- Occupation: Clergyman
 - 1st Vice President Salinas Valley Chamber of Commerce, Education Committee
 - April 13, 2000 Daily Point of Light, National Point of Light Foundation
 - Monterey County Health Consortium Member
 - Educational Development Corporation, Newton, MA Advisory Board
 - Former Executive Director Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, Salinas
 - Partners For Peace, Past President
  
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Top Priorities if Elected |   
- Improved Communication (schools and community; parents/guardians and teachers)
 - Student Health (Type II Juvenile Diabetes, Obesity and Dental Health too high)
 - School Safety, including helping all students feel safe and positive about attending classes and graduating from high school.
  
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- Mayor Anna Caballero, City of Salinas
 - Basil Mills
 - Supervisor Fernando Armenta, County of Monterey
  
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- School and Community Partnership
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The needs are too great and resources too limited for all of us
concerned with education not to cooperate and partner with each
other and with municiple and private agencies.
 - School and Community Safety/Peace
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Hope must be planted. Jobs and understanding offered.  Peace
and safety begins at school and moves into our streets.
 - Facilities-- just the beginning.
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Students need modern classrooms, laboratories and athletic
facilities, but they also need the support of the community to do
their very best.
  
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