General Information
Name : Dr. Linda Delehunt
Also known as : Linda
Place of residence : Orinda
Education
College
Attended college : Yes
College : UC Berkeley (B.A.), Cal State East Bay (M.S.), University of the Pacific (Doctorate)
Degree : Ed.D.
Year of graduation : 2002
Grad school
University : Cal State East Bay
Year of graduation : 1993
Ph D.
University : University of the Pacific
Area of research : Leadership characteristics and their effect on student achievement
Year of graduation : 2002
Employment Information
Job titles held : NA
Employers : State of California, Self-Employed Business Owner, Berkeley Unified School District, West Contra Costa Unified School District, Alameda Unified School District, San Francisco Unified School District, Orinda Union School District
Political Information
Party affiliation : Independent
Running for a: Local office
Running for position: Orinda City Council
Chamber/district:
Incumbent: No
Previous elective offices : NA
Unsuccessful bids for elective offices: NA
Party HQ
Address 91 Overhill Road
Orinda
California
94563
Campaign Manager
Name : Michael Delehunt
Title : Attorney
URLs
Other facts
Moving Orinda Forward I am a fiscal conservative and a sophisticated budget analyst. I have spent my career in the public sector advocating for targeting public money efficiently and effectively. I believe that people are best served by public budgets that are carefully crafted to support their needs. Orinda is in dire need of infrastructure repair and its budgets are "past due" in supporting that goal. If Humpty Dumpty were to sit on an Orinda wall, he would be in great danger of falling into a bottomless Orinda pothole. Orinda needs to move forward to correct its infrastructure deficiencies, and engage the ENTIRE community in a discussion of how best to re-configure its downtown while at the same time, honoring its general plan to support its legacy as a charming, small and unique city.
Your last post was written in a different style and voice than all previous posts. Kudos to those who helped you write it. However, it does not get you off the hook for not knowing what a deficit is in your previous posts. Nor did you respond to my question about whether or not you participated in the hearings about the ordinance to which you object. So, you are proposing to only tax those buying/selling a home to pay for our roads. Those people who have lived here for years and driven on these roads and run them into ruin without paying for them should not have to pay a penny to continue to enjoy the use of these roads. Wow. Let's screw the people coming (who can't defend themselves) and leaving (who cares, they are leaving). Let those of us who actually are responsible for the state of the roads and state of the budgets -- the long-term, ongoing residents -- laugh all the way to the bank. I'll stick with our current council, thank you. They are far from perfect and I've been all over their case about the proposed height limit being deceptive (55 feet half way up the rise of the roof) and the fact that proposed development never pays for itself (as one of them admitted), so we would be paying for the development for years to come. But, you know what? I attended meetings and hearings and made my points. AND THEY LISTENED. Has the limit been changed? Participate before you complain.
Isn't that the way we all spend our money?
We are Orinda parents who have seen the tactics bekki used to try and discredit the ousd over the past several years bekki has used underhanded methods to discredit the members of the ousd. In my book that's just plain evil. We don't need an elected official that uses underhanded methods. Vote for someone who is honest, bekki is not that person.
On other pages, when you do talk about issues and candidates for school board, could you please provide us some specific behaviors or such. This seems like a smear campaign, otherwise. Thank you.
The actions Bekki Van Voorhis-Gilbert and her "friends" are taking are destroying the possibility of a cohesive environment at Wagner Ranch. I'm sure that the vicious attacks by these so-called "community leaders" don't make it easy for Principal Arnerich to foster a "positive social climate" either. In addition, bringing up personal issues with an administrator in a public forum and then releasing it to the general public is completely inappropriate and out of place. Issues should be dealt with on an individual basis. Janice has always been incredibly supportive as a Principal and we are lucky to have such a talented and capable woman at the head of Wagner Ranch.
BigWayne19@Comcast.NET
Just remember...I am running for City Council, not School Board !
we know Linda, but some who are lobbying against school board are posting everywhere that Orindians look...that's why I asked them to move onto pages that were about that race. At least we are talking!
