Meet Your Elected Officials

Have you ever wanted to get some quality face time with your elected official? For a handful of residents who came out to the Los Altos Youth Center on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, there was ample opportunity in a relaxed and unhurried atmosphere. 

Invited by the Los Altos-Mountain View chapter of the League of Women Voters, about 20 state and local representatives were on hand to talk about everything from school revenues and budgets to water rates and open space parkland.

If you're kicking yourself, don't worry. The League of Women Voters holds this event each year. Just watch the calendar listings on Los Altos Patch, same time, next year.

Elected representatives on hand included:

• State Assemblyman Paul Fong (D-Mountain View)
• Cupertino Union School District board president Gary McCue
• Fremont Union School District trustee Barbara F. Nunes
• Foothill-De Anza Community College District trustee Joan Barram
• Los Altos City Council Mayor Pro Tem Val Carpenter and Councilman Jarrett Fishpaw
• Los Altos Hills Town Council Mayor Ginger Summit and Councilman Gary Waldeck
• Los Altos School District board president Bill Cooper
• Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District directors Yoriko Kisimoto, Ward 2, and Curt Riffle, Ward 4
• Mountain View City Council Mayor Jac Siegel and Council members Ronit Bryant, John Inks, Mike Kasperak and Laura Macias
• Mountain View-Los Altos High School District president Sue Sweeley
• Mountain View-Whisman Unified School District board president Ellen Wheeler
• Purissima Hills Water District Board president Robert Anderson.
• Santa Clara Valley Water District Director Brian A. Schmidt, District 7