Rebekah is running to deliver real progress on the issues District 5 families talk about at their kitchen tables: safe neighborhoods, a working local economy, and a city government that gets things done.

Public Safety

Safety. Families should feel comfortable walking to their local parks, running errands in their neighborhoods, and sitting on their porches at night. Everyone deserves the right to public safety.

Policing. We must continue the work to rebuild our police force to adequate numbers, improve response times, and continue being uncompromising against violent crime. We must invest in more non-police interventions. We must repair the broken relationships between police and the communities they are charged with protecting and serving. We must get tough on the root causes of crime: under- and unemployment, poverty and lack of opportunity.

Domestic violence and trafficking. Protecting women, children, and other vulnerable people.

Healthy Communities

Housing insecurity and the unhoused
Environment: confronting climate change and sea level rise
Infrastructure: street repair and potholes, lighting, pedestrian and bicycle safety, public spaces
Code enforcement: derelict buildings, abandoned cars, graffiti and trash, dumping, empty commercial buildings

Economic Development

The Abundant Society. I believe in abundance rather than a scarcity mindset. Vallejo is full of talent, drive, ideas, and ambition. When we unleash that toward the interests we have in common, great educational opportunities, safe streets, and good jobs, we all rise together.

Support for small business, nonprofits, and the arts. Better support our local businesses. Several business districts criss-cross District 5: Sonoma Blvd, Tennessee St, Tuolumne St, Solano, Georgia, Alameda/Broadway, Amador, Redwood, Benicia Rd, and along Interstate 80. These are the backbone of Vallejo's economy and quality of life.

Regional partnerships and cooperation. Since Mare Island Naval Shipyard closed 30 years ago, Vallejo has not rebuilt a viable economic engine to support our residents' needs. First, we must unify around a new vision for Vallejo's future. Second, City staff must build the systems and make the case to attract thriving enterprises to choose Vallejo. Our city is part of the regional fabric of commerce and is not buffered from the area's economic and social headwinds and tailwinds. We must proactively build regional cooperation and partnerships to lift up Vallejo as a center for manufacturing, ship building, technology, health, tourism, the arts, or anything else. Almost 10 years ago, with concerted community input, the City of Vallejo adopted its 'Propel Vallejo' General Plan 2040. It's time to dust it off and bring it to life.

Access to Opportunity

Education and training: multiple job and career paths, more apprenticeship programs
Jobs
Enrichment: arts and culture, recreation, hobbies and new skills, youth activities

Leadership

I'm trained in the best leadership practices:

  • Knowing how to navigate city hall
  • Prioritizing
  • Defining problems and their causes
  • Organizing work
  • Listening and identifying common interests
  • Building partnership
  • Leading teams
  • Leading through change
  • Pivoting and flexibility
  • Systems thinking
  • Planning
  • Implementation
  • Building coalitions
  • Seeking differing points of view
  • Inclusive decision making
  • Facilitation across differences
  • Clear expectations, roles, and boundaries

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