League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Santa Clara County, CA November 8, 2005 Election
	Victor Frost Answers Questions Candidate for Council Member; City of Palo Alto

Questions & Answers

1. What specific steps would you support to balance the financial needs of the city with a changing regional business climate and potential effects on the quality of life in the area?

We must have an employment development program that works and can offer day labor for residents, both housed and homeless, so they can put money on the kitchen table at the end of the day for the wife and kids, and also to pay property taxes and the mortgage. (I lost my Eichler home and my wife.) Jobs, work is our issue now!

2. What are your priorities with regard to the balance of neighborhood issues and the broader needs of all Palo Alto?

Big question. In this issue we get into constitutional law and residents' constitutional rights. Already there has been too much money spent on this issue -- city vs. people. Where is the line? I feel it is the property line. Palo Alto's new disaster relief plan can be integrated with a shelter to serve the needs of everyone along with the homeless, and provide storage as well.

3. Where do you stand on the goal of retaining socio-economic diversity in Palo Alto, and if you support that goal, what steps would you take to achieve it?

Again, this is a question of constitutionality and equal rights. Palo Alto, California, and the United States are becoming a melting pot. Some can't accept this, but it is happening. What steps? It's on its own way.