Alaska Conservation Voters
2009 Anchorage Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire

Please check one:
1 I seek ACV’s endorsement.
# I do not seek ACV’s endorsement, but I’d like you to know my views on these issues.
1 I’d like to discuss endorsement with ACV.

Candidate Name __ Paul D. Kendall aka “Will Free”

Note:
I am presuming you will share this (and the the Plan”, Begich Letter”, Obama Letter”) with your entire body of members, all of your members and their memberships, and The Public as Well,,, I would and will be very disappointed if you do not….
I have seen races where special interest candidates use questionnaires like this and others to learn themselves up from an adversarial view or circulate these for a more like minded view of another candidate without the general public knowing so…

In my case, I think that one of our main problems is the secrecy we have been allowing to happen in our governing bodies..there are some (many) personal things in my life which I prefer to be private,,, and if chosen by the public to hold their full faith and trust my life will from then on be pretty much public.

But, for the time being this information is and should be considered public and I will fell free to send it to others as I have with the ADN questionnaire.

I hope you will understand that I have tried to answer many of these unexpected and personal questionnaires in some individual way, not repeating what I said in another one…not doing a canned thing…
I think each of us is really more than we see of each other….

1.) About the Candidate. What motivated you to run for Mayor of Anchorage? What will be your primary areas of focus if elected?
Anchorage has a chance to be a leading city with world recognition for not just the BIG WILD LIFE, but rather as a first city of understanding its relationship to ENERGY, CLEAN ENERGY and its role in a new and more free community

To attempt to communicate to a community as a whole body…which we seem to be being denied as a citizenry… there is or are fewer and fewer ways and means for us to hear one another’s opinions and views unless we are moneyed up or belong to some group or influence apparatus outside of the average individuals availability….

Please note, there are many issues long overdue in need of correction…..
The Electrification of our Anchorage Residential Community and the many wonderful and new innovations and freedoms this will breach ..Not to mention the economic opportunities that will be introduced.

--Political Corruption,
--Means of Public Dialog by camera videoing up community centers to broadcast on live cable channels.
--Major Tidal, current, and in line river Hydroelectric and hydrogen projects in our Cook Inlet areas around Anchorage

Please see my AND questionnaire..which was the first to be done and therefore because I thought it would be the only one ,,, it may contain more shortend insight into my candidacy…





2.) Environmental Philosophy. What is your personal environmental philosophy? What environmental issues are important to you? Please include any examples of things you have done to show environmental leadership in the Anchorage community.
I am not sure where the Environmental Groups are at in their Vision for Alaska…

God knows, I have certainly tried to raise Energy Awareness in the community by means of talk radio, e-mailing legislature, flyers on cars, or attending various groups and organizational meetings, then raising or challenging them to questions and review of their positions..
I am the one who relocated and have drawn attention to the 1981, 241 page study to convert Old Harbor to an all Hydrogen Gas fueled community… “Hydrogen Use in Alaska” (A one of its kind study in the world ?)……

Please read my The Plan, the letter to Obama, My letter to Begich, the AND questionnaire submitted last week..I have written many views on Energy and a Water based energy society..
My primary concern is our residential dwellings Individual Life Essential Energy Needs priorities and applications…..

I am encouraged a great deal by what appears to be Mr. Obama’s realization that we need to electrify our entire society,,, starting with our residential needs and uses….




3.) Funding & Budget. Which statement best describes your view when considering the municipal budget?

____ Municipal spending is too high and we must continue to make cuts.
____ The most important thing when considering the budget is that we continue to make cuts and reduce taxes.
____ The most important thing when considering the budget is to work within the available dollars without raising taxes, even if we have to cut services.
__X__ The most important thing when considering the budget is to provide adequate services and protect our quality of life, while making sure the budget is balanced.
____ We need to hold the line as best we can while committing to a long term fiscal plan that diversifies our revenue stream.
____ Other (specify) __

_I think we may have to view cities in new means of some form
of formula…all societies have to evolve or perish, and with a greater understanding of our relationship to all other creatures and paradigms of life as we know it; It may now be the time to review CITIES as we know them….
And imperative to this evolutionary city formula review, is our New Awareness of CLEAN ENERGY, (harmonic fuels) of Electricity (magnetic fields- the male,,, and Water- hydrogen gas - atom -the female energies
After all of these years in some ways as a kind of energy activist… I am sensing a great new awareness of Energy in relationship to the universe and all living creatures,, a kind of common connection which has always been here, we just now seem to be becoming more in tune or aware of it….if you individually rate the importance of the 3 below, one can only conclude that without Energy there is no existence of life….or liberty or population.

