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From the Dana Point News & Dana Point Times Q&A. To be posted as
they are asked by the respective newspapers. Questions asked by the residents of Q I am asked, “How you think the City is
doing in serving their residents”. A In the Spring of 2010, we contracted with
True North, a well respected survey organization, to conduct a survey on how
the residents of Dana Point thought the City Council and our staff were doing
to serve the community. The results came back and stated that the 96% of
the residents were either extremely satisfied or satisfied with the services
they were receiving. To read the complete report, click on True
North Survey. Q Why do you Continue to support citizen participation via Subcommittees, Commissions, and Task Forces? A I believe involving as many citizens
into the into the process you ultimately get a better result. It may be
a slower process, but it is worth it; you tend to get better solutions, and
stronger support. Two good cases are the Building Height Subcommittee
and the Q What do you mean, "Answer to nobody but you—the residents, ensuring a transparent, fair and ethical City government"? A Just look at my record on the City Council and Planning Commission. I listen to the Staff reports and recommendation, Public Comments, and fellow colleagues discussions and vote based on all the input. In addition, I am a proponent of retaining the use of Task Forces, Subcommittees and all other form of citizen input. Q How are you going to continue to clean-up our beaches and waters A I will continue the quest for clean beaches and waters and go after funding from whatever sources we can find. As many of you know, we have little direct control as the beaches are owned by the county or state, and some of our pollution comes from upstream on San Juan and Salt Creek. Two good examples are the grants obtained in conjunction with the city to study pollution at Doheny Beach and Baby Beach, and the grant to build the Salt Creek Urban Runoff Treatment Facility which won an award for the Public Works Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association (APWA) |
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