Election Update and Thank You - Donald Childs for Rancho Cordova City Council

I want to thank everyone that voted for my candidacy, my friends and family, community members for your endorsement and support of my candidacy in this current city council campaign of 2020, and in 2018.

The Sacramento County Office of Elections released an update of votes this afternoon and it looks like we wont see a change from 8% of the vote, at 3,058. There are still 260,804 ballots left to count, and the next update will be on Tuesday, 11/10 at 4pm.

https://results.saccounty.net/resultsSW.aspx?type=CIT&map=MPRC&shape=Nov2020

It looks like we may have a new city council member with Siri Pulipati currently holding at 3rd place.

Congratulations to Siri, Donald Terry and David Sander.

I look forward to continuing to work with the city council to make Rancho Cordova a great city, and include Rancho Cordovans as partners in economic, public safety, land use planning, mobility, transit and zoning decisions that affect them by restoring the planning commission.

Thank you again for your support, for the opportunity to serve you in making a difference for Rancho Cordovans.

Ballot Guide Candidate Statement

I moved into Rancho Cordova in 1973 when my parents bought their first home in the Mills Park-Croetto neighborhood. I graduated from Cordova High School, attended American River and Cosumnes River College. I served as a member of the Rancho Cordova Incorporation Committee.

My experiences advocating for change in my neighborhood enabled me to develop conflict resolution skills, a value of respecting different views and the importance of actively listening to people.

During the 1980s-1990s, my parents and neighbors struggled to find solutions to address blight, crime, traffic safety and failing infrastructure, such as roads, sidewalks. Cityhood changed that, but recently, residents have been increasingly excluded as stakeholders.

Rancho Cordovans should be full partners in developing projects and policies that avoid the problems of the past, dividing our community. We deserve to be involved in the decisions that impact our quality of life and economic opportunities. Citizens of every other city in Sacramento County benefit from due process and inclusion a planning commission brings to the land use planning and zoning decisions that affect them.

In 2011, the Rancho Cordova Planning Commission was suspended to benefit developers. If elected, I will work to restore the Planning Commission.
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