CALABASAS CITY COUNCIL GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007

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1 CALABASAS CITY COUNCIL GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007 Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees Office Election for Districts 1, 3, 5, 7 MARK AND SAVE THIS SAMPLE BALLOT FOR USE AT YOUR POLLING PLACE OR FOR VOTING YOUR VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT POLLS OPEN AT 7 A.M. AND CLOSE AT 8 P.M. VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT APPLICATION ON BACK COVER THE LOCATION OF YOUR POLLING PLACE IS SHOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF BACK COVER CAUTION: Your polling place may have been changed from a previous election.

2 FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE Pursuant to federal law, voter information and sample ballots have also been translated in the following language: FARSI If you would like a copy of the translated ballot and sample ballot, at no cost to you, please telephone: The Office of the City Clerk at the phone number listed on the back of this pamphlet. VOTE BY MAIL AVAILABLE TO ALL VOTERS To apply for a MAIL BALLOT, fill in the Application Form on the back page of this Voter Information Pamphlet and mail it to the City Clerk by the deadline stated on the form itself. Calabasas / 2

3 INSTRUCTIONS FOR OPTO-MARK BALLOTS INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: To vote for any candidate whose name appears on the ballot, completely fill in the oval in the area to the right of the arrow pointing from the candidate(s) of your choice with a BLACK OR DARK COLORED PEN ONLY! Where two or more candidates for the same office are to be elected, vote for all candidates for that office for whom you desire to vote, not to exceed, however, the number of candidates who are to be elected. To vote for a qualified write-in candidate (a person not listed on the ballot), write the name of the qualfied write-in candidate in the blank space provided for that purpose under the appropriate office heading and completely fill in the oval in the area to the right of the name written in. You must fill in the oval next to the name you write in or your vote will not be counted. To vote on any measure, completely fill in the oval in the area to the right of the arrow pointing from the word "YES" or from the word "NO" with a BLACK OR DARK COLORED PEN ONLY! All marks except the voting mark are forbidden. All distinguishing marks or erasures are forbidden and make the ballot void. If you wrongly mark, tear or deface the ballot card, return it to the precinct board member and obtain another. Calabasas / 3

4 V O T I N G I N S T R U C T I O N S INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: To vote for any candidate, completely fill in the oval in the area to the right of the arrow pointing from the candidate(s) of your choice with a BLACK OR DARK PEN ONLY. Make sure you do not vote for more candidates than there are to be elected. To vote for a qualified write-in candidate, write the name in the blank space left for that purpose and completely fill in the oval in the area TO THE RIGHT OF THE WRITE-IN NAME. All marks except the voting mark are forbidden. All distinguishing marks or erasures are forbidden and make the ballot void. If you wrongly mark, tear or deface the ballot card, return it to the precinct board member and obtain another. I HAVE VOTED HAVE YOU? OFFICIAL BALLOT CITY OF CALABASAS GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007 THIS BALLOT STUB SHALL BE REMOVED AND RETAINED BY THE VOTER Mark your choice(s) by FILLING IN OVAL COMPLETELY with a BLACK OR DARK PEN ONLY. NO CITY OF CALABASAS For MEMBER of the CITY COUNCIL Vote for no more than TWO DENNIS WASHBURN Councilmember / Foundation Director BARRY GROVEMAN Calabasas City Councilmember TOBY KEELER Media Specialist DALE REICHENEDER Lawyer LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT For MEMBER of the BOARD of TRUSTEES Seat No. 1 Vote for ONE SYLVIA SCOTT-HAYES Member of the Board of Trustees GUY HAJIME MATO Businessman / Deputy Sheriff For MEMBER of the BOARD of TRUSTEES Seat No. 3 Vote for ONE JOZEF THOMAS ESSAVI Boardmember / Neighborhood Council MONA FIELD Member of the Board of Trustees For MEMBER of the BOARD of TRUSTEES Seat No. 5 Vote for ONE HANNA HAJJAR Engineer / Inventor / Entrepreneur ROY BURNS Educator / Teacher MIKE RIVES Cancer Center Coordinator GEORGIA L. MERCER Member of the Board of Trustees For MEMBER of the BOARD of TRUSTEES Seat No. 7 Vote for ONE WARREN T. FURUTANI Member of the Board of Trustees HECTOR FERMIN GURULE Businessman, Computer Technology S A M P L E B A L L O T 1

