Q1) If you are elected, what are the three most important environmental issues that you plan to work on and why?

I am an activist; and after I am elected I plan on moving the agenda. I will not take lightly being at the bottom of a 4-1 decision affecting our environment and the interests of the West County. Of course I will try to educate the other supervisors but if they are not going to be part of a consensus toward a sustainable future I will participate with active measures to change things including supporting lawsuits, other candidates of like mind to replace them and taking it to the people. I think West County needs a strong voice with demonstrated vision and leadership who will forward a progressive agenda for the environment, for a new economic reality and for reforms of government services and resources. The Fifth District Supervisor needs to be a leader toward progressive change and a sustainable future.

Important issues for me with respect to the environment will be continuing efforts toward resolving water and wastewater issues affecting ourselves and our environment. For me this entails conservation, reclamation and restoration. We need to continue on the path with creative and innovative ways to use less water, re-use wastewater through the geysers geothermal and ag-irrigation (addressing concerns with trace pharmaceuticals and heavy metals) and restore the Laguna de Santa Rosa, the Russian River and the myriad creeks, streams and waterways throughout our watershed. A big part of restoration is to reduce the non-point source pollution and the erosion and sedimentation due to poor ag practices. Let's get the cows out of the Laguna!#@$^%@#%$^!!!

I am presenting detailed solutions to problems with wastewater in the West County with respect to Occidental, Camp Meeker, Monte Rio, Guerneville and Forestville. I have found willing landowners who could provide 100's of acres of additional land for local small scale solutions including irrigating redwoods with wastewater. I have many years experience with innovative aerobic septic systems, grey water reuse and wastewater issues. Through my activism and involvement with Sonoma County wastewater issues I know most of the stakeholders and am able to communicate in a strong manner toward resolving problems.

As a six year member and two time chair of Russian River Redevelopment I have shepherded thousands of dollars of redevelopment funds to help fight the Sonoma County Water Agencies plans to reduce flows in the Russian River through increased diversions. Redevelopment has given thousands of dollars to help Don McEnhill of Riverkeeper with his efforts to protect the River and create an exemplary Riverkeeper Park to educate people how we can restore our watershed. We have funded Ecoring with Portia Sinnott and Toni Tacoma working hard on West County Ecotourism toward creating sustainable economic opportunities for local jobs. I serve on the Sonoma County Economic Development Board encouraging sustainable business practices and ecotourism. I am also working on a woodstove change out fund to reduce the problems with air pollution through non-EPA fireplaces and woodstoves in some of the valleys along the Russian River.

Good local affordable housing is another important issue for me. I am involved with countywide efforts to change the general plan to allow for some creative and innovative solutions toward housing. We are seeing the best and the brightest among our 19-39 year old families leaving Sonoma County for greener pastures as they cannot find affordable housing. There are actually fewer registered voters in Fifth District than there were in 1996. Is affordable housing an environmental issue? Of course it is...part of smart growth and smart transportation involves creating affordable city centered live/work dwellings close to mass transit. We need to create affordable housing in our communities for the people who work in our communities. There are virtually no rentals in Bodega Bay and Occidental for the people who work there. It is not ecological to have the people who work in your community commuting from afar to get there. I am participating with reforms in the general plan for second dwelling units, SRO's (single room occupancy), and co-housing experiments with large "McMansions" (i.e. tribal living).

Another issue that Sonoma County is leading the way with is trying to exemplify the changes we need to make to reduce GHG green house gases in order to prevent global warming. To me #1 is conservation. I remember during the oil embargo in the 80's when the Harvard Business School came out with a study called "Energy Future" (I think I still have the book in my garage somewhere). Basically their thesis said that just through conservation we could greatly reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. I think one of the great issues of our day in order to survive is we have to take the prospect of global warming seriously. We need to reduce our energy consumption, we need to develop more benign sources of energy i.e. solar & wind and we need to develop bio-fuels. I support the efforts of the Post Carbon Institute, the Sonoma County Climate Protection Campaign, and Lite-Initiatives.

As a supervisor I would support county funds toward many environmental efforts. I would like to see more county resources going to non-profits and volunteer organizations. A great example of volunteerism is the massive efforts toward restoration of Atascadero Green Valley Creek overseen by the Community Clean Water Institute. With $120,000 of contributions and 1000’s of hours of volunteer’s time they made great progress enhancing a degraded waterway for anadromous fish migration.

