Candidates
(Vote for 2)
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Stanley Cohen
2,095 votes
22.4%
Joanne B. Sanders
1,998 votes
21.3%
- Occupation: Small Business Owner
- B.A. Degree Business Management, Sonoma State University
- Commissioner, Sonoma Valley Citizens Advisory Commission
- INC 500 Award Recipient
- President and Founder, BOLT Staffing Service, Inc.
Priorities:
- Planned and Limited Growth
- Better Paying Jobs
- Improved Traffic Safety and Circulation
Patrick L. Wofford
1,938 votes
20.7%
- Occupation: Small Business Owner
- Chair, Traffic Safety Committee, City of Sonoma
- Chair, Anti Casino Campaign, City of Sonoma
- Former Board Member, COAST
- Co-founder, Environmental Education Project
Priorities:
- Traffic, both reduction and increased safety
- Growth--decreasing our rate
- Public input--we need to get more people involved
Tom Anderson
1,866 votes
19.9%
- Occupation: Risk Management Consultant
- Sonoma League of Historic Preservation
- Planning Commission Chairman
- Sonoma Valley Chamber of Commerce endorsed candidate and member
- Sonoma Land Trust
- Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
- Green Belt Alliance
Priorities:
- Traffic Management: We must do a better job with traffic circulation using technoogies such as "Smart-Light"
- Manage growth: Our new City Development Code will help us balance and guide us in the future on how to use our remaining infill properties
- Affordable Housing: We can have it for both seniors and others by using good planning measures.
Thomas A. Haeuser
748 votes
8.0%
Chris Elms
726 votes
7.7%
- Occupation: Investor, Writer, Consultant
- Garden Designer: Sonoma Garden Park, E 7th and Denmark (visit it!)
- B.A. Stanford, M.A. (Psychology) Lone Mountain College
- Trainee in Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education
- Relationship Coach, writing book: Wonderful Relationship
- Certification in Permaculture Design
- Ride bicycle more than in a car, for love of life, not to be good
Priorities:
- Slow down traffic; 20 mph in residential; more enforcement; make it safe for children and bikes and walkers
- Slow down building; cut in half the permitted rate of building
- Invlovle ecology (and/or what's best for children) in all decisions
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