Kathleen Mello-Navejas: Environmental focus

THE RACE FOR THE CITY COUNCIL

Name: Kathleen Mello-Navejas

Age: 48

Occupation: Director of physician relations

Family: Four children, one grandchild

Community activities: Former mayor, Hawaiian Gardens; League of

California Cities; Los Angeles Sanitation Board; Vector Control (Los

Angeles); Hawaiian Gardens HeadStart; Huntington Park Chamber of

Commerce (treasurer); Huntington Park Lions; Coalition of Youth

Development; Coalition for Justice (Peace in the Middle East); Tough

Love.

I have been a lifelong activist in the area of service and

justice. My years of service have been around gang intervention and

community-type empowering programs.

Education: College, high school, completion of several programs in

mastery in transformation training

Favorite leader: Mother Teresa, Jackie Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt,

Leah Rabin and Lucille Ball.

Contact information: Cell phone (323) 823-7391 Home (714) 536-5322

work (323) 277-5872.

KATHLEEN MELLO-NAVEJAS ON:

* City Council districts:

We have 109,000 registered voters ....Our community deserves total

representation by all sectors of the community.

* Proposition 50

Not sure yet.

* Development

Downtown development standards that protect property owners is a

major problem for the owners in that area. The standards are written

not to assist them to build:

Senior housing projects

Senior center

Parking requirements that work

Affordable housing

First time homeowners programs

Upscale mall, like Santa Ana

Car dealerships

More skateboard parks

Performing arts center similar to Cerritos Performing Arts

Family entertainment centers

Upgrade the schools

Continue high income generating tax incremental businesses

Protect the beaches

Protect the sea life

Aquarium similar to Long Beach

* Water quality

We need to work with the water districts to protect our water

systems and have independent individuals testing water safety.

* The biggest issue facing Huntington Beach

Development standards and protecting the environment. The next

four years need leadership with experience and understanding to face

all the issue ahead of the community.

We need to find out why we are having increases in services that

are not acceptable. Residents and businesses deserve the large

rollout trash bins. Our alleys and streets are too beautiful to have

mediocre services.

Someone is not watching the cookie jar here. This needs to be

totally investigated. How does the recycling program work? Does the

money made offset the cost of the services?

This should be out to bid. There is no bidding process and that’s

why we have mediocre services.