Denise Rushing For Supervisor 2010

Purpose

Denise's candidacy can be summed up as follows:
To actively preserve Lake County's rural character, natural health and beauty, and enhance local community well being for current and future generations.

Goals


Bring integrity and openness to government (and continue to reach out and involve people in important decisions that affect their lives )

Create a thriving local economy without sacrificing the common good.

Safeguard our local resources: Water, land, open space, and people

Get the basics of government right

Specific Actions


Bring integrity and openness to government (and continue to reach out and involve people in important decisions that affect their lives )

  • Continue regular town hall meetings and forums on key issues--in each community . Promote real and ongoing citizen input and dialog.
  • Continue to push for more transparent and accessible information at the courthouse --including making more public documents available electronically
  • Continue to Identify where key processes are not working and drive critical process improvements (example: planning in relationship to infrastructure capacity)
  • Provide regular "State of the County" updates.
  • Develop guides to decision-making processes affecting their local community to all interested parties.



    • Create a thriving local economy without sacrificing the common good .

  • Implement the new County policies on local preference and encourage citizens to support local business
  • Continue policies to bring in "green jobs" in renewable energy, waste product reuse, building with renewable materials.
  • Support facade improvement along the ecomomic corridor
  • Identify and implement actions to create a local economy within each community--especially identifying where the money leaves and initiating a plan to plug the leaks.
  • Provide oversight to redevelopment expenditures and results
  • Continue to assess, update and implement implement the NORTHSHORE REDEVLOPMENT PLAN, encouraging active citizen and community involvement in the process..

    • Safeguard our local resources: Water, land, open space, and people

  • Implement the newly updated General Plan and Shoreline Area Plans--ensure that citizen input is valued and primary in the process. Update the Housing Element.
  • In each decision, ensure that infrastructure, public safety and resources can support our communities
  • Work with state and federal legislators, as well as outside grant agencies,to obtain funding for important projects such as the near term phases of the Middle Creek Restoration project.
  • Encourage involvement in volunteer organizations for lake and creek maintenance and health

    • Get the basics of government right

  • Demand fiscal accountability in ALL departments. Make the tough choices to cut budgets in these economic times
  • In each decision, ensure that infrastructure, public safety and resources can support our communities
  • Work with state and federal legislators to restore funding for local government.
  • Develop local skills and encourage involvement in volunteer efforts for community projects

    • Links

  • Denise's Blog
  • Denise's Qualifications
  • About Denise

    • Vision

    Lake County, our home, is alive with a unique beauty and community of life that has sustained humans for over 10,000 years. Lake County is special for many reasons, especially:

  • Rural character, natural beauty and the abundance of nearly pristine wild land;
  • Charming small towns with their unhurried atmosphere and old-fashioned friendliness;
  • An agricultural base typified by small farms producing high value crops.

    • We must cherish what we have not only for our own health and economic well being but for future generations.

    Ultimately, our health, well-being and vitality requires that we preserve a healthy watershed with its complex ecological systems intact, a rich variety of plants and animals, fertile soils, pure waters and clean air. The protection and preservation of this vitality is a sacred trust. I believe that we have what we need here in Lake County, both the means and the abilities, to maintain the natural magnificence and sustenance for our people and the natural systems that sustain us.