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Orange County, CA November 2, 2010 Election
Smart Voter Political Philosophy for Shari L. Freidenrich

Candidate for
Treasurer-Tax Collector; County of Orange

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As the Elected Treasurer for the City of Huntington Beach, I have been performing almost identical duties as the County Treasurer.

Some of my key accomplishments at the City of Huntington Beach include:

  • Maintaining liquidity and zero loss of funds due to credit quality in the current challenging economic environment
  • Implementing on-line web and IVR payment options for utility payments and other City invoice by credit cards and electronic checks to provide customers with 24/7 payment options
  • Automating annually almost $20 million in receipts and over 250,000 transactions (over 45% of all receipts) in the last three years through the above programs and partnering with certain banking institutions to accept electronic payments
  • Implementing electronic payment and billing programs for utility customers, allowing customers to "Go Green Electronically"
  • Received the 2008 Huntington Beach Environmental Board's " Top Business Green Award " for saving over 12 tons of paper annually
  • Implemented the prepaying of pension expenses which allowed the City to reduce expenses for pensions by over $400,000 annually
  • Worked on legislation that ensured that the existing property tax revenue from the Electric Generating facility located in Huntington Beach would be locally allocated versus being allocated on a unitary (countrywide) basis that brings in close to $1 million property tax to the City annually
  • Audited and implemented tighter controls over cash, contracts, and cash management processes resulting in savings of over $15 million to the City since 1996

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