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If you think it’s time for a new leaf in Covina politics…. |
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Thank you for your votes on March 8, 2005. Pat did very well, thanks to you. 4th place in a field of eleven, vying for three seats. We’ll need your help again in 2007. Right now, we are refocusing our efforts on the issue Pat has championed for five years: Save Civic Park. Please contact us to help with the petition drive to get this issue on the November ballot for voters to consider. Our grassroots are firmly planted in this community. We formed the Committee to Elect Pat Duff because the time is right for fresh new voices in Covina politics and she finally agreed to step up formally. If you’re tired of the same old politics, this is the candidate you’ve been waiting for. Pat was raised in Covina and she knows what’s really important to people who live and do business here. They’ve surveyed us and we’ve spoken. While some areas of Covina continue to look very good, many of our residential streets and alleys are in poor repair. We want all of our sidewalks and streets maintained properly. We want sewer and water systems to keep up with planned growth. We want adequate city staff to make careful planning decisions about smart, energy-efficient building. We want fair and equitable code enforcement that focuses on neighborhood improvement. We want utility tax money invested as promised or ended as planned. We want all our tax dollars to make a difference citywide, not just downtown. We insist that council representatives encourage civic engagement and understand the duty of public trust. |
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Pat is a strong, independent voice. She’s a creative thinker, she knows what Covina voters expect, and she understands what makes good neighborhoods. She’s well equipped for the job. She’s a small business owner who knows that public and private investment in community improvement is what attracts good new businesses. Every Tuesday night at City Council and Planning Commission meetings, Pat’s there, paying attention. She spends several hours every week downloading and reading the documents on every matter that comes before those bodies. She listens carefully and actively and she comes prepared each week, giving voice to your concerns and hers. She is experienced at building support for citizens’ priorities. She’s been a strong voice for open, responsive government. She has proven herself to be undaunted by political resistance and shown a strong capacity to directly sustain the important principles of local democracy. Pat listens to people and treats them with compassion and respect. People who know her appreciate her refreshingly direct approach. She is an avid reader and a prolific writer. She contributes frequently to the discussion board at www.Covina.com, to stimulate and encourage public dialogue on the issues we are facing together as citizens and neighbors. This is exactly the sort of thinking we need from our city leaders in the coming decades. We want elected representatives who will pay attention and vote in support of our priorities for Covina’s future. We are stakeholders. It’s not enough to rely solely on the opinions of ambitious, unelected upper management employees ambitious to leave their mark a town that they don’t have to live in. Our quality of life and our city’s solvency are at stake. Over the last several years, Pat has invested in her own library of the major planning documents of Covina’s public policy, and she’s read them. She is already familiar with our General Plan, Municipal Code, Redevelopment Plans, and Design Guidelines as well as the Master and Specific Plans for Downtown, Library, Parks System, Cultural Arts, Historic Preservation, Sewer System, Street Trees, and Capital Improvements. She has spoken articulately on the public record many times, on a wide variety of issues of concern to the citizens of Covina. Pat doesn’t hesitate to volunteer her time and skills where the need is highest. She is fiscally conservative and socially progressive. Her focused positions on sustainable economic development, safer streets and neighborhoods, community forestry, library modernization, strengthening of physical and digital infrastructure, conservation of natural resources, and cultural arts have earned her two City Council appointments. She now serves in an advisory role to the Council as a valuable team member on both our Housing and Community Development Advisory Commission and our Historic Preservation Board. Pat Duff is affectionately known around town as Covina’s Tree Lady. She knows how to think globally and act locally and her actions speak volumes. She believes strongly in the importance of keeping and enhancing the public parks system. She’s the city’s most constant voice for not chipping away at our natural heritage to benefit apartment developers. We can foster great ideas for our future without sacrificing all the landmark investments of our community’s past. We can create a more vibrant city economy without giving up the small-town feel and without selling off our parks. Pat’s a certified arborist and a trained community forest inspector. She’s committed her own life to public service, working to build a higher quality habitat for living. She’s often the first to identify high-risk city trees for removal and replacement. She’s also one of a growing body of Covinans who quietly erase graffiti when and where they find it. She was instrumental in restoring and keeping Covina’s Tree City status with the National Arbor Day Foundation. She has organized Arbor Day Celebrations at schools throughout the school district; planting over 400 trees so far with kids, families, and groups citywide. Her good ideas and consistent advocacy helped secure $65K in unallocated Community Block Grant Fund monies (which might otherwise have been forfeited) to plant trees in Prospero Park and other underserved areas of the community. Pat also writes frequently for the Covina Valley Historical Society’s quarterly newsletter and serves officially on their board of directors as Recording Secretary. She fills a similar need for the Inter-County Garden Club at the Joslyn Center. She’s a member and believes strongly in the core principles of the Covina Woman’s Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Friendship Garden Club, and the National Arbor Day Society. She’s been a notary public for many years, rarely charging for that vital public service. She’s determined to preserve and build a better, more prosperous future for us. We can’t imagine a more dedicated leader, and we warmly urge you to support Pat Duff. Let’s work together to spread the word and elect officials to represent what Covina citizens want.
Most Sincerely, Committee to Elect Pat Duff |