ENERGY
INDIVIDUAL FREE WILL
POPULATION


4.) Funding & Budget. Please highlight how you plan to address the Municipality’s $17 million budget deficit. What specific cuts, if any, would you make to reduce the deficit?
I am not sufficiently informed….However; I would look at such things in addition to public safety , as schools, alcohol, tobacco, outside laborers, illegal immigrants sending out money and a wide variety of other areas..
I really believe we are not having the discussion we need to be having…. It is not the cuts we should be looking at rather ,, it is our priorities as a species gathered in a dense collective called a city which should be the discussion
AND
We all should be looking at the darkest of economic outcomes that may be arriving soon if many of the so called economic experts are correct..
My family owned up to 14 corporations over many years and the first thing we always did was to assess the worst possible outcome,, the fall back positions…hence, our priorities.

I am very concerned about our Economic health as a nation and as a state, I think see unusual constructs occurring quietly in the background along with too many other surface and attention getting concerns…..the scale of and intent of these is confusing and misleading ….in many ways…..

((My assessment… Nearly MASSIVE UNCERTAINTIES ! ))…and I cant tell if they are being constructed, or as a result of, events;
therefore,,, we need to fall back to Clean Energy and Clean Water and Clean Basic Food for our residential security….NOW…now being for the next 5 years….All sectors should come together and allocate their funding into a common expenditure pool for the purposes of implementing and building numerous Clean Electricity and Water Projects along with some constructs for Green House Food Supplies…

Sustainability should be replaced by Harmony…..Sustainability is no longer the issue; Rather, it is will we be able to exist in harmony with our planet in all facets and of those facets we cannot be in harmony with, what are the ramifications and new solutions….




5.) Climate Change. Which of the following most accurately reflects your view:

____ There is sufficient scientific evidence that global warming is primarily human caused and needs to be addressed.
__X__ While I am uncertain about the scientific evidence it is prudent to address this issue.
____ There is not sufficient scientific evidence that global warming is actually occurring as a result of human activity and no action is necessary.


6.) Land-use and Planning. Do you support the implementation of the vision, goals and objectives of the Anchorage 2020, Anchorage Bowl Comprehensive Plan through Title 21?

____ Yes
____ No __X__ Other (specify) I am not sufficiently informed on this _____

What are your priorities for comprehensive plan implementation?
Again, I need to be more informed ….I am very interested in the Residential Dwellings and its Energy needs
Humor ( I think the grass yards would serve us better if we were to grow edible foods for our selves, neighbors, and the wild life…..




7.) Land-use and Planning. Which statement best reflects your views? The current rules governing land-use and design standards developments are:

____ About right; development should continue under current Title 21 regulations and guidelines.
____ Too strict; developers should be given more latitude to develop private properties.
____ Not adequate enough; the Title 21 needs substantial revision as proposed and should implement the vision, goals and objectives of the Anchorage Comprehensive Plan.
____ Other (specify) _____Not informed adequately___________________


8.) Parks & Trails. Which statement best reflects your views. Our city’s current parks and trail system is:

____ More than sufficient for current and future residents. We don't need to acquire any additional land for parks and trails.
_X___ Adequate as is, but we should identify future lands, public or private, for acquisition to meet the needs of future residents.
____ Needs expansion. Areas lacking parks and missing trail segments need to be identified and lands acquired and/or dedicated as parkland before it’s too late.
____ Other (specify) _I am very concerned about or lack of Energy vision and the portending economic upheaval and therefore we need to look at some of these items in a larger context of what is coming___________________


9.) Parks & Trails. Do you support protecting public access to Chugach State Park as private lands are developed along the park boundary?

____ Yes
____ No
____ Other (specify)_____Need to more informed____________


10.) Open Space and Wetlands. Which statement best describes your view on open space and wetlands in Anchorage?

____ The remaining natural open space and wetlands in our community are critical to our quality of life and should be preserved.
__X__ If possible, open space and wetlands should be protected.
____ New businesses and residential housing represent a higher priority than preserving natural open space and wetlands.
____ Other (specify) _____________________________________________________


11.) Pedestrian Safety. When considering pedestrian safety, which statement best describes your view?