Q2) Do you feel that any of the areas in West County, such as Forestville or Guerneville, should ever incorporate?

Ya know I have gone back and forth on this issue for many years with respect to "incorporation". I think it doesn't pencil; i.e. we get more bang for the buck under the benevolent dictatorship of the County than if we started one more bureaucracy. One thing I do support and will advocate are small CSD’s Community Service Districts. There is very little money anymore toward local needs with respect to roads, infrastructure, public safety and environmental restoration. I think there are many areas where neighborhoods would support small tithes of increased property taxes provided they could see and quantify the results in front of them. I will be providing more detailed position and examples of this in the future.

Q3) What would your policies be dealing with Sonoma County’s solid waste? What are your thoughts on the practicality of achieving zero waste?

I do not like seeing us hauling our problems with solid waste out of the County; out of sight out of mind. Let’s have someone else worry about our solid waste problems because we won’t deal with it here. I support sustainable local policies that deal with our problems on a local level without allowing others to export their problems here nor for us to export our problems there.

That said I think zero waste should be a star we aspire toward. We move toward this goal through encouraging a reduction in the waste stream and increasing recycling. Not just glass, plastic and metal but organic as well. We should experiment with taking organic waste rather than burying it in a landfill bio-digesting it to create methane (like they do in landfills but more efficiently) and then taking the composted organic material and putting it on forests and fodder crops rather than burying it in landfills.

Q4) What would you do to meet the County’s greenhouse gas reduction goals?

Very ambitious plan, 25% by 2015; who could disagree with such a worthy goal? Again a star we aspire toward…nothing wrong with building castles in the sky provided we work toward putting foundations under them. I think $4.00+ per gallon of gasoline will help. Contrary to the skepticism greeting Al Gore’s purchase of carbon offsets to reduce his carbon emissions I think it is a great idea but let’s create local opportunities to offset the emissions…i.e. reductions of methane and nitrous oxides from agriculture; education and encouragement of lifestyle changes like fewer airline trips (most people don’t realize that one round trip air plane ride to Hawaii contributes as much to global warming as your combined household and automobile emissions…this from the Climate Protection Campaign).

A big reducer as mentioned above is conservation. Also if done in the proper way wood heat (I’m thinking pellets so we don’t contribute to air pollution) can reduce the carbon footprint from burning fossil fuels as long as we match the harvest of wood with new growth. Maybe we do some sort of carbon offset locally where we create jobs palletizing oaks lost to SOD sudden oak death syndrome and replant other native trees resistant to SOD…maybe give pellets to lower income and senior households with subsidized pellet stoves retrofit in their homes and rentals.

There should be some sort of grand overseer group utilizing many creative and innovative ideas with incentives and disincentives (carrot and stick…good cop bad cop). We could underwrite the whole thing with concerned volunteers and student staff with the equivalent of one County staff position (approx average of $110,000/year). We could never afford to staff this effort with county workers but with volunteers just like the restoration of Atascadero Green Valley Creek we could leverage to a great extent our county resources toward achieving the above goal.

Q5) What is your position on gravel mining adjacent to the Russian River? Do you support dredging of the River or the Laguna? Please explain.

I am opposed to gravel mining adjacent to the Russian River. There has been way too much gravel mining impacting the flow of water through the aquifers and undermining the banks of the River. At the same time the solution toward providing the aggregate we need for rail beds, affordable housing and bike trails should not be barged in from Canada or by rail from the Sierra’s. Part of the aggregate plan is increased hard rock mining to get out of the River and we need to do this in an environmentally sustainable manner without overburdening one small community with 100’s of trucks a day compromising their quality of life.

The conditions with a lower gradient river with a lot of sediments is different over the conditions whereby NOAA has approved award winning environmental gravel mining in Austin Creek by Homer and Tim Canelis and different from what the planning commission approved for mining in the Gualala River. I am not so doctrinaire and dogmatic as to say no to gravel mining in streams as part of restoring habitat; but any of these measures need to be done through a well thought out plan developed with a clear consensus of biologists and stakeholders.

Q6) How are you a viable candidate?

I have lived in West County for over 28 years. I am a battle hardened veteran of some of the most historic environmental struggles in the history of Sonoma County. Through my involvement with environmental causes, Russian River Redevelopment and the Sonoma County Economic Development Board I have demonstrated the courage, vision and leadership skills to represent and forward the progressive agenda. I have been involved with restoration, reclamation, education, protests and political struggles, heady victories and sad failures. I know full well what it means when we say,” Every victory for the environment is temporary, every defeat is permanent.”

