Jake Mackenzie
Candidate for Council Member, City of Rohnert Park
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 12:21 p.m.
Age: 69
Hometown: Rohnert Park
Occupation: Retired U.S. EPA pesticide regulator
Background: 12 years on the Rohnert Park City Council; serves on eight county and regional boards
Web site: www.jakemackenzie.org
Priorities:
1. Revenue. Protect revenues from sales-tax-generating businesses and from hotel taxes; protect the city from the sewer-rate rollback initiative; build out to the General Plan limits and increase city income.
2. Safest City on Highway 101. Maintain a stable Public Safety Department with full complement of officers trained and on the streets with continuing excellent response times and a fine enforcement record.
3. Sustainability. Continue sustainable actions and ordinances. We will build a city that is truly "green" and economically viable to hand on to our successors.
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