Accomplishments
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Ryan’s Accomplishments:
- Created a nationally recognized Ayuda Linea (Help Line) for day laborers to prevent and prosecute abuse of undocumented workers.
- Led effort to invest part of the City’s reserve funds in local financial institutions to stimulate the local economy — an effort praised by the National Center for Local Sustainability as a model practice.
- Negotiated a historic settlement with UCSC that will protect the city’s housing and water supplies, promote alternative transportation, and improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods.
- Authored the Clean Ocean, Rivers and Beaches Fund that will monitor and reduce pollution in rivers and the Bay.
- Developed an innovative policy to incentivize small for-sale housing units to be built, allowing public servants and young professionals to buy into an expensive housing market.
- Voted to hire a Climate Change Coordinator for the City of Santa Cruz and to engaged Ecology Action in a program to “green” businesses and city facilities to dramatically reduce energy usage and pollution and to enable private and public cost savings.
- Voted to preserve six acres of the City’s Greenbelt from development.
- Worked with local artists to streamline the City’s permitting process so that musicians could play in restaurants and cafes without having to seek a permit from the Police Department.
- Created an interagency task force to coordinate efforts to increase the safety, cleanliness, and promotion of Downtown Santa Cruz.
- Formed a working group to establish a hi-tech research and development park and university-city technology transfer project on vacant industrial lands.
- Voted to create a National Marine Sanctuary Center for the Monterey Bay.
- Passed measure that has will repair all of Santa Cruz’s roads over the next five years and increase patrols of neighborhood parks and open spaces.
Watch Ryan’s vision for Santa Cruz here: