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About Beryl Baker
A Community activist for 30
years!
Beryl has lived over 50 years in Tucson and is a thirty year Tucson environmental and neighborhood
activist. She is a founding member of the Santa Cruz South West Neighborhood Association and Desert Voices Coalition. She has participated in numerous committees including the Storm Water Management Study Committee (15 years) and Neighborhood Infill Coalition. Beryl is working to educate neighborhoods about eminent rezoning issues facing the City now.
Beryl was part of the neighborhood team which got the West Branch of the Santa Cruz bought by the County for a conservation area.
Currently, Beryl is a member of Civil Air Patrol, Desert Harness Driving Club, Tucson Organic Gardeners, and Nature Conservancy.
Beryl's issues are neighborhood centered. She wants to protect the Tucson-style quality of life, including assuring personal safety as well as protection of the environment. She is for pragmatic transit alternatives that will take the load off our roads and our air. Relocalization means Try Tucson First. As a supporter of Prop 200, she wants the regressive fees rescinded, or drastically reduced and taken off the water bill, where a poor family could be disconnected for failure to pay on time. And she wants for Tucson not to outgrow the water that is here, with a decision to review new hookups when we reach specific benchmarks. She also believes we should be using homebuilder worker skills to rehab existing homes.
To Beryl, the Green Party's Ten Key Values pretty much reflect what she has lived all her life, and what most Tucsonans already believe. They just don't know, yet, that there is a political party that will bring them competent, pragmatic candidates for office, who will put these values first.
As a City Council member, Beryl expects to include the general public in problem solving and solutions. As the facilitator for her neighborhood coalition, Beryl is used to listening to the community and finding the best solution for Tucson.
Brief Biography
Beryl Baker, is the daughter of a local chemical engineer and a librarian.
She has worked on an alfalfa farm, in a microbiology lab, and for the public libraries. She is a sheepdog trainer and drives harness horses. She has made and retailed jewelry, worked with youth programs and collected data from farms and ranches for statistics. She has three associates degrees and some University work, and she currently has a Fish & Wildlife grant for a repository of native fish and their ecology in a pond on her property. She is deeply concerned about sustainability issues in Tucson, and the limits of water.
Beryl needs your help, please volunteer
and/or make a financial donation
to this important campaign!
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