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Bill McCrone has demonstrated the leadership, experience and problem-solving skills to move our great and historic city forward in challenging times:

• Planning commissioner, 8 years
• Parks & Recreation Commissioner, 10 years
• NIP committee, 2 years
• Monterey Attorney and resident, 30 years

McCrone Family • Father of three children, aged 13, 17 and 21, who all attend(ed) Monterey Public schools.
• Board of Directors - Old Monterey Business Association, 7 years
• President of Family Resource Center, 3 years
• Chairman Cub Scout Pack 38, 3 years
• Manager, Pony Youth Baseball, 6 years
• Combat Veteran - Vietnam (3 Bronze Stars)
• U.S. Army Ranger / Army Engineer, 3 years
• West Point graduate (1968)

Bill McCrone for Monterey City Council... with Bill McCrone you get Solutions... not talk.

Challenges

We face many challenges to the quality of our lives in the immediate future. We cannot afford to remain immobile, wringing our hands at the economy and the State raids on our treasury. An active City Council must move forward with solutions for the future. It requires understanding and imagination, and the leadership to build a consensus among the neighborhoods and the business community.

Solutions

I believe I have the ability and experience to help meet these challenges, and make things happen now, not four years from now. I propose that we begin working on these specific solutions now:

• Budget: I support the sales tax increase. We have cut essential services, such as the downtown police patrol, school resource officers, and heritage city programs, too far. We can all afford a quarter per $100.00 to maintain the services which are so important to our residents.

• Heritage Endowment: We should protect our Heritage programs such as the 4th of July parade, party and fireworks, La Posada, and the Easter Egg Hunt, from the vagaries of the general fund budget process. The City should sponsor (and staff) an Endowment Fund to solicit grants and charitable contributions, with the end that these and other core programs are never threatened again. Read More...

• Work Force Housing: It is past time to get serious about creating more affordable housing. As long as our teachers, police and our adult children cannot afford to live within our city limits, our quality of life deteriorates. Density bonuses in areas already zoned commercial, and without view impacts, are low-cost initiative and should be enacted by the Council. Read More...

Monterey Traffic • Traffic: Traffic improvements to finish the Window on the Bay (near the tunnel) are at a standstill while traffic worsens. Completion of planned Cannery Row developments are vital to the City's economic health. We must finalize plans for Waterfront traffic, and find a way to finance them. Read More...

• Schools: The City should organize recreational programming to provide for after school enrichment (e.g. Spanish, Arts and intramurals) at our neighborhood schools. Read More...

• Base Realignment (Updated September 3, 2004): We must maintain the highest priority to retain our military installations, while working with the Presidio to obtain joint reuse of our recreation fields and to provide another exit from New Monterey through the Presidio. Read More...

• Downtown (Updated September 3, 2004): The City's Safeway lease is up for renewal, and we must take advantage of this one-time opportunity to enhance downtown parking, appearance and continuity. Current negotiations must not renew a lease that is not in the best interest of Monterey. Read More...