Candidate for
Member of the State Assembly; District 37

Jon Sharkey for State Assembly Issues

Preserving neighborhoods and Fighting Sprawl

• Keep more local property tax in the community to be used in your neighborhood.
• Create incentives for livable communities.
• Reduce dependence on sales tax. End the "fiscalization of land use".
• Create incentives for jobs/housing balance, reducing impacts on streets and highways.

• Encourage parental involvement. Provide language and skills training for parents who need it.
• Repair old classrooms and build new ones where needed.
• Give tax credits to private industry for sponsoring advanced placement classes in poorer schools.
• Develop apprenticeship programs working with the private sector and labor unions so that those students who don't go to college can develop skills for good jobs.

• Develop a system of income tax sharing to encourage the creation of new jobs.
• Reform land use patterns to allow for innovative new industries.
• Vigorously protect intellectual property rights.
• Encourage investment and savings through tax reform.

• Invest in coastal protection. Protect a $23 billion a year industry.
• Outcome based, rather than punitive, enforcement of environmental laws.
• Strictly monitor pesticide use and take a vigorous approach to protecting water quality.
• Ensure an adequate supply of water for Ventura County through conservation, storage, and continues access to imported water.

• Create incentives for sensible land use and planning so that our $3 billion agricultural industry can continue to flourish while people continue to live in safe, clean, desirable neighborhoods.
• Invest in a complete transportation system, catching up on deferred maintenance of roads while at the same time developing the alternative modes of transportation that will carry us through the next century.
• Put more decision-making power back in the local community where it belongs.
• Prepare Ventura County for the 200,000 additional people who will be living here in 2020.