Through my experiences with theater (…always the character actor never the romantic lead ;0) and activism I have a broad array of tools toward being part of creating a sustainable future. As a builder (green when my client accepts my advice) and project manager I have managed multiple multi-million dollar projects with 100’s of workers under myriad subcontractors, architects, engineers and designers. I have a great deal of experience as a conductor, choreographer and director of great efforts. The West County is filled with a boisterous bunch who I can identify with and work with in many ways.

I have a broader agenda as well that I would like to see some reforms with salary and benefits at the County that would restore some of the cuts to mental health services, social programs, infrastructure and environmental restoration. Though I am the youngest of the candidates thus far (50) that should not be held against me…I do have the experience necessary in order to evolve into the leader I feel we need ;0).

Q7) Do you have a consultant?

I do not have a consultant yet. I am loathe to hire the ones I have talked to thus far; let alone pay them the money they want! In particular I am being cautioned to not say what I think, don’t tell people what my positions on the issues are, be non-committal, non-judgmental. Cater to the lowest common denominator voter like a Lite-beer commercial so as to offend the fewest. Ostrich head in the sand government that only furthers the demise of our environment and our society.

I feel like the Cat Stevens song “I Can’t Keep it In”…it is not my style to not tell people what I think about the issues. My daddy said,” Give me the devil I know” I am going to be honest with people about how I feel about the issues and I am going to raise the bar and challenge the other candidates to do the same. If you look at most political campaign websites most of them do not really come out with anything substantive about the issues we face. This is the advice of consultants far and wide. They may be right…I think they’re wrong; I think people want to know what the positions are of the candidates for Supervisor.

Q8) How are you going to win your election bid?

Thus far I have raised about $13000 from a couple hundred donors mainly from West County. I think my biggest donation is about $600…average donation is about $100. I am meeting with different groups and individuals continuing to build the foundation of our campaign and getting lots of encouragement on a grass roots level. I don’t think money will play the part it does in other districts; I think West County voters are savvy and will judge candidates on their experience and positions.

I tell people it’s going to be a “Survivors” episode. There will probably be 7-10 candidates running and I believe I will be one of the top two vote getters so I am hoping to get endorsements from the other candidates therefore I don’t want to upset them. Of course my political science classes in college would say you have to move to the left to capture the primary and move to the right to win the general election. I’m afraid I’m going to be viewed as one of those would be politico’s who goes so far to the left he ends up on the right ;0).
Of course we’re all wondering how the vote will split and who else is going to run and how that will work…it’s fun; that’s what makes America great. Anyway I look forward to it.

Thank you Craig for the questions and I look forward to meeting with the board in the near future.

Tom Lynch


Sierra Club Sonoma Group Candidate Questionnaire

2008 Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Election

Question 1. Basis for candidacy. Please describe the reasons you decided to run and what your qualifications are.

I have had political aspirations since third grade and have always embraced and enjoyed being part of making the world better for my family, my community and beyond. I have been a leader in Western Sonoma County for over 28 years; joining efforts to protect our environment, involved with the arts and theatre, trying to enhance economic opportunities and reform government services. I see a difficult time ahead for our society and I am excited at being part of a new vision to reinvent Sonoma County.

Question 2. If elected to the Board of Supervisors, what will be your priorities?

The measure of all our challenges with respect to the environment, the economy and government services is sustainability. To me we need to develop a new vision, a new paradigm… together toward a sustainable future. There are lots of ideas that are include in detail on our website at www.TomLynch4Supervisor.com ; we’re trying to raise the bar and encourage all candidates to share their ideas and proposed solutions.

Question 3. Please tell us of your past civic and/or personal actions that demonstrate your involvement and support for environmental protection.

I have spent over twentyfive years involved in efforts to protect the Laguna de Santa Rosa and the Russian River including being arrested once for “illegal dumping” in Santa Rosa (long story). As an elected member of the Russian River Redevelopment Oversight Committee we have supported and sponsored redevelopment funds to Russian Riverkeeper toward a demonstration riparian park and stopping the Sonoma County Water Agencies efforts to increase diversions from the River (over $150,000), we’ve supported Portia Sinnot with Lite Initiatives with a $100,000+ grant for Ecotourism. We’ve authorized funds toward change out of non-EPA woodstoves to improve air quality. As one of Supervisor Reilly’s appointees to the Sonoma County Economic Development Board I have encouraged the having a sustainable ethic with the environment.

