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The Dublin City Council is set to be under new leadership later this year, with four candidates running for the mayor’s seat following the departure of Melissa Hernandez for the BART Board of Directors and the expiration of the interim term that Michael McCorriston was appointed to.
One of the hopefuls in the race is newcomer Tom Evans, who is emphasizing his deep roots in the city he was born in and seeking to contend with challenges in its present day landscape including urban growth, traffic and parking, city planning, and bringing high paying jobs to the region.
“If you can afford a house in Dublin, then you likely don’t work in Dublin,” Evans said on his campaign website. “The majority of homeowners commute to work for a good salary because their skill set is not supported with jobs here. Dublin has many retail jobs that don’t pay enough to live here. Our city’s future needs to deal less with housing and more with recruiting businesses with good paying jobs.”
For his part, Evans worked across the city line in Pleasanton at Simpson Manufacturing prior to his retirement, having moved back to his hometown of Dublin in 1994 following his service in the National Guard and graduation from the University of California, Berkeley with a civil engineering degree.
“My wife and I raised a family and watched Dublin become one of the fastest growing cities in California and become home to a diverse and talented population; and I am grateful that our police and fire organizations have kept pace with outstanding community protection,” Evans said in his candidate statement.
“I’m running for mayor because many projects being planned for Dublin are not positive changes, for example: annexing county open space to build commercial development, multiple blocks of 6-to-8-story buildings, a road that costs $100M per mile,” he continued.
While noting that the city’s financial position is relatively positive, Evans critiqued current spending trends on his campaign website, including the potential $50 million to $80 million in costs for the Dublin Boulevard extension, $80 million in costs for an eight-story parking structure downtown, and “infrastructure for the new Downtown that the developer won’t pay for.”
“Part of fiscal responsibility is communicating with the public – residents that are paying the bill – about large expenditures or indebtedness,” Evans said.
Evans also criticized city leaders’ existing relationship with the Dublin Unified School District and emphasized the importance of these two bodies working together.
“There’s no denying that the relationship between the City and the Dublin Unified School District has been strained for a few years now,” Evans said. “We need to have better cooperation, better sharing of resources such as parks, and more focus on students.”
More information on Evans’ campaign is available at tomevansformayor.com
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