Member of City Council, District 1, City of Berkeley
This race uses ranked-choice voting: rank the candidates in order of preference. How it works
This seat represents District 1, not the whole district above. We can’t match an address to an area this small, so this race may not be on your ballot.
What does this office do?
- Passing city laws, called ordinances
- Approving the city budget
- Funding city services, such as police, trash, and parks
Affects: Environment and Public Health, Government Efficiency, Government Spending Reduction,
Candidates:
Nonpartisan
Daria Wrubel is a family and youth therapist and former union organizer with a graduate degree in counseling psychology. Her priorities are balancing the budget with new revenue such as a commercial vacancy tax and banning Flock surveillance cameras.
Nonpartisan
Laura Babitt is an accountant and operations executive with more than 25 years in finance who previously served as president of the Berkeley school board. Her priorities are fixing the city's structural budget deficit and creating affordable housing while addressing homelessness.
Records: Government Spending Reduction 1 for
Nonpartisan
Moni Gangopadhyay is a clean energy policymaker at the California Public Utilities Commission with a master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her priorities are closing the city's structural deficit and repairing streets, sidewalks, and infrastructure.
Nonpartisan
Ross Bernet is a climate program manager who led a deal permanently protecting more than 400,000 acres of forest and served on a Sierra Club chapter executive committee. His priorities are housing affordability and safer streets.
Nonpartisan
Steve Kromer is an energy engineer and efficiency consultant who spent 10 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His priorities are honest, readable city budgeting that addresses unfunded liabilities and giving public safety departments the tools to enforce city ordinances.
Records: Government Efficiency 1 for, Government Spending Reduction 1 for
Source: alamedacountyca.gov