents can indeed live, work and play in Carlsbad without spending hours on the freeways to get to work in other cities. I pledge to you to focus on the following:

1. Working with Carlsbad’s existing small, medium and large businesses to help them remain in business and retain their employees.

2. Creating well-paying pollution-free jobs right here in Carlsbad for our Carlsbad residents.

3. Attracting reputable clean technologies and companies to relocate in Carlsbad to diversify and secure Carlsbad’s economic future and jobs availability.

4. Balancing the community’s desire to preserve the quaint quality of Carlsbad with the need of our citizens to have jobs close to their homes.

Carlsbad’s Quality of Life:

We all love Carlsbad and enjoy its lagoons, beaches and open space lands, which have much to do with Carlsbad’s quality of life. We must protect and preserve them. My commitments to you are:

1. With the passage of Proposition C in 2002, our resident approved the usages of Prop C’s funds to purchase parcels of land to be preserved as permanent open space. After eight years Prop C’s funds have remained unused. Purchasing the open space properties identified by the Citizens’ Committee is one of my priorities.

2. Construction of Alga Norte Swim Complex is still uncertain. Originally the city had promised this complex would be open for business in 2010. I will work with you and within the city’s budget and the reality of today’s economy to make this dream a reality.

3. With the help of our citizen volunteers I will work to create a reserve fund and an umbrella organization to protect our three lagoons and beaches. The City should partner with the Lagoon Foundations to preserve our delicate ecosystem and provide more public facilities along our beach fronts.

Fiscal Responsibility:

The future of our city is bright. We will work together as a unified citizenry to ensure this future remains safe and guaranteed. Some of our currently dormant sources of funds must be revitalized to generate more income for the city’s services and future plans, sources such as the quaint Carlsbad Village, the historical Barrio, Car Country, and Westfield Plaza Camion Real. I pledge the following to you:

1. Protecting your tax dollars and keeping our city’s finances robust so we can afford first-class public services and facilities and improve infrastructure without raising your fees or taxes.

2. Making sure every spending decision considers our overall current fiscal condition and future financial health, avoiding overspending and wasteful government spending.

3. Understanding and responding to your voices and your desires as a council member for the entire city of Carlsbad, banishing the current Quadrant split mindset. A council member who adheres to a strong philosophy of fiscal responsibility and who will protect our reserve funds. Any spending of these funds must be within the framework of a public review of that spending.