5 VOTER INFORMATION PAMPHLET The following pages contain: CANDIDATE STATEMENTS Each Candidate s Statement in this pamphlet is volunteered by the candidate. Although all candidates had the opportunity to submit a statement, some candidates may not have submitted a statement. A complete list of candidates appears on the sample ballot page of this pamphlet. NOTE: The City of Los Angeles Election Code does not provide for the printing of candidate statements. Therefore, this pamphlet does not include statements for candidates of the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Los Angeles Community College District. Please direct questions regarding this matter to the City of Los Angeles Election Division at (213) LOS ANGELES COUNTY General Voter Information To find your Polling Place: Click on Registrar of Voters Operations Click on Polling Place & Sample Ballot Look Up Follow directions. Calabasas / 5

6 FOR MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL DENNIS WASHBURN Occupation: Executive Director, Foundation for Pierce College; Mayor of Calabasas; Mediator, Southern California Mediation Group; Vice President/Director, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains; Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commissioner My sixteen years of service and accomplishments has culminated in our new Calabasas Civic Center project and a General Plan Update for our future. As a founder of Calabasas in 1991, serving four times as your Mayor during four council terms, I ve honed the experience, drive, and dedication to build the Calabasas of our dreams. We re embarked on a two-year Civic Center project to deliver a spectacular Library-Theater-Amphitheater complex and our own Calabasas City Hall to serve us for decades. We ve achieved most of the goals of our original General Plan and established our place in Southern California. Now, we need to address the critical issues of traffic congestion relief, infrastructure improvement, housing affordability, preservation of our environment, enhancement of our quality of life, economic development, and improvement of our municipal services and staff. I have devoted myself to advancing the institutions and relationships that make our job of community building in Calabasas effective and efficient. I am a founder and 3-term President of our Las Virgenes-Malibu Council of Governments (LVMCOG) and represent Calabasas and the four other area cities on the Regional Council of the Southern California Association of Governments, where I chair the Energy and Environment Policy Committee and its Water Policy Task Force. I served as President of the 88-city Los Angeles County Division of the League of California Cities , and now serve as the LA Division Director on the League s State Board. I am a 2-term member of the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission and bring environmental and funding benefits to our LVMCOG citizens. As a 20-year Director of the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains, and as its Malibu Creek Watershed Council Chairperson since 1990, I have earned Calabasas a ringside seat in the arena of our region s environmental and water quality management needs and interests. I ve promoted Calabasas trails, parks and open space acquisition like the Ahmanson and Gillette Ranches, streams master plans on Las Virgenes Creek and Headwaters Corner, and the best parties, festivals and recreation facilities and programs that we can imagine. My UC Berkeley BA in International Relations stimulates our Sister Cities programs. My Marketing and Finance MBA fuels our business and economic development initiatives, and my Public Sector Mediator credentials help smooth the inevitable conflicts in developing Calabasas community. I would appreciate your vote and your ideas. Read more at or washburnd1@aol. com. FOR MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL BARRY GROVEMAN Age: 53 Occupation: Member of the Calabasas City Council Former Mayor of Calabasas Environmental Attorney Former Prosecutor Co-Author Proposition 65, California s Landmark Environmental Law (Safe Drinking Water Act) As a current member of the City Council, former Mayor and longstanding resident of Calabasas, I worked hard to reduce traffic, preserve open space and protect our environment. I Introduced Bold Government Reforms to modernize accounting systems, cut waste and improve efficiency and accountability. In 2005 the City s credit rating was increased and the CFO reported the City saved approximately $1.5 million dollars, over the past 2 years. I am determined to do more. I ask for an opportunity to continue to bring experience, rational thinking, fresh ideas and ambitious goals to the city council. I am proud to have the endorsement of every member of the city council. Experience and Achievements A co-author of California s Landmark Environmental Law, Proposition 65, a former prosecutor with a decade of service to the public, and currently an environmental attorney and national expert on perchlorate contamination, I understand the challenge of setting high goals and getting results. As promised, I led successful initiatives to Reduce Traffic Congestion, Re-established a City-wide School Bus Program, developed the Traffic Plan for School Zones and created the Office of Traffic Coordinator. I have been aggressive in protecting the Environment by: acquiring and preserving Open Space, helped the successful fight to acquire Ahmanson Ranch and Soka University as public parkland; supported the successful Measure O which prevents sale of our open space unless approved by voters. As President of the Education Fund, I introduced proposals to help fund schools, reduce class size and add counselors. I spearheaded the city s efforts to build Brandon s Village, an extraordinary playground for typical and special needs children. I established a program to provide a housing subsidy for elderly and disabled residents and advocated on behalf of senior housing. I helped improve the Calabasas Emergency Response Program and as Mayor, I coordinated Calabasas s response efforts in the recent Topanga Canyon Fire Emergency. I ll continue to be vigilant and keep Calabasas very low in crime and fast in emergency response times and will continue to work hard to reduce traffic, promote programs for teen sobriety and preserve our quality of life. Please visit : I respectfully ask for your vote on March 6 for a second term. Calabasas / 6

