Friday, August 10, 2012

Initial view of Pacifica city council candidates - Victor Spano


Candidate to fill the 2 year city council vacancy.

Victor Spano for city council website
Pacifica Patch/Elections/Gideon Rubin, 8/8/12.  "Spano stakes out pro-growth stance in Pacifica council race."
 
"I feel I'm aligned with (mayor pro tem) Len Stone and (councilmember) Mary Ann Nihart and the direction that they've tried to take in recent months," Spano said.

 "If you have more businesses in Pacifica you're going to generate more sales tax revenues."

He's made economic development his life's work, serving as an economic development coordinator in Daly City since 1999... He completed his master's degree in economic development at USC."  Read Article


Submitted by Robert Hutchinson

Posted by Kathy Meeh

7 comments:

Hutch said...

Mr Spano seems to be exactly the right person. He comes out and says what he means. Not trying to please everyone. Willing to work with Len and Mary Ann. Love how he left out Sue.

We need to elect 2 candidates who will pledge to put our economic crisis on the from burner. Not bow down to the anti everything faction and not resort to taxing us more for less and less services.

I will be interested to know how Victor feels about reducing costs of city services without reducing services further.neyahil 576

Anonymous said...

On Fox News- Cities Going Broke. Reporting Now.

Scared.

Anonymous said...

What about this?

http://thereveredreview.com/2012/08/will-history-repeat-itself-moving-and-removing-people-in-california/

"The nine Bay Area counties impacted by Plan Bay Area include seven million people. Please understand how dangerous this centralized plan is: take a moment and read the words of Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) in a May 17, 2010 memorandum to the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Heminger regretfully conceded that he lacked authority to implement draconian steps such as “moving 200,000 people, over and above current projections, in 2035 to San Francisco to better match jobs with workers; [or] alternatively, we remove a like number of people in several suburban counties that have much higher jobs/housing imbalances.” The letter was exposed on a Bay Area Talk show (KSFO, AM560) on July 17, 2012. You can listen to the discussion here."

Anonymous said...

"What about this?"

Are you lost? Expect Victor Spano to run for city council on this platform?

ABAG estimates 200,000 additional people will live in the Bay Area by 2035. Planning for the population increase is necessary. To decentralize, maybe the GGNRA will give-back some the property the NIMBYS gave them.

Anonymous said...

Hahaha, ABAG, hehehe. ABAG couldn't project a movie much less the future population of the Bay Area.

Anonymous said...

This guy has exactly the professional background in economic development that we need.
He has a reputation as being hard working, effective and politically astute and even this early, his campaign reflects that.
Unless he derails, I'm voting for his expertise because we have none
in-house. That's one!

Anonymous said...

Kathy, it's hypocritical to complain about anonymous posting when you do it all the time.

This isn't a dig, but just the kind of grammar pointer that I'd want someone to give me if I were in your shoes: hyphenating the last two words in a clause does not make the preposition go-away.