My name is Sally Lieber. I am a corporate-free candidate running to represent you on the Board of Equalization. The Board oversees property taxes and other revenues for our State. Too often it's a place where big money interests drown out the voices of average Californians. It shouldn't be that way.
Extends courtroom protections to the developmentally disabled and cognitively impaired, making it more likely that they will be able to testify effectively. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor.
Made it illegal to sell, distribute, import, manufacture or possess a .50 caliber assault weapon in California, the first state in the nation to
do so. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Restored high school diplomas to Japanese-Americans who were interned during WWII. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Requires law enforcement to notify a victim if they do not intend to analyze or plan to dispose of DNA evidence before the statue
of limitations. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Requires all 1976 and later cars to pass a smog check for their model year, reducing cancer and asthma-causing particulate matter in California’s air by 10+
tons per day by 2015. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Would have instituted protections on the transportation of hazardous chemicals in waterways, similar to protections used when transporting petroleum. Approved by the Assembly
Established the Ocean
Protection Council to coordinate protection and conservation and coordinate sharing of scientific
data. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Defined marriage as a civil contract between two persons, seeking to end discrimination in issuing marriage licenses. AB 19: Approved by Assembly Judiciary. AB 849: Approved by the Legislature, vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger.
Made human trafficking a felony
in California, made survivors eligible for victim services and created a statewide task force.
Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Set limits for emissions of greenhouse gasses in California. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor.
Sought to create a non-partisan commission of legal
experts to review California’s criminal codes and right-size our criminal justice system. Approved
by the Assembly and the Senate’s Public Safety Committee
Low Performing Schools: Added
$50 million to strengthen preschool and increase accountability in the lowest-performing schools. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Prohibited California’s huge public employee retirement funds from making investments in defense or nuclear sectors of Iran. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Bans the practice of shackling pregnant inmates during labor, delivery and recovery and mandates prenatal and post-partum healthcare. Approved by the
Legislature and the Governor
Sought to strengthen workplace protections against toxic
chemicals that cause cancer and birth defects. Approved by the Assembly.
Sought to
allow candidates to obtain public funding if they met requirements and agreed not to not accept
private or corporate funds. Approved by the Assembly
Sought to strengthen the State’s ability to provide
early warnings on the hazards of toxic chemicals and in an emergency to identify businesses that bought specified toxic chemicals. Approved by the Legislature
Promotes the purchase of energy-efficient, fuel-efficient vehicles by local and state government through an incentive program.
Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Secured $1.3 billion in federal funding and preserved
students’ access to services. Approved by the Legislature and Governor.
Sought to make it easier for
students and families to opt-out of having their private information released to military recruiters
under the No Child Left Behind Act. Approved by the Legislature
Increased the State’s minimum wage from $6.75 to
$8.00, delivering $10B to low wage-earning Californians, predominately women workers.
Approved by the Legislature and the Governor.
Requires cities and counties to include
the housing needs of extremely low income households (e.g., minimum wage earning families, SSI recipients) and households requiring supportive housing in their Housing Element plans.
Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Expanded
the use of Cal Grants for first-year tuition and fees and doubled the number of Competitive Cal
Grants. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor.
Established the San Francisco Bay
Restoration Authority to raise funds, award grants to help restore and preserve the Bay’s fragile habitats. Approved by the Legislature and the Governor
Coverage: Sought to establish a
universal coverage, single-payer system of healthcare making all California residents eligible
for health care benefits. Approved by the Legislature.
It’s essential that we extend support for renters and small businesses, and play an active role in county, state,
and federal deliberations about COVID-19 mitigation and recovery.
We must be prepared to support our small businesses and nonprofit organizations for the long haul, help them develop new strategies for serving the community, and work with our healthcare and school districts to ensure
the best outcomes for our residents.
As our community recovers, it is necessary for our city government to work proactively to meet the community’s needs for childcare, job assistance, and access to getting microbusinesses up and running quickly.
During the COVID-19 crisis, and after, we must work with our vehicle dwelling residents to ensure that families
are not displaced from our community or pushed into homelessness. Strategies that focus solely on case management ignore the reality that these families face: the combination of reduced employment, high rents, and
a housing shortage can make a vehicle their only option. We need more, and dispersed, safe, off-street parking
for RVs.
It’s clear that our community needs more housing to meet the demand of our local workforce and ensure that young people who grow up in Mountain View have an opportunity to stay here. We must also do more to protect apartment renters, and mobilehome homeowners and renters.
We need additional compact housing that is linked to transit, small businesses, and services. We can make greater use of tools like land banking, and put an emphasis on working with nonprofit housing providers to preserve existing affordable housing and create new affordable housing. We need new programs to make it
easier for homeowners to plan for and build in-law units on their properties.
We must eliminate the widespread displacement of Mountain View residents that has affected our community
so much in the past several years. We must ensure that no one is displaced due to COVID-19, and be even
more proactive in ensuring that our community members can access legal help when they need it.
Mountain View voters instituted rent control, but for the past several years the committee that oversees its implementation has been impacted by the appointment of members that are philosophically opposed to rent control. We must see to it that the voters’ will is upheld and rent control is extended to our mobilehome parks.
Mountain View has made significant strides toward sustainability over the past two years. Now it is time to fast-track implementation of those goals and to put Mountain View on the record supporting good environmental legislation at the county, state, and federal level. We must do everything in our power, now, to slow and reverse climate collapse.
We must look ahead to our community’s future energy needs and plan for local generation, storage, and use of clean renewable energy. We can and must work with our large and small-scale employers to reduce traffic and create more opportunities for people to live close to work and to work from home.
Ensuring that mass transit is affordable, usable and pleasant, is a priority. We need a Council that will effectively advocate for transit that is flexible and serves north Santa Clara County well. Increasing our bicycle infrastructure will have multiple benefits for our community. We need additional Peninsula bicycle commuting routes. An important opportunity lies in working with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to create a bicycle
route throughout the Peninsula on the Hetch Hetchy right of way.
We also need to enhance our local environmental and recreational infrastructure: completion of the Bay Trail,
local habitat protection, continued Bay restoration, engagement of families and community members in environmental activities and education at Shorelines, in local parks, and on our trails.
Mountain View should be a community where everyone’s voice counts equally. We need further campaign finance reforms to ensure that entities with an economic interest before our City Council don’t overshadow the voices of residents.
Our police and emergency response services must always be respectful, protective, and take into account historical and current discrimination, mental health needs, developmental needs, and the need for integrated
crisis intervention.
Our City’s policies should reflect public health principles, inclusion, and transparency. Our City Council should
play a greater role in highlighting the caring infrastructure that is needed in our community: healthcare, childcare, homecare, education, and support services for families. We should always stand up to prevent harm, whether
it is targeting of our undocumented residents, insensitivity to LGBTQ families and community members, or widespread environmental harms. We can and must have a City Council that is always on our side.