7 FOR MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL TOBY KEELER Since 1991, I have been actively involved in our community. I am a co-founder of the Old Topanga Homeowners, served as a Planning Commissioner, and as a three term president of the Las Virgenes Homeowners Federation. I am privileged to have been selected for the Wall of Honor at City Hall. From cityhood in 1991, Calabasas prided itself on controlled growth, and a strong commitment to the environment, the preservation of open space, viewsheds, and the protection of ecologically sensitive areas including wildlife corridors, streams, oak woodlands, ridgeline and other natural resources. Build to fit the land has been the primary mandate for development in the Calabasas General Plan as well as the county North Area Plan. Consistency in the planning of undeveloped lands is essential to preserving the semirural quality of life that makes Calabasas unique. Voters agreed overwhelmingly by defeating the Malibu Valley Inn & Spa (Measure C) in the last election. The remaining undeveloped open space is what makes our small city such a desirable place to live. Once it s gone, it s gone forever, and Calabasas becomes like the rest of the Valley. More development not only means less open space, it translates into more trafffi c, overcrowded schools, a diminished quality of life and lower property values. Has Calabasas done everything possible to fit the land? Here are a handful of examples. The once master planned pastoral hillsides along Las Virgenes Road are now a wall of development. Despite pledges to State Parks and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, new construction in Calabasas is plainly visible from Malibu Creek State Park. Ignoring California Supreme Court rulings, lot line adjustments have been granted to the developer of large parcels in the rural community without notifying adjacent property owners. In the face of evidence for potentially significant environmental impacts, projects in a mountain headwaters area have been exempted from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and approved. And a ruling that swimming pools are considered a permeable surface just to meet Clean Water Act requirements is nothing short of baffling. Do such actions show respect for the land, or just more heavy-handed urban development? FOR MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL DALE REICHENEDER Age: 41 Occupation: Lawyer I have been a resident of Calabasas for approximately 8 years and am proud to live here. I have, however, become very concerned about the type of growth our City is currently experiencing. As a practicing lawyer in the construction industry, I have seen how unregulated development can ruin communities. I would like to help stop this ever increasing trend of rubber stamping commercial and large scale residential development in our City. This unchecked development is overburdening our roads and causing ever increasing traffi c overfl ow problems throughout our City, changing once quiet residential streets into heavy traffi c thoroughfares. The residents of Calabasas will be my foremost concern, not those of developers. I also will strive to increase Calabasas parklands, trails and access. As a city council member, I can offer my unique legal and business experience to accomplish these important goals which are necessary to preserve our special City of Calabasas. Thank you for your support, Dale Reicheneder Voters deserve a choice at election time. Change is needed to get Calabasas back on course to more environmentally responsible growth, with accountable leadership and a return to more community involved decision making. I respectfully solicit your vote for Calabasas City Council on March 6th. /s/ Toby Keeler Calabasas / 7

