As founder, President and CEO of The Tolerance Firm (TTF), my "bread and butter" is contract work in curating corporate culture into compliance with governance, groomed for best practices. The corporate community in global 500 corporations are much like cities, being very diverse, divergent and divided, numbering individuals in the thousands. Each location or division shares the progress and pitfalls affecting the whole. TTF's work develops cohesion and cooperation that builds strength and unity.

I am a professional in reengineering business processes and deploying improved methodologies on a massive scale, where risk is costly. This involves problem solving through causal analysis which expands remedy by targeting prevention, cementing resolution as final and complete, and assuredly safe. People are included in the formula for change, with the transitioning services of mediation, ombudsman, and chaplaincy. The TTF will provide the only certification in non-religious Corporate Chaplaincy in America.

Although City business is not incentivized, as is big business, to earn a buck at end of day, our City still needs the profitability of efficiencies and cost-savings and improved deliverables. We are not seeing this performance and accountability from our City administration. And the City's refusal to be transparent leaves citizens with less than speculation, to do anything about change.

I bring 40 years of corporate experience to bear brunt against the bureaucracy and politics-as-usual that is stunting Fremont's progress and change. Before founding TTF, I enjoyed a successful career working in two prestigious research laboratories considered ivy-league on a global scale. I held management position with domestic and international responsibility at the Research Laboratory of General Motors and the Research Laboratory of IBM. This same duty to responsibility and integrity of application is what I will deliver as Mayor of Fremont. I will guarantee your inclusivity with formality in organization that puts an end to any citizen being at odds with what the City is doing as it affects you. Your say matters.

Nothing else matters more.  Our personal safety is under threat more today than ever in history. Safety is a discipline having many facets. In global business, corporate safety assurance is mandatory, and under the scrutiny of internal and external audit. As an officer in safety assurance I can determine what needs to get done and in best fit and fashion. My steady focus is on fact-finding, eliminating the sway of media hype and the slant of social networking pressure. The type and pattern of crime in Fremont must be studied.

As Mayor, I will form an expert team from experienced Silicon Valley consultants to analyze our crime, and evaluate our city's database of home invasions, robberies, rape and assault, to forecast means by which these patterns are obstructed. The target is not more police, the target is less crime.  This work is the necessary adjunct to preparing and fully staffing our police force. It is work we must get done now, to curb the growing trend in crime in Fremont, and establish a defense making Fremont citizens impervious to the susceptibilities that lead to crime. This will amount to making smart changes, not necessarily costly ones. It may be as clear as not ignoring or not tolerating threats. 

Corporations prepare for the same mass violence that may occur in any public venue. City Hall is as susceptible to a bomb threat or shooting spree as is a movie theater, or shopping mall or public school. What protection or avoidance do we have in place? None, that anyone knows about or will talk about. The difference in a business environment, from that of a city, is the emphasis on prevention as there typically is no great occurance of crime as experienced by cities. My business TTF was launched to pioneer the mathematical research in the development of new forensics, needed for organizational safety, but also having huge purpose for law enforcement and government military agencies.

Traditionally "forensics" are scientific tests or techniques used for the detection of crime. It is evidence that "tells". Whereas new forensics we are exploring are scientific tests or techniques used for the prevention of crime. This is evidence which foretells. This involves the crossing and combining of the hard sciences with the soft sciences, such as the behavioral sciences studying mass congregations of people. As Mayor, I have this insight into danger, that puts me in a proactive posture to work effectively with Fremont's Police and Detectives. Choose as your Mayor, who best to keep you safe, and who treats your safety as top priority. 

Perhaps the greatest purpose of City government is to secure a community lifestyle from disturbance. That the only response we're hearing is "more free COVID-19 testing sites", is dangerously shallow and dismissive. City Hall has the responsibility to investigate what exactly happened so we citizens never relive this catastrophe. What good are more COVID-19 testing sites if we don't first ask how our medical facilities have been compromised by lack of sustaining business, making them less able to adequately react to any swell in flu cases, should it happen. 

