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Newberry Community Services District Director

What does this office do?

  • Setting the district's budget and the rates or assessments it charges
  • Deciding which services the district provides, such as water, sewer, parks, or fire
  • Hiring and overseeing the general manager

Affects: Government Efficiency, Government Spending Reduction, Public Infrastructure

Candidates:

Nonpartisan

Devorah Allen-Solorio is a Newberry Springs small business owner and logistics professional with an MBA from Cal State Long Beach. She wants to protect local water, oppose AI data centers, invest in infrastructure, and tighten oversight of district spending.

Nonpartisan · Incumbent

Jack Unger serves on the Newberry Community Services District board. He says the board needs more public scrutiny and wants meetings streamed online, conflicts of interest avoided, and an end to wasted tax money.

Nonpartisan · Incumbent

Michael Devan Matson Sr is vice president of the Newberry Community Services District board, where his current term began in 2022. We found no published statement of his priorities.

Nonpartisan · Incumbent

Robert M. Springer serves on the Newberry Community Services District board in a term that began in 2022. He says he wants to keep building a safer, stronger, and more resilient community through collaboration.

Nonpartisan

Robert Shaw is a Newberry Springs resident. He wants to finish the existing South Park before the new North Park, budget conservatively to keep the district office open five days a week, and support the volunteer fire department.

Nonpartisan

Ted Stimpfel is a Newberry Springs resident with a business background. He wants careful budgeting, videotaped meetings with more public input, an upgraded park, full support for the fire department, and completion of the planned civic center.

Sources: uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov2