GREEK PARK
Drainage + tree safety
- Fix gutter wastewater pooling.
- Add or repair curb cuts / drainage.
- Coordinate arborist + utility work on the large tree near neighboring lines.
- Maintenance and safety before cosmetics.
WHAT I WOULD ACTUALLY WORK ON
Less boilerplate.
More park-by-park work.
The Recreation and Park District's job is concrete. So is my programme.
SUEÑO DOG PARK
Routine hazard control
- Fill mole holes before they become injuries.
- Permanent shovel + rake on site.
- Small locked tool shed.
- Regular inspection routine.
- Recruit users into stewardship.
ROCK-CLIMBING BOULDER
Put safety on the calendar
- Torque / tightness checks for holds.
- Maintain wood-chip landing area.
- Set inspection intervals.
- Treat it as safety work, not just programming.
FOOD FOREST
Make volunteering concrete
- Recruit UCSB groups + long-term residents.
- Scheduled stewardship days.
- Defined plots and tasks.
- Use the volunteer programme we already have.
ANISQ’OYO / AMPHITHEATER
Preserve the public asset
- Oppose removing the amphitheater for commercial frontage.
- Preserve stage, restrooms and gathering space.
- Any redesign should preserve amphitheater function first.
BOARD REFORM
Board membership is work
- Attendance.
- Committee participation.
- Preparation.
- Clear tracking of prolonged absences.
- Competent government strengthens Isla Vista's case for more self-government.
MEET GEOF
Long-term local. Daily park user.
Isla Vista resident for more than a decade
Attending IVRPD meetings since about 2015
Involved in the process that created IVCSD
Writer, musician, advocate and outdoorsman
Years of skiing, climbing and hiking
Daily familiarity with Isla Vista parks
PARKS ARE COMMUNITY
Use them. Maintain them. Invite people in.
- Expand IVRPD stewardship participation.
- Use park events to build community and raise funds.
- Bring students and long-term residents into hands-on projects.
- Make volunteer jobs specific enough that people know where they are useful.
A LIFE OUTDOORS
Recreation is not an abstraction to me.
PUBLIC HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICE
A record beyond parks.
- Worked with Rev. Douglas J. Miller through the Community Health Initiative.
- Public-health advocacy during the UCSB meningitis B outbreak.
- Urged FDA authorization of investigational use of a meningitis B vaccine.
- Hygiene and infectious-disease outreach for unhoused residents.
- Public service years before this campaign.
IN THE NEWS
CAMPAIGN SUMMARY OF THE COVERAGE
Everhard reaches final round in IVCSD appointment process
The article reports that, after interviews and first-round voting, the Board narrowed the appointment to Noah Luken and Jeffrey D. Everhard.
“institutional memory”
The Nexus reported that Everhard emphasized the institutional memory he would bring from his involvement in the creation of the IVCSD.
THE PROGRAMME
More detail where it belongs.
The full Programme expands the cards above into a park-by-park and issue-by-issue agenda:
- Greek Park drainage + utility coordination
- Sueño Dog Park hazards + tools
- Climbing boulder inspections
- Food Forest stewardship
- Camino Pescadero beach access
- Pelican Park graffiti
- Anisq’Oyo amphitheater
- Unhoused residents + outreach
- Children’s Park funding gap
- Measure O successor
- Grants + fundraising
- Board reform + self-government