____ Road builders are doing a good job providing safe sidewalks in Anchorage.
____ Anchorage’s sidewalks should be evaluated and if needed, improved when the adjacent road is repaved or reconstructed.
____ Anchorage needs a pedestrian safety plan that will set priorities for connecting, rebuilding, and improving sidewalks and trails.
____ Anchorage needs to spend more money on sidewalk safety and linkage, even if that means less money will be available for road construction.
__x__ Other (specify) __need more info,,, do to the climate challenges, some of our improvements may be leading us into diverting money for more important projects…______________


12.) Public Transit. Do you support increasing Anchorage's public transit service? Why or why not? What specific services would you like to see expanded?
I support PT, but want it done with new means of transportation, ie Electric, Hydrgen, Air, or other technology leading us to a more beneficial society and keeping our children in the forefront of understanding the new energy technonogies which I think are headed our way with an attitude…





13.) Public Transit. Would you support funding for the Regional Transit Authority to aid commuters traveling between Anchorage and the Mat-Su? Why or why not? Would you opinion change if Federal funds were allocated for this purpose?
I want to hear and see more ideas on this as I look at Anchorage and the Mat-Su surrounding areas as unique in their resources available to them to launch a great new or next city / community design..




14.) Public Transit. Do you support the state providing operating support for public transportation?

____ Yes
____ No
__x__ Other (specify) Some questions like this one are hard because they look for blind commitments or passions drawn from experience rich knowledge…__________
Public Transit is a large meal… its content heavy and very important…
I have relied on public transit in a large city and tried to initiate a small town public transit system in my younger years


15.) Knik Arm Bridge. Do you support or oppose the development of the proposed Knik Arm Bridge? Why or why not?
I would support it if it were part of a package..
This package I suggest is too large to define in space here… I’ll try a little..

A Large Multi Platform Pillar Design cable based bridge design so we could initiate multiple hydroelectric in line current , tidal, and above and below ice flow projects for Electricity Generation… a kind of Research Center of World Renown stature….
Studying, Cook Inlet Wide Area ,,,,,River, Tidal, Shore line Channeling, interfacing, and understanding of stress forces for the purpose of River and Shoreline villages of Alaska for nearly immediate electrical power generation, storage and transmission
For the purposes of Residential needs primarily,,,,,
I could go much further in this wonderful opportunity around the “MAC BRIDGE Interests”





16.) Port Expansion. Do you support or oppose the proposed expansion of the Port of Anchorage? Why or why not?
I want to see and hear the PLAN…. I have again some concerns about our priorities of expenditures and think we may have lost site of some fundamental reasons we are a great nation
The Port is important, but in what application, cost, vision, and to whom…etc..




17.) Airport Extension. Do you support or oppose the proposed East-West Runway Extension Plan for the Anchorage International Airport? Why or why not?
I am concerned about it and would need more information…




18.) Recycling. Which statement best describes your view on recycling in Anchorage?

__X__ With financial support from the city and encouragement from the community, recycling programs (curbside, drop-off locations, school recycling etc.) can become a viable part of Anchorage's overall waste management plan.
____ The city’s current recycling services provided by a network of nonprofit organizations and businesses are adequate and do not need to be expanded with public funds.
____ There is plenty of landfill space available. The cheapest and most practical solution is to simply discard everything.
__X__ Other (specify) _____________



19.) Campaign Viability. The following information will be kept strictly confidential by Alaska Conservation Voters staff and Board of Directors and is used to help determine endorsements for viable candidates. Please provide a sketch of your plan to win your race, including:
How many votes you need to win_____________________________________________

Where those votes are______________________________________________________

How much you plan to spend on your campaignI am unemployed & not taking donations

How you will raise funds sufficient to fulfill your plan
I believe that all citizens should try to contribute their community as best they can and that allcitizens should be able to hold an office regardless of being accomplished, published, or degeed_______

What doors you will visit and when___________________________________________

What advertising you will buy _______________________________________________

What candidate forum appearances you will make_ALL if I am invited_______________

What endorsements you are planning to seek _i seek only the citizens _____

Who your campaign manager will be __I have no campaign manager_____________



















CANDIDATE INFORMATION

Candidate Signature_____Paul D. Kendall__________ Date_March 2, 2009

Mailing address ____1342 Hyder_______________________

Telephone(s) land line 907-222-7882 now cell 907-727-2623
No fax #______ Email_pauldkendall@yahoo.com

Thank you for answering this questionnaire!


Please return the questionnaire by Tuesday, March 3rd (we need to receive it by the close of business that day). You can FAX your questionnaire to (907) 258-6177, or MAIL it to 810 N St., Suite 203, Anchorage, AK 99501, or send it via EMAIL to caitlin@akvoice.org.