Online Voters' Pamphlet
November 2004 General Election

SHIRLEY R. CRADDICK

OCCUPATION: Registered Dietitian; Motivational Interviewing consultant; Author; Health Behavior Researcher, retired

OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Health Researcher, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, 32 years; Involved in designing, planning, and implementing behavioral clinical trials; Author/co-author of scientific articles and books regarding the relationship of diet and cardiovascular disease; Past President, Oregon Dietetic Association and Portland Dietetic Association

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.Sc., Dietetics and Institution Management, Oregon State University; R.D., Registered Dietitian, Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio; M.H.A., Masters in Health Administration, University of Southern California

PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: City of Gresham: Springwater Community Working Group; Regional: Johnson Creek Watershed Land-use Committee; National: National Institutes of Health, appointed to four Clinical Trial Intervention Design Committees

As your Councilor Shirley will:

Lead the city to maturity by

Developing a vision that prepares the city for growth

Supporting the development of a cultural arts center

Creating a feeling of pride that we live and work in Gresham

Work to improve the city’s financial stability by

• Setting spending priorities and replenishing reserves to support infrastructure
• Finding a source of funding for the fire department to ensure safety
• Working with other east county cities to identify efficiency opportunities

Increase livability while promoting economic development by

• Exploring and initiating a land-use vision that targets both land to develop and land to save for open space or parks
• Attracting quality and viable businesses through the combination of financial stability, balanced growth and a land-use vision
• Supporting the upgrade and development of parks

Encourage and increase citizen involvement

• Citizens are critical to the city’s direction, health, and viability
• Citizens help the City Councilor’s stay in touch with the communities needs and concerns, while promoting creativity
• Elected officials need to both lead and listen

CYNTHIA HOPKINS

OCCUPATION: Bookkeeper – United Brokers, Portland and a Small Business Owner, Hopkins Associates Inc.

OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Accounting Assistant, LRS Architects: Third Party Billing, KinderCare Corporate Office: Bookkeeper, Horenstein & Duggan P.S.; Accounts Payable, ZGF Architects

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Accounting & Word Processing Mt Hood C.C., Northwest College of Business, Gresham High

PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: City of Gresham Planning Commission, Transportation System Advisory Committee, Council Police Advisory Committee, Growth Management Committee

Cindy wants what you want!

She wants a safe environment for residents and business, Gresham to be a place to live, work, play and funding for Fire and Police. In particular, she wants:

• Rockwood to once again became a safe and enjoyable place to raise a family and provide profitable business opportunities
  
• Continued support for our Fire and Police by establishing stable long-term funding
  
• Family wage jobs in Gresham
  
• Fiscal accountability in all departments of the city
  
• Citizen involvement at all levels of the city government
  
• Political leaders to listen to its citizens
  
• Improved north-south access
  
• Safe and gang free neighborhoods
  

R.H. (BOB) PUNG, SR.

OCCUPATION: Advocate for Elderly and Disabled People

OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Superintendent of Maintenance at a hospital; TV & Appliance repairman; Small business owner; Over-the-road truck driver; Welder.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Devils Lake Junior College; North Dakota School of Science; Job Corps (TV & Appliance Repair & G.E.D.)

PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: City of Gresham Transportation Advisory Committee (5 years); Central City Neighborhood Association (NA), President (4 years); Multnomah County Budget Committee for the District Attorneys’ Office (1995-present chairperson); Multnomah County Community Corrections Board (1993-1996); Oregon State Supreme Court Appointment to Citizens’ Review Board (1992-1995); Disability Advisory Council (Clatsop & Multnomah Counties); Special Needs Transportation Funds Chairman (TriMet, 1994-1988). Since 1988, many other boards, commissions & committees and National, State and local levels.

Bob Pung believes that:

• Public Safety is the top priority when considering expenditures of the city’s limited revenue.
• Parks maintenance and development must be improved.
• Your ideas are important and should be considered.
• That existing city codes should be rigorously enforced.
• Elimination of gang activities is essential.
• Greater consideration of the consequences of growth is required.
• Traffic increase needs to be given greater consideration when contemplating city’s growth.
• Family-wage jobs should be acquired to enhance livability.
• Increasing franchise fees (the hidden taxes) must be curtailed.
• Cost containments must be considered in budget development.

Bob is endorsed by many including:

Lonnie Roberts, Multnomah County Commissioner;
Sharron Kelley, Former Multnomah County Commissioner;
Paul Thalhofer, Mayor of Troutdale;
Clint Holly, Vice President Central City N.A.
Rebecca Heuston, N.A. Activist;
Mary Martin, Real Estate Broker
Walt Pilot, former MHCC part-time instructor

FOR THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF EXPERIENCE
AND PROVEN SUCCESS, VOTE FOR BOB PUNG.