League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Santa Clara County, CA November 6, 2012 Election
	Mark S. Tiernan Answers Questions Candidate for Council Member; City of Milpitas

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Questions & Answers

1. What experience related to city government would you bring to the City Council?

I served on the Milpitas Planning Commission from 2009 through 2011, including one term as Chair. I currently serve as President of the Milpitas Rotary Club. I have been active in local organizations such as the Milpitas Food Pantry, the Family Giving Tree, and Milpitas Little League.

2. What concerns are of particular importance to the city and how would you address them?

We need to have focus on Public Safety, Economic Development, and supporting our Milpitas Unified School District.

Recently I was one of the leaders to persuade our City Council not to move forward with a process that could have resulted in outsourcing our law enforement services. We have a great Milpitas Police Department with tremendous response times. Some on the City Council advocated outsourcing as a way to save money and our community strongly disagreed.

We need to be more agressive in recruiting small and medium size companies to come to Milpitas to promote Economic Development. As Chair of the Planning commission I lead the effort to streamline our Conditional Use Permit Process, making it faster, cheaper, and more transparent for local companies to expand and new companies to locate in Milpitas.

We need a new grammar school and a new high school in Milpitas to make sure our children have the same educational opportunities that we had growing up. If elected I will work closely with our school district to provide city support in obtaining the land necessary to get these schools built.

3. How would you balance the needs of the city as a whole with groups’ interests?

My first question will always be what is in the best interests of the people of Milpitas. My supporters know that I will not be beholden to any groups, that I will put the people first.

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