Wednesday, Jul. 15, 2009
Paul Teixeira to run for supervisor seat being vacated by Katcho Achadjian
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closePaul Teixeira, a county Parks Commissioner and member of the Lucia Mar School Board, will run for county supervisor in the Fourth District, seeking the job being vacated by three-term Supervisor Katcho Achadjian.
Teixeira, 53, stresses his long involvement in the community. He has lived in Nipomo for 45 years, and had a hand in many organizations beyond parks and school board.
He has worked to get Jack Ready Park up and running, for example, been involved with his five children in Future Farmers of America and 4-H, and taken part in may other community activities, he says.
Teixeira says he believes the budget and land use will be the key issues facing supervisors, and whoever serves must understand the history and context.
As a generation of farmers ages, the old-timers give the land to their children, he says, and decision-makers must be able to handle the problems that can create.
“Are these people going to farm it, do they want to develop it, and what are we going to do about that?” he asks.
Teixeira says he intends to be “honest, transparent and equitable, and adds that h “this area mean something to me” because he has spent his life here.
Teixeira graduated from Arroyo Grande High School, and attended Hancock College and Cal Poly, where he studied agricultural management. He is operations manager for an industrial parts company in Santa Maria.
Teixeira joins Arroyo Grande City Councilman Jim Guthrie and Arroyo Grande attorney Mike Zimmerman as candidates for the seat.
Achadjian is running for state assembly next year, seeking the seat being vacated by Sam Blakeslee.
The Fourth District includes Nipomo, Oceano, Arroyo Grande and a small part of the city of San Luis Obispo.
There is also a race for the Second District supervisor seat, which covers the North Coast and part of San Luis Obispo.
Incumbent Bruce Gibson has stated his intention to run again, and so far has no opponent.
The primary election is in June 2010. Should there not be a clear winner in the supervisor race -- 50 percent of the vote plus one--there will be a runoff in November.
Although the primary election is a year away, the political contests are taking shape. Besides the three candidates in the Fourth District Supervisor battle, seven people have filed to run for county Sheriff and seven for state Assembly.
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