Name: Laureen Sills
Malibu resident for: 30 Years, Point Dume neighborhood
Sills is the only candidate to have a website and Facebook page up and running for her election bid.
Originally from the Long Island Sound in Connecticut, Sills said she learned firsthand growing up in a beach town how big hotels can ruin a coastal community.
Since moving to Malibu, Sills has been active in the community, particularly Malibu schools.
Sills was involved with the fight for cityhood, co-founded People Achieving Recreation and Community Services, co-founded Advocates for Malibu Public Schools, served for five years as the governor appointee on California’s Advisory Commission for Special Education and co-founded The Malibu Special Education Foundation where she currently serves as president and has held that title since 2002.
In the past, Sills said she has been directly involved with problem-solving issues in Malibu.
“When the camera crews were outside of Malibu High, on day one of the PCB issue, I called all the groups to meet in my kitchen and we all worked on the very first letter to the superintendent to immediately move students into the safety of portables,” Sills wrote in an email to The Malibu Times.
Sills lists all of her community involvement on her website (laureensills4malibu.com).
“I am a seasoned community servant of 30 years who knows how to create bridges and not build walls, to all the different, often fighting tribes and actually get things done in Malibu,” Sills wrote.