What has the candidate done in the past?   What will the candidate do in the future?

During my first term on the City Council:

Accomplishments

• Revitalized the Public Library System
• Opened two new Fire Stations
• Increased Police and Fire Personnel
• Opened the Soccer Park
• The Cypress Ave. Bridge project in progress
• Widening of South Bonneyview
• Widening of Churn Creek Road
• Removed the roof from Downtown Mall
• Began Phase One work on the Stillwater Business Park

In The Future:

Challenges-Opportunities

• Continue improving the Downtown area, work to attract a first run movie theatre.
  Encourage outside dining and open green spaces to encourage pedestrians.
• Fiscal Responsibility
  I will work to maintain the 10 year Budget Plan, assure a minimum 5% reserve. I will not commit to one-time money, to on-going costs.
• Avoid Sprawl
  Encourage in-fill development
• Growth
  Growth should pay for its self and traffic circulation.

Redding will have a revitalized thriving downtown core, traffic that moves smoothly, clean air and open spaces.

A vibrant, prosperous business community, which will provide good paying jobs.  The cultural environment, museums, theaters, and recreation will grow to meet the people’s needs.

I want a Redding that my grandchildren and yours will be proud to call home.

Dick Dickerson is a native of Colorado, who following his discharge from the United States Army, settled in Southern California to begin a thirty-year career in Law Enforcement.

In 1986 he was sent to Redding, by the California Department of Justice, to organize and command the Shasta Interagency Narcotic Task Force (SINTIF).

Following retirement in 1993 he was appointed, by Governor Pete Wilson, to the Shasta County Board of Supervisors and later was elected to serve a four-year term.

In 1998 he was elected to the California State Assembly. During the four years in the Assembly he served as Chairman of Assembly Veterans Committee, Vice Chairman of the Public Safety Committee, and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife. Dick fought to return local control to the counties and cities.

In the Redding community he has twice served as Chairman of the United Way Campaign. In addition he is a past president of the Shasta County Peace Officers Association, served on the Board of Directors of the Redding Rodeo Association and the Emergency Services Foundation. He is a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion and is currently the Chairman of the Youth Violence Prevention Council.

He was elected to the Redding City Council in 2004, serving as Mayor in 2007. He and his wife Betty, two children and five grandchildren are proud to call Redding home.