8 Mark your calendar. Don t forget to Vote on MARCH 6, 2007 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat ELECTION DAY VOTE MARCH 6, 2007 WARNING!!! Your POLLING PLACE for this CITY ELECTION may be different from the polling place you went to for the last County Election. Please check the back page of this pamphlet for the correct location. Calabasas / 8

9 BECOME A PERMANENT ABSENT VOTER Pursuant to California Elections Code 3201,... Any voter may apply for Permanent Absent Voter status. This means for all future elections, you will automatically be mailed a ballot for every election you are eligible to participate in. You will no longer have to fill out a Mail Ballot/Absent Voter Ballot Application form, from either the back of the Sample Ballot booklet, or from any candidate or committee who circulates such forms. Pursuant to California Elections Code 3206,... Any voter whose name appears on the permanent absent voter list shall remain on the list and shall be mailed a mail ballot for each election conducted within his/her precinct. If the voter fails to return an executed mail ballot for any 2 consecutive statewide general elections, the voter s name shall be deleted from the list. You may request an application for Permanent Absent Voter Status from the LOS ANGELES COUNTY ELECTION DEPARTMENT by phone: by writing: REGISTRAR-RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK P.O. BOX LOS ANGELES, CA From: Place 39 Stamp Here OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK MUREAU RD CALABASAS CA ! !

10 OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK MUREAU RD CALABASAS CA / FAX 818/ PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 20 La Mirada, CA POLLS OPEN AT 7 A.M. AND CLOSE AT 8 P.M. WHEN A POLLING PLACE IS INACCESSIBLE TO THE HANDICAPPED, BALLOT MAY BE VOTED OUTSIDE THE POLLING PLACE NOTICE TO PERMANENT ABSENT VOTERS: You are registered as a Permanent Absentee Voter if the word *** NOTICE *** is printed below as your Polling Place location. If you are a Permanent Absentee Voter, you DO NOT have to complete this Application to Vote by Mail, or any other Absentee Voter Application you receive from candidates or committees. A Vote By Mail Ballot will automatically be mailed to you. TEAR ON PERFORATED LINE AND ATTACH POSTAGE TO REVERSE SIDE APPLICATION TO VOTE BY MAIL CITY OF CALABASAS GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION, MARCH 6, 2007 To obtain a vote by mail ballot, complete the information on this form. This application may be faxed to the elections official. This application MUST BE RECEIVED by the elections official by: FEBRUARY 27, 2007 PLEASE PRINT NAME: RESIDENCE ADDRESS: (AS REGESTERED) MAIL MY BALLOT TO: (If different from above) Number and Street City Zip Code Number and Street City Zip Code FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY: Precinct No. Ballot Group No. Date Issued Date Returned Ballot No. (optional) SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT (Must be signed to be processed) Date Daytime Phone No. Date of Birth THIS APPLICATION WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT THE PROPER SIGNATURE OF THE APPLICANT I have not applied for a vote by mail ballot for this election by any other means. I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the name and residence address and information I have provided on this application are true and correct. WARNING: Perjury is punishable by imprisonment in state prison for two, three or four years. (Section 126 of the California Penal Code.) Ballot Group No. and Voter ID No. Precinct No. Polling Place K *i BALLOT TYPE Polling Place Description Polling Place Address Precinct No. and Handicapped Accessibility* POSTMASTER DELIVER TO: {