Great coverage for Pauline Cutter for Mayor of San Leandro in the San Leandro Times! Councilwoman Cutter Seeks Mayoral Seat San Leandro Times, July 31, 2014 By Amy Sylvestri Campaign season is up and running, with three candidates so far in the race for mayor – current City Councilwomen Diana Souza and Pauline Cutter, and businessman Dan Dillman. From now until the November 4 election, we will be taking a look at the mayoral candidates as well as those seeking office on the City Council for Districts 1, 3 and 5, and the San Leandro School Board for Areas 2, 4, 6, and the At-Large seat. This week, Pauline Cutter talks about why she should be mayor. Cutter has served the city in one capacity or another for nearly 20 years, with three terms on the San Leandro school board and one as the District 5 City Councilwoman. She says that it is that experience which puts her above her fellow candidates. “I have a history of public service and how I vote and how I think reflects the public I represent,” said Cutter. “And during all that time, I’ve met so many people, created so many relationships. I have an ability to be collaborative.” While on the school board, Cutter was one of the trustees who oversaw the $109-million Measure B bond which paid for the ninth-grade campus as well as the high school arts center, among other projects. And while on the City Council, she says she spearheaded the vote to have all council members pay their share into their pension funds – a practice that was later carried over to all city employees. “I believe in leading by example. There was a domino effect (with the pensions) that was important to the fiscal health of city,” said Cutter. Cutter worked as a teacher for 23 years and currently works as an energy consultant for the San Leandro school district, but says she’ll quit that job if elected because the city needs a full-time mayor. It was time constraints, in part, that led current Mayor Stephen Cassidy, a lawyer, to not seek re-election. Cassidy has lent his endorsement to Cutter. Cutter supports the extension and increase of the Measure Z, the sales tax that was originally one-quarter percent and set to end in 2018, but which is now being put on the ballot in November as one-half cent and set to expire in 30 years. If the tax does not pass this year, Cutter said she’d continue to put it in future ballots. “I don’t believe in waiting for grant money to fund important things,” said Cutter. “We would work to fund a way to make it (the tax) palatable for voters. But I believe it will pass this year because the community realizes that we’ve used the money well in the past and can trust us to use it wisely in the future.” If elected, Cutter says she’ll prioritize the city’s current trend of attracting tech business, focus on public safety, and work to collaborate with both the San Leandro and San Lorenzo school districts. She said she’d also like to find a way to support more activities for the city’s younger generations – such as entertainment in the industrial area, “There are little changes that could be made that could really help quality of life in our community, said Cutter. I want San Leandro to be the place that my kids and their generation want to come back and live, and raise a family.”
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:08:08 +0000
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