01Will you vote to restore twice-monthly regular council meetings? (This requires only a council resolution — three votes could do it at any meeting.)
02Will you vote to commission a truly independent, external investigation of the police department's complaint-handling practices, with authority to review records and interview personnel?
03Will you direct staff to present a full public accounting of every Measure JJ promise made in 2016 against actual results — pension payoff, the $20 million in savings, reserves, the stabilization fund, and the Utility Users Tax?
04Will you vote to repeal the two-member consent requirement for placing items on the council agenda?
05Will you support posting all campaign finance filings on the city website, as neighboring cities already do?
06Did you support or oppose Measure W, and did you or your campaign receive support from any sitting council member or their family?
07Will you commit to never spending General Fund money on consultants to draft or promote ballot measures that extend council members' own tenure — and to disclosing, in any city-funded material about a future measure, every provision that benefits sitting incumbents?
08Before approving any future promotion of a near-retirement employee into a higher-paid position, will you require a public staff report disclosing the projected lifetime pension cost of that promotion?
09Do you believe the City Manager should be an independent professional administrator rather than a former council colleague — and will you support recruiting professional city management for future vacancies?
These questions are drawn directly from documented gaps in the public record described above. They are offered so voters can ask their own questions of candidates — not as an implied answer.