Three qualified individuals are running for Rehoboth Beach commissioner this summer. Throughout our neighborhoods and business areas, most citizens seek the candidate as the best one to choose elected.
Over many years, I have learned these election choices do well by reconsidering the values of Save Our City. The SOC is a basic citizens' group created many years ago less structure, just hopes and ideas. The basic message of SOC was written by many citizens and set concise and clear language and it was well enough that has required no changes since.
I hope you will give the SOC message a new reading - http://www.saveourcityrehoboth.org/statement-of-purpose.html. The message directs no specific orders; rather it speaks basic values and broad principles for the public participation to support governance of our admired Rehoboth city. For example, one of our retiring long-term commissioners, Patrick Gosset, was knowledgeable about SOC. Patrick was and is a superb personal and skilled individual who has been for years an extraordinary leader of our city. There have been more leaders, and still now. You will know them as you see them.
Patrick has been a winner as a thoughtful, balanced, civil and fair representative. I urge possible voters to remember SOC's values and consider its ideas about your important vote for your new Rehoboth Beach commissioner this August.
I believe we have a fine new candidate in Gary Glass who can be the kind of commissioner like SOC ideas or Patrick's example. Please compare the SOC message with Gary's specific prior experience, his reasonable future goals and his belief of an active, thorough process for establishing decisions.
You will surely meet Gary since he is super-active meeting at your houses and speaking for everyone. Gary is committed to the city's comprehensive planning, the process for active public participation, and doing the detailed research and public information building important decisions. Gary has built a nationwide career for evaluating community projects – just what we now need the most.
He supports the city's diverse interests in our communities and neighborhoods, and he understands and is careful to balance special economic interests rising in residential neighborhoods especially. For the long term, Gary is dedicated to improving Rehoboth's long-term planning process and supporting our public-based city governance with a balanced agenda.
Overall, Gary Glass is certainly an independent and accomplished person and he understands the solid values and principles of the kind of leaders of the city. I hope he will serve as commissioner well and long.
Guy Martin
Rehoboth Beach
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