Join the Orinda parents who believe Bekki is Bad for the (OUSD) Board. We don't want someone who's full of negative energy. Vote positive and vote for one of the other qualified candidates. P Jason Lurie Matt Moran (i) or Sarah Butler
Ironically, on the leaf blower question, Mr. Glaser has asserted, here on Patch, that a "thorough airing" of concerns regarding LB use in Orinda was held some two years ago. I will agree that some members of the pubic, at one city council meeting, rose to speak regarding some kind of limitation on leaf blower use in Orinda. And one or more city council members added their own comments/judgment into the record, that night. (Notably Councilmember Severson advocated that those complaining of noise from leaf blowers install "triple-pane windows" and "shelter-in-place." ) That said, what transpired would not meet the dictionary or common-sense defintion of a "thorough airing." This infomed lack of satisfaction with the structure of public discussion in Orinda is what drives me to ask candidates for public office to do more and do it better, going forward.
At the 2009 Tri-Agency meeting, MOFD defended this 14% subsidy by stating that Moraga units fully serviced 700 Orinda homes and provided backup service to another 800 with no reciprocal service from Orinda into Moraga. These homes create 17% of Orinda's service and make the 14% support of Moraga's emergency services costs justifiable. However, the Task Force's review of actual operations shows that MOFD's description of service from Moraga into Orinda is unsupportable. There is, in fact, significant reciprocal service from Orinda into Moraga with the only net service from Moraga into Orinda being 100 ambulance operations per year representing about 3% of Orinda's total service. The cost of these operations is reduced by the fact that 70% of them generate user fees so the total value to Orinda residents is less than $100,000 per year. The almost $1 million of subsidy from Orinda taxpayers to Moraga is contrary to the cost-sharing basis-of-formation of MOFD when Orinda detached from ConFire for precisely this reason. Do you believe it is the Orinda Council's responsibility to act as the residents' representative to work with the MOFD Board and the Moraga Council to address this so as to prevent a drastic action such as detachment from reoccurring?
(2) Without a doubt, it is the City Council's obligation to act as the residents' representative and work with MOFD to improve this sub-standard service. (3) The City should not only become, but also become actively involved in MOFD's dealing with this issue? The City Council should begin conversation with MOFD to actively examine the budgetary situation and then utilize its best thinking to rectify the budget imbalance so as to prevent a catastrophic failure of MOFD.
The USPS's website (PDF) : "Except under 2.11 [dealing with newspaper boxes attached to mailboxes], the receptacles described in 1.1 may be used only for matter bearing postage. Other than as permitted by 2.10 or 2.11, no part of a mail receptacle may be used to deliver any matter not bearing postage, including items or matter placed upon, supported by, attached to, hung from, or inserted into a mail receptacle." Note that "door slots and non-lockable bins or troughs used with apartment house mailboxes" are excluded from this prohibition, and can be loaded up with as many flyers as they can hold. "
Thank you for your clarification of the USPS rules regarding flyers. These rules are important for all of us to understand and know as we participate in the democratic process. Just to reassure you, I am aware of these rules and have been following them as have those wonderful KNOWN individuals who have chosen to distribute on my behalf. As you might know, I have no official campaign committee; I have chosen not to take donations so as to avoid any conflicts of interest which might potentially cloud my decision-making in the event I am so fortunate to become a Councilperson. Thus, I really have no one with whom to share this USPS message. I guess what I'm trying to say is that there may be folks out there distributing on my behalf with whom I am not acquainted and so your sharing these rules is helpful to them and all. Thank you for taking the time to look up the official legal citation.
For this reason, you have not formed a campaign committee and not filed disclosure statements regarding who is supporting you with monetary and nonmonetary donations, as required by state law. Please confirm that you have paid for everything - your signs, your newspaper ads, your fliers - yourself. Thank you.