Question 4.

(1)What Sonoma County natural resources/systems do you consider in need of protection?
Water, wastewater, air quality, global warming, transportation, riparian buffers, new economy, and reform of government services. The environment includes the interrelationship of ecology, economy and efficient use of our community resources leveraged to best advantage.

(2)What environmental issues would you become actively involved with once elected?

All of the above just mentioned. I would encourage a “comprehensive water and wastewater management plan” that works to resolve problems. Air quality in some of our West County valleys needs to be addressed; on “spare the air days” I think some of our villages rival Beijing’s air pollution with the smoke from non-epa woodstoves. I would like to see more County resource going to non-profits, volunteer and faith based groups, out source to private businesses where competitive, and enlist environmental groups to help facilitate a shift toward more sustainable practices.

(3)What activities would you undertake to ensure that these goals are accomplished?

I would like to do the proverbial hit the ground running with numerous proposals to reform the system and support good works. One of my thoughts is Supervisors are so lacking with staff resources I might try to set up a 501c3 non-profit of volunteer ombudsmen/ombudspersons… problem solvers that help others with their efforts and good works. I tell people I have a track record of demonstrated leadership and that I am an activist…I intend to go in there and move the agenda.

Question 5. Sierra Club's Sonoma Group and Redwood Chapter are concerned about conversion of forest land to vineyards. The county will be considering a very large development of this kind, called Preservation Ranch, in the coming year. Please comment on this and similar future proposals.

It sucks…I do not like the current compromise accepted by the Sierra Club even if it’s probably the political reality. Any proposals must be strictly monitored and shaped to best advantage. I think the Sierra Club’s Jay Halcomb has done a great job with this issue. I have followed his efforts and look forward to meeting and listening to him. I share concerns of increased vineyards and impacts through conversion of timber reserves. Years ago we welcomed more vineyards thinking this was a great way to preserve open space and limit sprawl; now it’s kind of like be careful what you ask for cause you might get it.

I am a hobbyist winemaker myself (approx. two tons/year with three partners) and I appreciate the positive contributions associated with grape growing and winemaking in Sonoma County. But we must address issues of poor husbandry that degrades the commons with overdraft of groundwater, chemicals, sedimentation, nutrient loads, loss of riparian and habitat. Agriculture should be encouraged as long as they do not compromise the environment…this is common sense and common law.

Question 6. How do you think that Sonoma County can ensure a reliable and clean water supply for county residents without jeopardizing water available for the natural environment, including endangered species?

The old mantra “conservation, reuse, and reclamation…” to which I would add restoration. We’re not going to solve our problems with water by building a $500 million dollar 8’ diameter pipe from Lake Sonoma to the River. I am one of those battle hardened veterans of the struggle to increase reclamation in Sonoma County and reduce discharges of wastewater into the River as well as to reduce diversions. We need to resolve concerns with trace pharmaceuticals, household and industrial chemicals, and nutrients from wastewater irrigation. I support increased water to the Geysers if need be but part of the solution is local irrigation to supplant the use of potable ground and surface water and to reduce impoundments that prevent natural water flow in our streams.

There may be technological fixes in the future as we see reductions in cost of reverse osmosis to purify water. It is much cheaper to purify wastewater (as low as $600/acre foot) than seawater ($3000/acre foot); presently the Sonoma County Water Agency charges $400/acre foot for potable water.

Question 7. Please comment on the Sonoma County Water Agency’s proposal to build an extensive reclaimed wastewater delivery system throughout the county.

If this were done right after resolving some of the above concerns I think irrigating with reclaimed wastewater is a great way to reduce the diversions of potable water and impounded natural runoff. Whatever the solution is the economics must be part of the solution; we can’t expect to bankrupt the homeowners in West County with unfunded schemes to pipe water from 200 households in Camp Meeker to 1200 acres of vineyards near Forestville. I do not support some Rube Goldberg collection of treatment and pipes with the water going outside of our watershed…I prefer local solutions near the villages with problems. I would like to see an onsite septic management district with some sort of STEP (septic tank effluent pumping) system where necessary with community irrigation of forest and fodder crops for Camp Meeker, Monte Rio and other areas with problems.

