Why would he be different than the others running?

School: Cherrier, Lee and Tomlinson
Council: Zukoski, Abulencia and OK Hildenbrand (reluctantly)
Mayor: Sbranti (I feel he can be an affective leader if he can break free of the outgoing administration)

These are my endorsements for an open minded and progressive School Board. For a progressive and tough City Hall that will find a way against odds to balance out our housing imbalance created the pass 8 years and also balance out housing vs high paying job developments to put us on even playing field with our neighbors in any arena (top notch housing from both end of the spectrum, top notch schools K-12, top notch job centers/complexes, upscale retail to go with the big box variety). We need to be multi dimensional when it comes to future revenue streams as we cannot continue to rely on impact fees as the City approaches buildout.

At least set the land aside so we can talk about this another day instead of allowing more homes to be built on the last remaining possibilities.

As powerful as one reader indicate James Tong is and how wise he is, regardless why are we intimidated by a developer? He leads a Company of maybe a hundred, our City Hall leads a City of 40K plus, who should be more powerful and calling the shots? He wants something in OUR house, he must give up something else to get it. It is OUR house afterall and not his.

All we are asking for is to keep and open mind and work towards the possibility of a 2nd High School. The current board and even some City Council Members have completely shut us out, treating this quest for a 2nd High School with humor, talking down to parents who dare to bring up this subject in Public. So why to people stay anonymous? Ask the Parents who were at Fallon a couple of weeks ago, they were there in person and were just shunned when the topic was raised. Now you tell me why, these parents were not weak, they were there.

The question of Land, Financing, Daily Operation, Enrollment (current and future) is complex. We need a progressive board to be able to hash all this out and explore all avenues before saying NO WAY JOSE. What is urgetn though is setting land aside for a potential 2nd H.S. until the fat lady sings. It could be 2020 or 2025, nothing wrong with keeping some open space until we can determine if this will work or not.

We keep building houses on the remaining land then in 2020 if we find out we made a mistake and do need a 2nd H.S., where would we build it then? In Livermore?

Wallis Ranch has been brought up, Fallon Village is another. You can’t say that there is no land left when we see open fields with no development occurring on them anytime soon. The District needs to work with City Hall on identifying possible parcels to set aside, work with landowners and developers. Believe me having at least a potential for a 2nd H.S. could help these developers trying to sell the large homes up in Fallon Village.

VOTE!

It seems a very good idea to register as permanent vote-by-mail voters. This is so much easy and hassle free. If more people do this, the voting ratio will shoot up dramatically. I really like this and it it took me 5 minutes to vote and mail it out.

Here is the website. Just print out the form, fill it out in 1 minute and mail to Alameda county election office. This will be the Election 2.0 and get mainstream from its exponential growth.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_m.htm

Alameda County Elections Office:

Dave Macdonald, Registrar of Voters
1225 Fallon Street, Room G-1
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 272-6933
(510) 272-6982 Fax
Hours: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Website: http://www.acgov.org/rov/index.htm