How many people in Fremont were endangered or died from the hype about a virus, by refusing to go to hospitals for treatment, for fear of COVID-19, as compared to persons admitted with the flu. What were all the death factors? Likewise, what were all the economic factors that devastated many more families in Fremont than did any disease? 

The Mayor and City Council are required to form public policy to manage public response to any health threat. Whether it is from air, water or disease, similarly to how the City manages fire evacuation, we need public policy to avert all the pitfalls we suffered in this COVID-19 pandemic. To date, absolutely nothing is being done about this. As your Mayor, disaster preparedness will be a formal and ongoing effort of civilian defense in City Administration.

As Mayor, I'll march with a consortium of mayors straight to the Governor's office. City government must reassert it's rightful role in the forming of our Governor's decisions that shape CA. Our Governor acted apart from and in defiance of what cities in CA were demanding and protesting as their response to COVID-19. 

As Mayor, I'll make sure our Governor knows both me and you, and what we want. We won't be silent about how we expect to live even during difficult or unexpected situations. We'll exercise our right to define our normalcy under all conditions. Not just for our sake, but for how you choose your children to live in the future. We don't want them standing in lines for basic needs.

According to the Organizational Chart on our City's website, the Mayor and City Council together govern over City Administration headed by the City Manager. This chart is not reflective of how our City operates. In reality, this Organizational Chart can play upside down. We can't know by what forces and for what purpose and for how long our City Council has been diminished in authority. It is certainly not the persons serving on the Council that limits the Council's capacity.  No doubt we have the best qualified, most dedicated and invested council members in recent history. But there's an inherent design of expectation apparent, maybe even indoctrinated, that constricts City Council to stay within parameters of not "rocking the boat". Whatever cripples their authority cripples progress.

As Mayor, I will insist on the full authority of our City Council, beginning with taking reins on what is told to be the most forbidden and certainly most important: our City Budget. Currently, this is a "rubber stamp" function for them, meaning our City Council members have little to no influence or opportunity in shaping the City budget.  

City Council represents people, each and every resident in their district. The relationship between our City Council members and their public is more personal today than it used to be. Members are closer to what is happening and to what matters. City Council as elected are chosen to manage people’s affairs, which largely is how their money is spent. The entire fiscal handling needs revamping into right order. This governance over finances must be taken out of the hands of City Administration spending the money. We hold our City Council members to deliver on their word, and their ability to perform is dependent on their governance over the funds. It is all one and the same conversation.

Fremont City Hall is operationally out-of-date and out-of-touch. The business of Government offices requires the same scrutiny and efficiency demanded of businesses in Silicon Valley. In our City Hall we have the best people working in an office environment ruled by politics unequipped to meet the growing needs and demands of Fremont residents. Operational consistency and transparency is nearly non-existent. Adherence to policy or procedures is neither corporate nor mandatory, and left to whim or best-fit rule given employee personalities.  We have a City staff that talks AT us and never with us. If you have dealt with our City departments, you know what I mean.

This defensive posturing creates distancing between City staff and the Fremont residents they are employed to serve. This behavior serves no one. City Hall refusing a more candid and disclosing engagement with the public, protects their image and operation. Being non-transparent then hides being non-cooperative, non-productive, and non-proactive. At some time residents ramp into any one of these walls. As Mayor, I have the expertise to guide the reengineering of the internal operation. Who does what and how it is to be done, will no longer be as laissez faire and left to individual discretion as it is today.

Notice that policy or procedure information for any department has all been scrubbed from the City website. This results in the public's disadvantage when needing to engage with the City departments. Citizens "in-the-dark" will be inclined to accept what one gets, and at City Hall, what one gets depends on who one deals with. This is the trappings of a bureaucratic system void of performance integrity.  As Mayor, I will ensure that no citizen be at the mercy of subjective handling, or disinformation, or any form of brazen bureaucracy, which currently has no escape or course of remedy. My first order of business will be to establish an office of Ombudsman and Complaint Resolution to keep this promise for the public's fair treatment and to protect citizen rights.  