Question 8.
(1)What actions will you take to address the challenges of climate change?

As the price of oil rises the opportunities toward affordable alternatives to fossil fuels rises as well. One of the biggest deterrents enabling us to reduce emissions of green house gases has been artificially low oil prices. If we were to add to the true cost of oil by including the price of “defense” and foreign intervention, global warming, and pollution to the environment the price would be off the charts. There are huge additional losses that we can’t quantify such as loss of life, happiness, and demise of a spirit to protect our planet.

Sonoma County has made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases 25% by 2015. For some this may be an empty gesture to make people happy; I believe we can and must meet these goals. Reducing our dependence on fossil fuels is an opportunity to protect our environment, save money and create jobs in Sonoma County. Let’s revitalize our local economy by reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
First and foremost we need to conserve. We need to go door to door encouraging people to save money by insulating and weather-stripping their homes. We need to educate people on all the myriad ways they can save money and save the planet through simple lifestyle changes. Safer bicycle paths, carpooling, better planned car trips to school and shopping, reduced air travel, less consumptive lifestyles, natural, florescent and LED lighting, space heating over central heating, wear a sweater and more.

Through tax incentives and volunteerism we need to develop alternatives to fossil fuels through home based photovoltaic electricity, solar hot water, passive solar home design, and biomass heating with wood pellets and EPA approved woodstoves. Perhaps we can create some sort of local wood pelletizing cooperative that can even utilize dead oaks from SOD (Sudden Oak Death). Cornell University is presently experimenting with great success pelletizing grasses and leaves (http://www.grassbioenergy.org). Properly managed bio-mass heating does not add to green house gases. Our public and commercial buildings should fully utilize all these options as well.

Further we should encourage the continuing development of methane from organic sources. Presently the County landfill generates enough electricity through burning methane to power the entire town of Windsor. We should also encourage the production of methane from dairy and agriculture as well as household organic material incorporated into a zero waste strategy. Methane is 21 times the greenhouse gas that carbon dioxide is. More effort needs to be made in this direction. Along these lines we should also encourage the development of ethanol and cellulosic fuels; but not from corn (very problematic practice).

We need to work toward making broadband internet available to every household in Sonoma County just as ubiquitous as phone service is presently. We need to work toward improving cell phone reception for all providers throughout Sonoma County as well. Part of developing a “new economy” is to encourage and embrace communication technology that helps more and more people work out of their homes within the virtual economy fostering home based cottage industries. The more of us working out of our homes reduces the emissions from commuting cars and additional workspaces. There needs to be more effort to address concerns with EMF (electric magnetic fields) and RF (radio frequency).

Another way to decrease our greenhouse gases is a little bit controversial but I think it could prove very effective. If you note our website my family has purchased “carbon offset’s” to offset our household and automobile’s carbon output. Al Gore does the same to offset the green house gases from his private jet and his $2400 home electric bill. We have purchased through the recommendation of the Environmental Defense Fund carbon offsets from the http://www.carbonfund.org/ “Reduce what you can, Offset what you can’t.”

Our choice is an outfit that collects manure from Dairies in the San Joaquin Valley and re-use’s the methane to produce electricity to desalinate brackish water. We need an entire panoply of local carbon offset programs in Sonoma County. (p.s. If anyone could design a diaper for cows not only could we reduce methane in the atmosphere but too much nutrient in our watersheds)

Lastly we should sub-contract services from a number of well respected environmental groups to oversee the volunteer efforts toward our 25% by 2015 goals. This is a huge effort and undertaking. To have County staff coordinating this goal is too expensive. The best paid worker is a volunteer. We need to decrease our dependence on government and increase our use of volunteers and non-profits. We cannot afford to do otherwise. Let’s leverage our tax dollars to greatest affect by joining existing efforts toward our goals.

(2)What can we do in Sonoma County in areas like transportation, land use, building efficiency and renewable energy generation?

All of the above and then some. In particular with land use I certainly agree that in-fill and smart growth in city centers is good; hopefully we can find buyers. But in our rural areas we need to do something about affordable housing to reverse the trend of gentrification where older wealthier buyers are driving younger families and workers out of our communities. There are some interesting demographic and commute patterns at play in West County with schools closing, lack of volunteers for fire services, and large amounts of commuting coming from afar to work in Sebastopol, Forestville, Occidental, Bodega Bay and beyond. In order to reduce this loss of youth and workers in our communities we need to create more affordable housing opportunities locally.

