1. Name as it will appear on the ballot
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2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):
3. Are you the incumbent? Yes No
4. How long have you resided in this district/city?
5. How long have you resided in King County?
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6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
CAMPAIGN CONTACTS
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Friends of John Chang |
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1. Beginning with the most recent position, please list public offices which you have held. Include positions on appointive Boards or Commissions.
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12-31-2005
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Asian Pacific Elected Municipal Official (APELMO) Bd. Member
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2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:
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In this section, we are seeking responses that reflect the four ratings criteria: involvement, effectiveness, character, and knowledge. These are defined as follows:
1. In a page or less, why are you running for this office? (Note: the interview committee will be given a copy of this statement before your interview; at the beginning of your interview you will have the opportunity to expand on this statement in any way you wish.)
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My position is to enhance our Aurora (Highway 99) area, that is our primary business area, in a way that retains and expands our existing businesses, so we can continue to provide enhanced servics to our citizens. I want to continue the high road maintenance and surface water services, the community policing that is approchable and accountable to the public, provide Park maintenance, recreational & sports activities & turf fields that increases usage and cultural services of performing and graphic arts -museum-and symphony that increase our citizens quality of life. I will continue to increase our traffic safety by appropriating the fundng for sidewalks around our schools.
I am running to see that all groups within Shoreline are represented and have an opportunity to be heard in a fair and efficient public process. I also, want to see creative and succesful economic development that focuses on the retention and expansion of existing businesses. |
2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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My persistenance in the face of adversity, I am legally blind with no central vision and 20/800 uncorrectible periferal vision. I immigrated to this country as a elementary school graduate and yet I completed high school in the USA and received two BA degrees in Finance and Internation Trade from the University of Washington. I worked for 04 years with the US Internal Revenue Service, and then for 23+ years I have owned and operated my own Econo Lodge that has grown from 13 units to its current 44 units.
I worked with the State "Services for the Blind" to get special computer software that reads Microsoft windows documents to me, and have other services to magnify the documents to a size I can read.
I am kind and generous to others to the point of being a weakness (at times) because I am some times taken advantage of. I always try to listen to others point of view and weigh the general good for the community. I am positive and optomistic with a strong personal faith. I want my children, as well as others, to have have a quality of life that is better than what I had. I want to see improvement in my life time. |
3. Please describe in sufficient detail, one to three accomplishments or contributions of which you are most proud. These examples should illustrate effective skills and capabilities you think apply to the office you are seeking. These accomplishments may have occurred at any time in your personal, professional, or public life.
4. Please list or describe your current and past activities in the community in which you have acquired skills that relate to the office you seek. Include your role in the activity and the year(s) in which you were involved. Involvement consists of many areas such as family, neighborhood, community, employment, or public life.
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1) Board Member, (North Seattle) Catholic Church 2) President , Catholic Church Youth Group 1977 3) Presedent , Catholic Young Adults Group 1990 & 1993 4) Advisory Board Member, Seattle Korean Assoc. 1995 to Present 5) Board Member, Shorewood Hills Home owners Association 1997 to 2000 6) Member, Shoreline Chamber of Commerce 1997 to Present 7) Board Member, Shoreline Merchants Association 1999 to 2002 8) Member, St Francis (faith/social club) organization 2003 to Present 9) Member, Advisory Committee (ACDPU) to Republic of South Korea President-2003 to pres. 10) Member, Advisory Committee to US President (Bush) about Republic of South Korea 2004 11) Board Member, Washington State Korean Chamber Commerce 1998 to Present 12) Owner of the Econo Lodge (44 units) in Shoreline for the past 20 years 1985 to present
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The duties can be divided into two parts Legislative representative and administrative as Board of Directors.
The legislative is representing and meeting with the public for 30% of the time, and serving on multiple County/suburban cities, State - Assoc of Washington Cities, and National League of Cities committees on legislative matters accounts for another 30 % of my time.
The administrative matters of reviewing council packets, budget priorities, and comprehensive plans and zoning issues occupies another 40 %.
The most important is to balance all the different interest groups, and to be fiscally responcible to the public on the budget. In ten years, we have put $30 million away into reserves on a $25 million dollar general fund. We have absorbed the 25 county parks and increased services by two to four times for park maintenance, recreation and sports activities, and cultural services in the performing arts and museum of history. We have completed over 100 surface water projects and now have NO flooding problems in Shoreline. We have upgraded and maintained all roads. We are now working on Economic Development so we can continue to provide high level services.
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EDUCATION BACKGROUND SUMMARY
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report is distributed to voters in print and/or on our website. It includes a summary of the candidate’s education. Please summarize your education in 120 characters (letters, punctuation, and space all combined). The League will delete material that exceeds the space limit by beginning with the last entry. Suggested order is (degree) (subject) (school) (year, if desired).
Note: If this question is left blank the League will not include education information in your candidate profile.
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BA degrees (1982) in Finance and International Trade from the University Of Washington |
FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report also includes a summary of each candidate’s civic involvement. Please summarize your civic involvement in the space below. We will make every attempt to include the information in the Candidate Evaluation Report as submitted. Due to space restrictions in the Report, your response is limited to 500 characters (letters, punctuation, and spaces all combined). It is important that you list your involvement beginning with the most important and ending with the least important. If you exceed the length of response permitted, or if the League should find it necessary to shorten responses for publication purposes, deletions will be made beginning with the last item listed.
Note: This information will appear verbatim on the League’s Candidate Evaluation Report. If this question is left blank, the Municipal League will not include information on your civic involvement in the Report.
Check here if you would like the Municipal League to copy the first 500 characters from Question 4 to paste into this section.
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Finished!
If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (rebecca@munileague.org). Mail and fax numbers are listed below. If the League has not contacted you to schedule an interview, please call the League office at your earliest convenience.
Don’t forget to send the following to the Municipal League: a resume, a photo, campaign literature, and, if you are an incumbent, constituent newsletters and other materials. Please use the check-off list on the cover sheet of this packet to indicate which items you have sent.
Candidate Evaluation Coordinator: Rebecca Cooper
Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: 425-671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org