Candidate for
Councilmember; City of Rancho Palos Verdes

As a candidate he has taken the unusual step of preparing a Platform addressing 10 issues facing RPV. The most important are "people oriented" including personal safety, the aging infrastructure and the needs of our youth and seniors. Don's engineering and management background is unique among the candidates and it would be an asset in addressing these issues. Although there are varying opinions as to the extent and timing of RPV's storm drain/sewer problems the magnitude may be as high as $30M spread over 10 years. How to prioritize and deal with individual problem areas will require insight and practical decision making skills. Ironically the $3M/year investment is about the same as should be occurring from Trump National Golf Club and Long Point if we had been more accommodating with the developers. There is also a significant issue of budget priorities in which the Sheriff's budget, road repairs/maintenance, youth athletic facilities, etc have been shortchanged for spending on open space consultants and expensive information technology. If the deal to buy 700+ acres of land from developers for $27M falls apart as it now appears that it will, RPV will have been stuck with hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs-but will still exceed the federal guideline for natural space per capita and still not meet the standard for active space per capita. The complete Platform and his positions on each of the 10 issues can be found at http://www.palosverdes.com/donreeves while his ballot statement can be found at http://www.reeves4rpv.com