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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - With the countdown connected until the Nov. 5 General Election, YourCentralValley.com is taking an wrong look astatine each race.
In Fresno County District 2, voters volition determine who volition correspond them connected the Board of Supervisors successful a contention betwixt incumbent Steve Brandau and Fresno City Councilmember Garry Bredefeld.
We caught up with each campaigner to find retired much astir their experience, and wherefore they deliberation they're the champion prime to correspond the district.
Incumbent Steve Brandau has served connected the Board of Supervisors' District 2 spot since helium was elected successful 2019. Brandau, a tiny concern owner, besides antecedently represented District 6 connected the Fresno City Council.
"There's each kinds of areas wherever being a concern proprietor brings thing to the array and the decisions that we marque upstairs," said Brandau.
Now sitting successful Brandau's erstwhile spot connected Fresno City Council, is Garry Bredefeld, who has served arsenic the District 6 Councilmember since 2017. Bredefeld is simply a retired Navy lieutenant and objective psychologist.
"I'm a beardown dependable for the radical I represent. I ne'er hide that I'm representing them and we request that benignant of leadership," helium said.
Both men are conservatives who hold powerfully successful backing instrumentality enforcement and accidental they would some purpose to steer Measure C dollars toward roadworthy repair if the ballot measurement is renewed successful the coming years.
Each campaigner was asked what main issues they would prioritize if elected to the region board.
Brandau says if reelected, helium would propulsion to make recreational abstraction for residents, similar connected the San Joaquin River. He says, connected the different hand, economical improvement would besides beryllium a priority. His program for that would see turning his yearslong imaginativeness of a 3,000-acre concern parkland wrong Fresno County into a reality.
"I've taken the pb connected that. My colleagues person been supportive, so, close present it's unanimous support. We privation to get an concern parkland built successful Fresno County. A batch of hard work, but it would employment 40,000 radical astatine afloat buildout."
Bredefeld says his main priorities would beryllium to summation transparency with the nationalist connected committee votes and actions, actions helium says would see the budget. Additionally, helium plans to proceed enactment connected the stateless crisis, a situation helium claims Fresno County has taken a backseat to, particularly erstwhile it comes to moving with its cities, peculiarly the metropolis of Fresno.
"The Board of Supervisors has the Department of Social Services, the Department of Public Health, City of Fresno doesn't person that," said Bredefeld. "They've not been a spouse with the City of Fresno. The City of Fresno had to woody with the homelessness and each those wraparound services that we supply without the assistance of the county."
In response, Brandau says helium has served with some the metropolis and region and helium sees the disconnect, arsenic helium credited "dramatically" antithetic opinions connected issues similar homelessness.
However, helium promised nary substance what, helium would ever beryllium consenting to person a conversation.
"I've got endorsements from large Democrats that I've worked with, Libertarians that I've worked with, radical that travel together," said Brandau. "They person antithetic viewpoints than me. I tin beryllium down astatine a table, person a rational speech with them, not telephone them names, not onslaught their manner and truly beforehand the ball."
Bredefeld, explaining wherefore helium should beryllium connected the board, says those elected to positions of powerfulness person to beryllium "fearless". He tells maine the committee is owed for a shake-up, arsenic helium promised to bring the region and each of its cities together.
"They vest successful a status system, it becomes a status club. That's not what Garry Bredefeld believes in," helium said. "And so, I'm going to proceed to combat for the radical astatine the region level, go a spouse with the cities, that has not happened, and we volition articulation unneurotic and bash a batch of large things."
