Chapel Hill

elected: Two terms on Chapel Hill Town Council, 1977-81 and 1983- 1987
appointed:

other: Director of Apprencticeship and Training, NC Dept. of Labor

1) a 21st century transportation system for Chapel Hill including a wide range of ways to get around town

2) create a collaborative relationship between the University and Town

3) careful choices on how to spend funds from the 2003 bond issue

appointed: Campus Affairs Director, UNC Young Democrats; Technology Director, NC Federation of College Democrats; National Council, College Democrats of America

other: Filibuster for Democracy, Students for the Judiciary, Campaign to End the Cycle of Violence, Democracy in the Classroom, Public Assembly, UNC Environmental Purchasing Workgroup

jason@jasonbaker.us; 919-338-1506; www.jasonbaker.us
A-6 Shepherd Lane, Chapel Hill

appointed: Town of Chapel Hill Transportation Board, Town Horace Williams Citizens Committee, Orange County Adult Care Home Committee

other: Neighborhoods for Responsible Growth, Sierra Club, Orange County Democratic Women.

* Carolina North developed with Town interests at heart, such as demonstrating a commitment to the air/environment with significant reduction in parking and automobile emphasis, demonstrating fiscal equity with the Town, and permanent land conservation ;

* Improvement of Downtown Chapel Hill with emphasis on providing 4 more police officers downtown; attract business downtown other than restaurant/T-shirt shops (like Children’s Museum, boutiques, clothes, art galleries, another bookstore, interesting food shoppes, etc.) ; shared parking arrangements to increase available parking; wireless internet beginning downtown yet for spreading to all of Chapel Hill; improve lighting yet retain ambience; improve sidewalks and planters, etc.

* Affordable housing—continue work on inclusionary zoning with new Town committee; continue to work with developers, nonprofits and financial institutions on providing such housing; look at Town’s Comprehensive Plan’s areas of development opportunity and factor affordable housing into future plans for these areas.

elected: Chapel Hill Town Council, 2001 to present

appointed:
I have been appointed to many Committees and as a Liaison to several Town Advisory Boards and Commissions, including:
Liaison to Housing and Community Development Advisory Board
Liaison to Public Arts Commission
Liaison to Human Service Advisory Board
Liaison to Technology Committee
Parking Lot 2 & 5 Redevelopment Committee

other:
Elected to ACLU of North Carolina Board of Directors

1)budget mismanagement including rising taxes, public safety not receiving adequate funding, public art funding should be cut

2) increase commercial tax base

3) water supply protection and conservation, concerned about water use restrictions due to ongoing development, especially proposed Carolina North project

Environmental - Stronger stream, slope, tree protections; open space
acquisitions; Carolina-North

Economic - Economic Development Office; 5,10,20 year economic development strategy; Downtown revitalization; community-owned broadband network; spur jobs growth; new process for Town budget and increase tax efficiencies ("Live within our means"); work to double Human Services budgets.

Development - shepherding good growth; collaborate with UNC on
Carolina-North; "evergreening" Comprehensive Plan, etc.