(3)What do you think the impact of changing weather patterns will be on our county?

Change is coming…let’s hope it’s wetter (without the high winds thank you very much ;0), not dryer. Let’s expect the worst by planning for dryer with wise use of our water resources leaving enough to look after those creatures we share the County with.

Question 9. Please comment on the Santa Rosa Plain Conservation Strategy for the CA Tiger Salamander and listed plants, and the current process to develop an implementation plan for the county and cities.

I remember the bumpersticker “Dream back the bison, Sing back the swan”; I appreciate the saying “every victory for the environment is temporary, every defeat is permanent”. The hubris in the past where we allowed the extinction of plant and animal species continues but hopefully not here. We must work to increase the habitat and the numbers of these beings that we share the planet with.

They are the miner’s canary, an indicator species that attests to the health of the Laguna and the vernal pools of central Sonoma County. If we were to allow them to become extinct what is the fate of the rest of the environment we need for our own survival? Our spirit would be diminished by our lack of empathy for the natural world and ourselves. I support working to restore the Laguna and protect endangered species.

Question 10. How can we introduce more multimodal transportation into the unincorporated areas of the county? Do you support the SMART train?

More and safer trails and bike paths with community efforts to encourage people to walk and ride bicycles for fun and errands…including using bicycle carts for shopping. One of our problems in West County are a number of poor roads with no shoulders and blind curves; maybe we could put flashing warning signs on these stretches of roads that can be activated by bicyclists while they enter; warning cars there are bicycles ahead. We need more efforts to educate automobile drivers to share the road with their fellow travelers.

Could we increase the frequency of bus services by reducing the size of the buses? Could we utilize volunteers to spend a day a week operating buses/shuttles or make this part of a requirement for those doing “community service” as part of their court sentence or work fare requirement? Let’s encourage and listen to creative and innovative ideas from members of our community on how to reduce the cost and increase the frequency of bus services, bicycles, walking and skateboarding (…shaka dude).

Question 11. Please identify core constituencies and community leaders you expect will support you. How do you plan to fund your campaign?

I have a list of several hundred supporters on our website and that list is growing. I don’t have the large numbers of outside district endorsements from individuals that other candidates have but I think I have more voter’s names from inside the fifth district listed. A couple of the candidates have called in their markers with political IOU’s within their circles but I don’t think this matters. Ultimately the race hinges on who the voters believe have the best ideas along with the mojo to carry them out.

We’re going after the rank and file inside the district with a strong message of reforms that will help create a more sustainable future for the County with the environment, the economy and a better allocation of our tax dollars and government resources. My core constituencies would certainly include those most concerned for the environment but I’m hoping to get a lot of votes from people wanting to see more job opportunities, affordable housing and changes in the way the County provides government services.
Thus far we’ve raised about $13,000 from more than a hundred local supporters. As the message gets out; more and more donations are coming in. I don’t think anyone can buy the Fifth District with a lot of big money from out of the district or out of their own deep pockets. The voters are too savy.

Question 12. Why is a Sierra Club endorsement important to you? If we endorse you, what are the most effective ways we can help you get elected?

I think an endorsement from the Sierra Club would be an acknowledgement of my past and present work to protect and enhance our environment. It would be part of a message to the voters to look seriously at our campaign and get involved. The most effective way to help me would be to get the word out to the membership to Help Tom Get Elected ;0)!!

Personally I have encouraged other environmental groups not to endorse an individual candidate in the Fifth District. The field is well represented with many choices; all of whom have made good contributions to the environment. Let us sort things out ourselves and concentrate our energies on getting a progressive elected in the Third District of Santa Rosa; I have endorsed and donated to Rohnert Park City Councilman Tim Smith.

Please include biographical information, applicable campaign literature
and other information helpful in evaluating your candidacy.

I am a 50 year old (8/4/57) husband, father, businessman, thespian, activist, and friend. Twice elected to the Russian River Redevelopment Oversight Committee and currently serving on the Sonoma County Economic Development Board. I look forward to being the next Fifth District Supervisor developing a shared vision toward a sustainable future.

Lot’s of additional biographical information and more in depth positions on the issues available on our website at www.TomLynch4Supervisor.com .

Thank you

Thank You and All members for your good works!