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Palos Verdes News Editorial – 2005
[Larry Clark, Peter Gardiner], Doug Stern, Tom Long and Steve Wolowicz, have steered the city through a tumultuous period that included, among other events: the purchase of hundreds of acres open space for preservation, enough to ensure the city’s semi-rural quality of life remains so for generations; the transformation of the landslide-beleaguered Ocean Trails golf course into the soon-to-be open Trump National Golf Club; a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court; … the slow but much sought-after change at Marineland, … with the Terranea/Long Point Resort; and, finally, after years of aggravation, putting the final stamp on a brand-new expanded Point Vicente Interpretive Center.
The current council also increased traffic enforcement city wide, opened the first city park in decades ….
There are challenges ahead, and we trust this council will tackle those in the same thorough, responsible manner as past issues.
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Civility envelops meetings in RPV
Elected officials have changed the tone of sessions that used to be contentious and highhanded
Daily Breeze September 27, 2004
The most recent Rancho Palos Verdes City Council meeting had all the hallmarks of a potentially turbulent, divisive and thoroughly unpleasant meeting.*** Instead, civility, respect and cogent analysis reigned. ***
Shirley Borks, a longtime observer of local politics, credits Stern with changing the council culture.
“I believe it started with Stern and the approach he took and the courtesy he showed,” she said. “It just absolutely made a difference to me and indeed I think the others see that they can disagree without being embarrassed by all that (rancor).”
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Recognized, Proven
Leadership
Daily Breeze Editorial, October 2003
In examining the issues in the campaign, we’ve
come to the conclusion that Stern, the city’s current mayor,
merits re-election. He was elected four years ago on
a platform of change and openness. Stern faced resistance to
his ideas when he came aboard in 1999, but the council has
come to embrace much of his agenda. Ultimately, that had benefited
residents of the city.
He has worked to make the city more open and
resident-friendly by pushing to expand the city’s Web
site and making the information more readily available to the public. Stern
supported the “listserv” system whereby residents can automatically
receive e-mails on city issues of interest to them.
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