Emeryville is the city of the future. We can become a family friendly bastion nestled between two amazing towns, Oakland and Berkeley. With quick access to San Francisco, Emeryville has typically been a commuter city with a significant population drop after work hours. The pandemic changed that and in its wake, the future of our city faces increasing challenges to those who work, live, and play here.
Increased crime rates, part-time elected government, and survival of our locally grown businesses are the deepest concerns shared with me by residents. They want a beautiful Emeryville, and that should be protected, but not at the cost of a price hike to everyday living.
It isn’t enough to encourage affordable housing, we must ensure that every resident is living with optimal living conditions that includes work from home.
As the city of Emeryville is expected to grow by leaps and bounds in a few short years, we need a full-time, fully-engaged with the people, elected government to meet the demands that come with face-paced growth.
Our convening power as a municipality should support our locally grown industries who have embraced our newest minimum wage standards but need more support to meet them.
My name is Kalimah Priforce and I am running as a Democrat candidate for Emeryville City Council to be the change I want to see in Emeryville.
The City of Emeryville released an estimated 178,832 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 200.
Climate models predict a 4ºF temperature increase in the next 20 to 40 years, with an increase in the number of long dry spells, as well as a 20-30% increase in precipitation in the spring and fall.
Waste reduction.
My background isn’t in environmental issues, but it has been in public health advocacy and technology for low-opportunity communities. Environmental racism and how climate change affects public health and well-being is the lens I will be taking as an elected official.
Many of the measures that are currently in place, such as the Climate Action Plan 2.0, I support and part of my campaign is reinforcing the climate change progressiveness championed by my colleagues. However, I do place special emphasis on making sure Emeryville is a great place to live and work and that means addressing our living conditions and supporting our locally grown businesses and unions.
To my knowledge, but if more can be done, I look forward to those conversations.
My interest is to restore wildlife habitat along the park’s conservation lands and oppose destructive new development projects.
As I haven’t heard anything about this from constituents as a primary concern, I would not immediately change this current ordinance. I respect the work of the current city council’s efforts.
They should be, but I haven’t read any issues on the matter.
I think we should do a better job with working with our neighboring cities in improving their bike paths to and from Emeryville.
Public transportation should feel safer, and unfortunately the MacArthur Bart Station and the West Oakland Bart Station are our nearest public transportation hubs but fall outside our jurisdiction. Finding ways to communicate our concerns over safety to Oakland and working in concert with them will be a focus of mine.
I believe Emeryville is already doing a lot to improve sustainability measures. I wouldn’t change that.
As the number of electronic waste increases exponentially in the world, we should make greater efforts to ensure that these recyclable materials are collected and treated differently.
I am not certain, I would have to hear arguments on both sides to determine was my first step towards addressing this.
Yes.
I would have to read a recent impact report that suggests otherwise. Electric appliances are more cost effective, lowering the cost of construction. While gas may be cost-reducing, energy efficient electrical appliances actually produce the least expensive energy bills in the long run and have a positive impact on lower income families.
I can not reveal endorsements until September 30th.
The leading message of my campaign is “Be The Change.”