Candidate Statement of Qualifications
I, JUDY SHELTON, hereby declare that I am a candidate for an elective office in the City of Berkeley, and make the following statement:
1. That my name is Judy Shelton
2. The office for which I am a candidate is Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner
3. That my residence is [Contact City Clerk]
4. The place of my birth is Los Angeles
5. My present occupation is Rent Board Commissioner
6. I have held the following public offices: Rent Board Commissioner; Member, Outreach Committee; Member, Individual Rent Adjustment/Annual General Adjustment/Habitability Committee; Member, Eviction/Section 8/Foreclosure Committee/Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Smoke-Free Housing; Former Member and Chair of the Waivers Committee
7. Record of community service: Seeds Mediation Center, Berkeley Library Literacy Program, Volunteer Coordinator “No on 98” campaign, co-coordinated community involvement in Berkeley Honda Strike, Berkeley Schools Writer Coach
8. I am a taxpayer in the City of Berkeley.
9. I am a community-endorsed candidate for affordable housing. During my term, I have stressed justice and evenhandedness. I have worked to combat tenant harassment, evictions of below-market-rate renters, and habitability problems, emphasizing the need to retrofit seismically unsafe buildings. For small landlords I’ve initiated a special series of workshops to guide them through rent board regulations and help them avoid late-registration penalties. I’ve worked to improve every aspect of customer service. I am currently focused on dedicating a customer-service staffer to small property owners; organizing a habitability-issues workshop for tenants; and advocating at Sacramento for affordable housing legislation, especially legislation that allows cities more autonomy. This next term, I will continue to stress fairness. And I will continue to defend our rent control laws, which have helped make Berkeley a city we can all proudly call home. A diverse coalition of tenants, landlords and homeowners selected me at the 2012 Berkeley Affordable Housing Convention. Please join them and Commissioners Stephens, Blake, Webster, Townley and Harr, and EBMUD Director Andy Katz in voting for me.
10. I refer to the following residents of the City of Berkeley:
Alejandro Soto-Vigil, Vice-chair, Housing Advisory Commission & Affordable Housing Convention-Endorsed Candidate
Igor Tregub, Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner; Housing Advisory Commissioner; Affordable Housing Convention-Endorsed Candidate
Asa Dodsworth, Berkeley Rent Board Commission and Affordable Housing Convention-Endorsed Candidate
Max Anderson, City Council District 3
Jesse Arreguín, Berkeley City Council Member; former Chair, Berkeley Rent Board
Kriss Worthington, Berkeley City Council
John T. Selawsky, President, Berkeley School Board
Beatriz Levya-Cutler, Berkeley School Board Member
boona cheema, Ex. Director of BOSS
Deborah Matthews, City of Berkeley Commissioner Zoning Adjustment Board; Real Estate Broker
Willie Phillips, Board Member of Resouce Community Development
Daniel Tuchler, President, Cal Berkeley Democrats
Mary Nicely, Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Advocate
Mary Rose Kaczorowski, Calif Women’s Agenda Environmental Task Co-Chair; Graduate Student
Alex Ghenis, Disability Rights Activist; former Vice President of External Affairs, Berkeley Student Cooperative
Judy Ann Alberti, BCA, former Rent Board Commissioner
Rick Lewis, Executive Director, Bay Area Community Land Trust
Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director, Tenants Together
Winston Burton, Berkeley Board of Trustees, Chair
Patti Dacey, Planning Commissioner; Secretary, LeConte Neighborhood Association
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