Building Industry Association
of Tulare and Kings Counties, Inc.

Managed government relations; legislative and regulatory advocacy; conducted regular coalition building; provide strategy, managed and raised contributions for non-partisan campaigns for public office.

• Reinstated BIATKC Annual Meeting - keynote speakers included Victor Davis Hanson and KMJ's top-rated radio host Ray Appleton
• 100 percent success rate in prevailing against excessive/illegal fees and regulations in nine Tulare/Kings County cities
• Recruited four new Builder members (assessments of $35k each per year)
• Successfully orchestrated industry campaigns to bring political pressure necessary to replace anti- housing government staffers with motivated, customer-friendly professionals
• Re-staffed, hired office manager with the needed skills that enabled me to focus on my big picture responsibilities
• Supervised total re-building of BIATKC Web Site, including retaining of new IT support contractor
• Interviewed candidates for elective office, and recommended action for PAC Trustees

TODD PUBLIC SOLUTIONS GROUP

Government and community relations; designed and wrote direct mail pieces; managed legislative and regulatory advocacy at the state and national levels; perform coalition building; provide strategy, management and fundraising for non-partisan political campaigns. Clients included:

• Terry Maxwell for Bakersfield City Council, (elected), 9/12-11/17
• Workman Brothers/Ennis Development Corp./Interstate Land Co., Delano, CA 5/06-1/07
• VDC, LLC (land development project), McFarland, CA, 8/12-5/15
• Re-election of Mayor Ruben Hill (independent expenditure funded by builders) Delano, CA 9-11/08
• Reflective Floor Systems, Inc., VP of Strategic Marketing, 4/11-1/12
• Harold Hanson for Bakersfield City Council, (incumbent), 2007-2011
• WPR Builder Services, Bakersfield, CA (government and community relations), 6-11/09

Home Builders Association of
Kern County and PAC

Represented a local trade association in government, PAC, community, and media. Notable achievements:

• Fastest-growing California chapter five consecutive years during my tenure, 2002-2006
• Chaired California Executive Officers Council, California Building Industry Assn., 2004
• Received individual Executive Officer award for excellence from the National Association of Home Builders, 2004
• Saved members approximately $40 Million through negotiations and legal action resulting in fair and legal impact fees
• Successfully advocated for the city council to repeal the City of Delano’s Urban Growth Boundary, the first UGB to be formally abandoned in U.S. history
• Collaborated for 2 years with our state senator and his senior capitol staff to obtain $50 Million from the state legislature in down payment assistance for low-to-moderate new home buyers
• Amended Federal law to allow use of FHA-insured mortgages for homes built east of Arvin, California, which had been incorrectly classified as a high flood-risk area
• Defeated a proposed county “Rural Valley Lands Plan,” a proposed moratorium on building in areas where 90 percent of new home construction was occurring
• Successfully lobbied Board of Supervisors to shift all Planning Commission costs from project applicants to the county's General Fund
• Negotiated the first-ever $1.25 Million reduction in City of Bakersfield building permit fees
• Association membership tripled, and cash reserve goals were exceeded
• Kept organization within 1% tolerance of Board-approved budget all 7 years
• Increased non-dues revenue to 15% of income

Bakersfield Association of
REALTORS (CA) and PAC

• Wrote and edited government affairs newsletter, increasing readership four-fold with allies, influencers, and elected officials outside the association’s rank-and-file
• Negotiated a “one fee pays all” transportation impact fee for Bakersfield
• Founding member of a Development Streamlining Task Force for the City of Bakersfield
• Negotiated an agreement with county school districts not to take private land for school sites
• Collaborated with city staff to develop a flexible Historic Preservation ordinance
• Chaired California Association of REALTORS Government Affairs Directors Committee, 1997
• Organized an annual Home Buyer's Expo, the largest one-day HUD real estate event at that time with over 12,000 attendees and 110 exhibitor spaces
• Member, California Real Estate PAC strategic planning Task Force
• Kept department within 1/2 percent tolerance of annual budget

Professional and Community Service

• Member, Visalia Unified School District Measure A Bond Oversight Committee
• Chairman (two consecutive terms), Kern High School District construction Bond; Oversight Committee, 2005-09
• Member, Legislative Committees for Visalia and Tulare Chambers of Commerce
• Member, Government Review Council, Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce, 2000-08
• Bakersfield City School District construction bond oversight committee, 2007-11
• Community Advisory Council, Southern California Gas Company, 2002-05
• Volunteer Oral Interview Panelist, Bakersfield Building/Public Works Depts., 2002-06
• Director, Kern County Taxpayers Association, 1995-2011
• Director, National Forest Products Advisory Council 2000-04
• Founding Director, Kern Citizens for Quality Transportation
• Director, Kern Transportation Foundation, 1998-2004
• Sponsor, Habitat for Humanity, 1995-2001
• Director, Community Housing Resources Board, 1995-2000

National Association of Home Builders Rachel Manley Small Office Award