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Jesse Townley
17456 votes
14.35%
- Occupation: Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner
- Chair & Vice Chair, Disaster & Fire Safety Commission
- Producer, KALX Public Affairs Department
- Board Member, Independent Arts & Media
- former Executive Director & Vice President Board of Directors, Easy Does It Disability Assistance non-profit
- Member, Uprisings Bakery Collective
- Former Secretary, Alternative Music Foundation (a.k.a. 924 Gilman Street)
Priorities:
- Comprehensively prepare tenants and landlords for the next earthquake & wildfire, including CERT training & emergency supply caches
- Ensure cost-effective seismic retrofitting of all rental property, including through the Soft Story Ordinance
- Expand the greening of all rental units by pushing composting, recycling, and solar power
Pamela W "Pam Webster" Webster
16117 votes
13.25%
- Occupation: Rent Board Commissioner
- Vice President Board of Ecology Center
- Manager, Patron Services, California Shakespeare Theater
- Downtown YMCA Family Night Co-ordinator
- Former Berkeley Citizen Environmental Advisory Commissioner
- Former co-chair Downtown YMCA Youth Support Campaign
- Former Executive Committee member Sierra Club Northern Alameda County Group
Priorities:
- Better enforcement of Soft Story Ordinance to warn and prepare tenants in seismically unsafe buildings.
- Expand outreach to all Berkeley tenants and small property owners
- Protect older rent-controlled buildings from demolition and redevelopment.
Dave Blake
15784 votes
12.98%
- Occupation: book editor, Rent Board Vice-Chair
Priorities:
- Restoring the credibility of the Berkeley League of Women Voters
Lisa Stephens
15336 votes
12.61%
- Occupation: Rent Board Commissioner
Katherine Harr
15231 votes
12.52%
- Occupation: Appointed Rent Board Commissioner
- Administrator/Development Associate, Eviction Defense Collaborative
- Block Captain, Shotwell-Horace-Folsom Neighborhood Watch
- Tenants Rights Counselor, San Francisco Tenants Union
- Volunteer and DJ, KUSF San Francisco
- Volunteer music festival producer
Priorities:
- Outreach and education
- Owners and tenants in foreclosures
- Condition of housing
Asa Dodsworth
15022 votes
12.35%
- Occupation: Sustainable Landscape Designer
- Berkeley Tenant Convention Endorsed Candidate 2010
- Former Zero Waste Commission Vice-Chair
- Certified Permaculture Designer
- 11 year Member, and Cook House host for Berkeley Food Not Bombs
- Berkeley Native, no previous ones elected to represent Berkeley
Priorities:
- Outreach: without effective outreach, tenant protections and rent control will be unused, leaving tenants abused.
- Earthquake Safety, inspecting Berkeley's 200+ Soft Story buildings for safety, and require them all to be brought to current earthquake safety code.
- Require that all multi unit rental complexes make Recycling and Municpal Food Waste Composting available to tenants.
George David Perezvelez
9308 votes
7.65%
- Occupation: Commissioner/Restaurant Manager
- Chair Berkeley Police Review Commission
- Commissioner Berkeley Commission on Labor
- Alameda County Progressive Writer for Examiner.com
- United States Navy Veteran
- General Manager Left Bank Restaurant
Priorities:
- Soft building retrofitting Incentives
- Viable and affordable low income housing initiatives
- Inclusive community outreach programs and impartiality
Tamar Larsen
8578 votes
7.05%
- Occupation: Parent/Educator
Marcia Levenson
8124 votes
6.68%
- Occupation: Housing Advisory Commissioner
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