| Santa Barbara County, CA | November 2, 2004 Election |
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Lompoc 2020By Michael V. BarriereCandidate for City Council Member; City of Lompoc |
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What Lompoc will be like in 2020 will be shaped in this election and decisions made in the next 4 years.City Finances and Growth issues become increasingly important as we look ahead to 2020. There is no sense of vision at City Hall in terms of how the decisions we make fit, or where they will lead us. This Council seems to be pointed in a direction that no one can summarize in clear terms. This is the election to decide whose ideas and whose vision will guide us to what future. My vision of growth and fiscal responsibility is clear. The pieces I add here are "Wind Energy" and mid-county independence. Today, as in 2020, energy will be the engine of sustaining appropriate growth and economic vitality. The world knows it, the U.S. and California know it. Thanks to our fore-mothers and fathers, we largely control our destiny because we are an "enterprise utility" community. Wi-Fi, Fiber-Optics, water, trash, and wind energy (all issues I deal with on the Utility Commission) are critically important. Just look at Santa Maria compared to Santa Barbara. We can invest in the infrastructure to control our own energy future using the very wind we have been given. Although this Council supported my proposal to begin studying wind energy (and that work has begun), some members of this Council alternatively argue against it. This does not constitute leadership, vision, nor reflect a desire for dialogue. Rather, as in so many other respects, it is a shadow cast by a Council consumed with its' own agenda that doesn't appear to actually serve the community. |
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