On a rainy Saturday morning on February 6, 2010 176 South County residents filled the Avila Room at the Trilogy Golf Resort to hear the three candidates for the San Luis Obispo County’s 4th District seat.  The candidates in alphabetical order:  Jim Guthrie, Paul Teixeira, and Mike Zimmerman answered questions from the audience for two hours at the moderated Candidate’s Forum.  Dave Congalton of Home Town Radio, KVEC 920 A.M. moderated the forum before the largest political candidate forum ever held in Nipomo.  There were 63 questions submitted, but we only had time for candidates to answer 22.

Below are my rough notes of the forum including the opening statements, questions, answers and closing by each of the candidates.  They are not meant to be verbatim, but rather my best recollection of the content of their comments.

The Nipomo Incorporation Committee for Education is sponsoring a forum for the current candidates running for the 4th District Supervisor Seat.  Please download our flyer:  NICE 2010 Super Forum Flyer

NICE hosted a booth at the annual Nipomo Octoberfest, which drew a fair amount of interest, including some who agreed to fill out our information survey.  Photos below:

 

Nipomo Incorporation Committee for Education

Questionnaire Results (25% response)

March 1, 2009

The Santa Maria Times, apparently the only media present at the NICE community meeting–Nipomo County to City, has an informative article in today’s Santa Maria Times.  Mike Hodgson, Associate Editor for the Times writes:

The Nipomo Incorporation Committee for Education (NICE) held its most recent community meeting on Saturday, 03/28/09 at the Woodlands Trilogy, Avila Room from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.  Over 100, (103 was the official count) local Nipomo residents, joined several governmental leaders and community leaders at the meeting.    Katcho Achadjian, 4th District Supervison, San Luis Obispo County attended, as did officials from the Nipomo Community Services District, Chamber of Commerce, and others.  Katcho moderated the morning’s discussion, which included the following presentations.  

The Nipomo Incorporation Committee for Education (NICE) is holding another community gathering, which will be moderated by the Katcho Achadjian, San Luis Obispo County 4th District Supervisor.   The details are:

Nipomo Incorporation Steering Committee Minutes

December 9, 2008

Present: Mike Eisner, Bonnie Eisner, Ingmar Lauringson, Lynn Mc Gill, Bob Mc Gill, Jim Harrison, Larry Verheilig, Merle Ackerman, and Dan Gaddis.

Mike Hodgson, an associate editor with the Santa Maria Times attended yesterday’s Nipomo Development Conference hosted by the Nipomo Incorporation Committee for Education (NICE).  Mike’s excellent write up is in this morning’s Santa Maria Times here. 

On Saturday, September 20, 2008, 263 Nipomo residents jammed the Avila Room at at the Monarch Club in Trilogy (Woodlands) to hear about eight development projects in the works in the Nipomo Area.