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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 2004-5, 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
www.cityofcalabasas.com, or email
washburnd1@aol.com.
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