Candidate Statement of Qualifications
I, IGOR A. TREGUB, 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 Igor A. Tregub
2. The office for which I am a candidate is Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner
3. That my residence is 1043 Virginia Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
4. The place of my birth is Kiev, Ukraine
5. My present occupation is Rent Board Commissioner/Housing Advisory Commissioner/ Engineer
6. I have held the following public offices: Elected Commissioner, Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board; Chair, Budget and Personnel Committee; Member, IRA/AGA/Habitability Committee; Member, Eviction/Section 8/Foreclosure Committee; Member, Committee on Waivers; Member, Outreach Committee; Commissioner, Housing Advisory Commission; Member, Housing Trust Fund Subcommittee; Interim Commissioner, Berkeley Planning Commission; Chair, Berkeley Commission on Labor; Chair, Sweatshop-Free Subcommittee; Chair, Employment Non-Profits Funding Subcommittee; Chair, Living Wage and Earned Income Tax Credit Subcommittee; Member, Right-to-Know Ordinance Subcommittee; Undergraduate Representative, UC Chancellor’s Joint Oversight Committee on Parking and Transportation.
7. Record of community service: Sierra Club Northern Alameda County Executive Committee; ASUC Senator and City Affairs Advisor; Regional Council, Bend the Arc – Jewish Partnership for Justice; New Leaders Council
8. I am a taxpayer in the City of Berkeley.
9. I am a community-endorsed candidate for affordable housing. Four years ago you elected me to this Board. Since then, I have been a leader in advocating for more affordable, safe, and sustainable housing. My work successfully achieved revisions to the city’s Relocation Ordinance, with stronger protections for temporarily displaced tenants, and expanded outreach for landlords and tenants. I also effectively advocated for an ordinance requiring seismic retrofitting of apartment buildings. In response to the growing number of foreclosures, I organized a foreclosure prevention workshop for landlords, tenants, and homeowners, which received Rep. Barbara Lee’s Certificate of Congressional Recognition. There is still more work to be done, and we need to continue to defend rent control – Berkeley’s most successful affordable housing program – from attacks. If reelected, I will promote accountability and greater efficiency so the Rent Board can better serve tenants and landlords. I ask for your vote so that together we can continue to make housing more safe, livable, and affordable. A coalition of tenants, landlords, and homeowners selected me at the 2012 Berkeley Affordable Housing Convention. Endorsers include sitting Rent Board Commissioners Stephens, Blake, Webster, Townley, and Harr, EBMUD Director Andy Katz, and Supervisor Keith Carson.
10. I refer to the following residents of the City of Berkeley:
Alejandro Soto-Vigil, Vice-Chair, Housing Advisory Commission and Berkeley Affordable Housing Convention-Endorsed Rent Board Candidate
Judy Shelton, Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner and Affordable Housing Convention-Endorsed Candidate
Asa Dodsworth, Rent Board Commissioner and Affordable Housing Convention-Endorsed Candidate
Loni Hancock, State Senator
Max Anderson, City Council District 3
Jesse Arreguín, Berkeley City Councilmember; former Chair, Berkeley Rent Board
Kriss Worthington, Berkeley City Council
John T. Selawsky, President, Berkeley School Board
Beatriz Leyva-Cutler, Berkeley School Board Member
Beverly Greene, Mentor, Black Elected Officials & Faith Based Leaders of the East Bay
Connor Landgraf, ASUC President
Daniel Tuchler, President, Cal Berkeley Democrats
Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director, Tenants Together
Deborah Matthews, Commissioner, City of Berkeley Zoning Adjustments Board
Mary Nicely, Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Advocate
Willie Phillips, Board Member of Resources for Community Development
Boona Cheema, Executive Director of BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency)
Alex Ghenis, Disability Rights Activist; former Vice-President of External Affairs, Berkeley Student Cooperative
Judy Ann Alberti, BCA, former Rent Board Commissioner
Winston Burton, Berkeley Board of Library Trustees, Chair
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