San Rafael City Races
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City Council, District 1
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Candidate Statements
Maika Llorens Gulati
- San Rafael City Council Member, District 1
- Compassion: “I know that our path forward will require compassion, courage, fearlessness, and flexibility.”
- Collaboration: “As a fearless advocate for every family, youth, and small business owners, I see this moment as an opportunity to learn from one another, understand new perspectives, and celebrate our richness.”
- Priorities: “My priorities: creating a vibrant and safe community, strong foundations for our youth, supporting the local business community and workforce development, proactively pursuing solutions to climate change, building bridges across cultures and neighborhoods so we have the best of all worlds and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with every neighbor.”
- MaikaForSanRafael.com
City Council, District 4
What does (X) do?
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Candidate Statements
Mark Galperin
- Retired nuclear physicist
- Science: “I worked in the Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia and authored multiple publications in leading physics journals in the field of cosmic rays, neutrino astrophysics and cosmology.”
- Housing: “Upon retirement, I became interested in public service and local politics, especially providing alternative housing solutions for low- and below-medium-income families.”
- Businesses: “In 1998, I founded a business development company, Expanding Edge LLC, and headed it for the last 26 years, even after retiring in 2020.”
Rachel Kertz
- San Rafael City Council Member, District 4
- Advocacy: “As your representative in San Rafael City Hall, I have advocated for our neighborhoods and the city as a whole.”
- Homelessness: “We must explore compassionate responses to homelessness that balances the needs of the community and provides support for our unhoused neighbors.”
- Senior Citizens: “On the San Rafael Age-Friendly Task Force, I championed the security and safety of our older residents.”
Mayor
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Candidate Statements
Kate Colin
- Mayor, San Rafael
- Homelessness: “The pandemic contributed to an increase in homeless encampments and empty San Rafael storefronts. Newly elected as your mayor, I worked to create a successful foundation for helping people off of the streets — using pathways to housing and legal tools.”
- Growth: “I will continue to focus on strengthening our local economy, thoughtful growth planning, and addressing the impacts of climate change.”
- Budget: “I’m proud that our city has a balanced budget of over $211 million, and in this year alone, we’ve brought in approximately $50 million — in direct and indirect grant dollars.”
- katecolinsanrafael.com
Mahmoud A. Shirazi
- Businessman
- City Revenue: “Currently the growing vacancy rate is causing the city of San Rafael to lose revenue and drain city finances to continue shortfall.”
- Budget: “I will focus on working with business leaders in the community to bring businesses back to San Rafael and help to turn around the decay that is attacking the city finances.”
- Priorities: “As your mayor I will be seeking to bring together a consensus to implement solutions and my priorities are: balancing the budget, affordable housing, homelessness, storefront vacancy and creating a solid income base with integration, collaboration, cooperation of ideas in action.”
- mahmoudashiraziforsanrafaelmayor.com
City Attorney
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Candidate Statements
Robert F. Epstein
- San Rafael City Attorney
- No statement
Clerk and Assessor
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Candidate Statements
Lindsay Lara
- San Rafael Clerk and Assessor
- No statement
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