Candidates
(Vote for 3)
 
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Debbie Parrish
875 votes
11.9%
- Occupation: Incumbent
 - Hospital Business Office Manager
 - Member of Citizens Advisory Committe for CCI
 - JPIA Board of Director
 - Risk Management Member / JPIA
  
Priorities:
- Maintain and provide quality water at a reasonable price
 - Continue to improve the water system
 - Work for the people of the community
  
Ed Hamlin
868 votes
11.8%
- Occupation: Assistant Research Director
 - NASA - Dryden Flight Research Center (employed22 years)
 - Vice President Eastern European Adoption Coalition (non-profit support group for parents of orphans from Russia and the former Soviet Union)
 - Former director, President, and Vice President, Tehachapi Unified School District
 - Manage very large budgets and several hundred professional staff
 - 16 year resident of Golden Hills
 - BS in Engineering, Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
  
Priorities:
- Reduce unneccessary and frivolous expenditures and accelerate debt reduction
 - Lower water rates
 - Restore credibility and responsiveness to public
  
Robert L. Yocum
866 votes
11.8% (This candidate has not responded to SmartVoter)
Eldwin "Ed"  Kennedy
776 votes
10.5% (This candidate has not responded to SmartVoter)
- Occupation: Environmental Consultant/Businessman
 - Phone: 661-822-3995; Email: exelenviro@msn.net
  
Lawrence E. McInerney
740 votes
10.1% (This candidate has not responded to SmartVoter)
Joseph B. Sasia, Jr.
713 votes
9.7%
- Occupation: Pipeline Maintenance
 - Safety Management Certified
 - HAZWOPER Level 3 Certified
 - Water Distribution Grade 1
 - 2 years experience in monitoring groundwater nitrate levels
 - 14 years experience in pipeline construction and maintenance
 - 14 years experience monitoring and recording groundwater levels
  
Priorities:
- Keep water costs from rising
 - Refine operation and maintenance costs
 - Strive to maintaine a quality and available groundwater sorce
  
David Smith
708 votes
9.6%
- Occupation: Contract Administration Aerospace
 - Federal Compliance Officer /Auditor in the Quality Assurance field for D.O.D acquisition (Aerospace)
 - FAA Airframe-Powerplant License * Graduate of Emery-Riddle Aviation University
 - California Firefighter Level II / EMT 1A certified * Antelope Valley College
 - One term (appointed) Board of Directors for Golden Hills Community Servies District
 - Non-Destructive Inspection Level II certified in Radiographics, Penetrant, Ultra Sound, Magnetic Particle and Eddy Current disciplines
 - Six years experience with the Golden Hills CSD as both citizen on various committees and as a Director
  
Priorities:
- Maintain the excellent water quality and quanity at a fair and resonable price which the comparison rate scale has demonstrated
 - Aggressively work with Tehachapi City, Community of Keene and the committes to meet our five year strategic plan for our future needs under budget
 - Work hard with the CC&R Committee to develope a single CC&R for all of GH and keep our district in the hands of the community not Privatization
  
Ernest "Bud"  Sargent
649 votes
8.8%
- Occupation: Incumbent
 - Department of Defense Complience Specialist.
 - College Degree in Business
 - Certified by DOD in Aircraft Manufacturing, Aerospace, Electronics, Quality Assurance, Statistical Sampling, and Statistical Process Control.
  
Priorities:
- I will continue my work for an improved Water System.
 - I will see that costs are kept to the minimum and still assure safe drinking water.
 - I will continue my fight to keep those with self-serving intrests from bullying the Board and staff into submission.
  
Carl H.K. Spector
439 votes
6.0% (This candidate has not responded to SmartVoter)
- Occupation: Retired Accountant/Counselor
  
Leroy E. White
418 votes
5.7% (This candidate has not responded to SmartVoter)
Clifford James "Cliff" Weyrick
311 votes
4.2%
- Occupation: Retired Contractor
 - Construction Management
 - Developed Major Domestic Water Supply
 - Installed Underground Water, Sewer & Electric
 - Estimated & Built Roads & Highways
 - Fresno State Coll., Major in Civil Engineering
 - I.C.S, Univ. of S.Fran. Civil Engineering & Psychology, etc.
  
Priorities:
- Maintain the excellent quality of our water.
 - Attempt to reduce rates as long as it doesn't compremise the quality and quantity of the water we now have.
 - Follow and maintain the dictates of the residents of Golden Hills.
  
  
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