Fremont residents need and deserve a state-of-the-art high-tech bus transportation system. What we have today, in terms of bus vehicles and bus stops, is pathetic and painful. Maybe buses seem like an old idea, something antiquated and abandoned to the junkyard of yesteryear. But this is not the case. When we delve into the crux of our largest problems we struggle to solve, such as homeless residents, and traffic congestion, and business growth, and new job opportunities, and new housing developments, and over-crowded schools, and community college enrollment, and elderly mobility, and not to forget, disaster recovery that may one day render automobiles useless, just about everything on our list of urgent attention, necessitates we take a serious look at our bus system.

What we have today is not what we want. The bus systems that exist in Europe, Japan, and elsewhere rival and even exceed the efficiency of automobile transportation. Fremont should have a well-designed bus transportation system that gets citizens from point A to point B as safely, quickly, and more affordably than one can travel by car. As Mayor, I see this challenge as doable and necessary before we can expect to make any significant stride in addressing all these other pressing matters. Buses are no longer optional. Working to create an entirely new and "futuristic" bus system for Fremont is a project I am passionate about.

Living in the Mission San Jose District of Fremont we are constantly reminded that the reason properties here are in greatest demand with exorbitant valuation is because we are reputed to have the best schools. Do we? There is no denying that it has always been the case that far too much is put on parents to educate their children. Far too much is put on children to educate themselves. This dependency creates disadvantage, divides children into different levels within the same classroom, the distinction being those who get help from parents and those who don't. The job of teaching belongs in school.  

The over-burdening of children with "homework", which grows steadily worse from grade to grade, is evidence of the erosion of education within the framework of school. School faculty collectively must be responsible for managing the amount of homework, and time to complete it, is assigned to each student. And factor into this equation the necessity for family time, play time and bed time. There is no learning without this balance.

This year, conditions beyond teachers' control have made matters worse. Parents face even more demands for home schooling during stay-home orders, and what children end up learning can no longer be defined by class level or course grade. This is terribly unfair to both children and parents. School administration must remain responsible and attentive to the students experience of education, not just test performance.

As Mayor, I will create a task force to benchmark for best practices at other schools, private and public, all facing many of the same challenges we are. We must resolve simultaneously the over-burdening of teachers and over-burdening of students, amounting to burn-out. Can we return to personalizing instruction, to contain lesson completion within school hours, making sure each student gets the in-class tutoring they need? This is what school was created to accomplish. 

For nearly all of the 33 years I've lived in Fremont, my volunteer group Western Waggins has provided free animal care assistance and pet problem solutions, including financial assistance with vet bills, to countless families in the Bay Area, even assisting veterinarians, and other rescue groups.  Our City Animal Shelter is first recipient of our efforts, in that we are a formidable force in averting and preventing countless pet surrenders.

In the past, Animal Services also relied on our services, in the many creative ways we strive to spare pets lives. I can assure you without hesitation that NO ONE wants the grim reality of having to euthanize helpless animals. I feel strongly that the time is NOW when we can stop this practice. I know of several attempts to have this discussion by other groups, but for whatever reason nothing has come of it. As Mayor, I will make certain of organizing this discussion, with the intention that we do what is necessary to transition our Animal Services to a No-Kill shelter. We won't be "inventing the wheel" as many other groups have done this very successfully.

Imagining how rewarding an endeavor this will be, makes any obstacle a lesser challenge worth tackling. Additionally, as Mayor, I intend to provide much needed support for the many non-profit or grass-root groups, providing animal rescue through building networks of foster homes by which animals are given opportunity for adoption. Today laws and licensing penalize these community pet preservation efforts in counter-weight to the necessary services they provide for our city, sparing our City Animal Services immensely.

It is by the dedication and endless effort these people provide, quietly without notice or fanfare, that our neighborhoods in Fremont do not become over-run by wild dogs and cats.  Much of the public do not realize how it is and by whose doing there is "Animal Control". Without this quiet citizen force at work, our Fremont Animal Control would have little control. We need to recognize the importance of this assistance from the community by giving what we can in form of support. Community activism is too valuable to take for granted.