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Barbara Bleiweis

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Barbara Bleiweis
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Mecklenburg Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors
Tenure

2017 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

8

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 8, 2022

Appointed

2017

Education

Bachelor's

University of Maryland, College Park, 1978

Personal
Birthplace
Honolulu, Hawaii
Religion
Presbyterian
Profession
Government

Barbara Bleiweis is a member of the Mecklenburg Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors in North Carolina. She assumed office in 2017. Her current term ends in 2026.

Bleiweis ran for re-election to the Mecklenburg Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors in North Carolina. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Bleiweis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Barbara Bleiweis was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bleiweis earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1978. Her career experience includes working in government.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Municipal elections in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (2022)

General election

General election for Mecklenburg Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors (2 seats)

Incumbent Nancy Carter and incumbent Barbara Bleiweis defeated Alonzo Hill, Hunter Wilson, and Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel in the general election for Mecklenburg Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Nancy Carter
Nancy Carter (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
32.8
 
163,998
Image of Barbara Bleiweis
Barbara Bleiweis (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
20.0
 
99,965
Image of Alonzo Hill
Alonzo Hill (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
19.1
 
95,377
Hunter Wilson (Nonpartisan)
 
16.0
 
80,183
Image of Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel
Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel (Nonpartisan)
 
11.2
 
56,112
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.9
 
4,584

Total votes: 500,219
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2018

See also: Municipal elections in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (2018)

General election

General election for Mecklenburg Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors (2 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Mecklenburg Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Nancy Carter
Nancy Carter (Nonpartisan)
 
27.3
 
138,661
Image of Barbara Bleiweis
Barbara Bleiweis (Nonpartisan)
 
21.5
 
108,898
Lilly Taylor (Nonpartisan)
 
18.6
 
94,263
David Michael Rice (Nonpartisan)
 
13.7
 
69,744
Image of Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel
Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel (Nonpartisan)
 
9.4
 
47,901
Image of Duncan St. Clair III
Duncan St. Clair III (Nonpartisan)
 
8.7
 
44,198
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.8
 
3,927

Total votes: 507,592
(100.00% precincts reporting)
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Barbara Bleiweis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bleiweis' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I am passionate about protecting our natural resources that provide our food, conserve and our land, and service the health of our people. The Soil and Water Conservation Districts ( SWCD) through the delivery of voluntary, locally led programs allow me to do this. I find joy in working with and through others who share the similar vision of protecting land and water for current AND future generations. In my five years of serving on the SWCD Board, I have been honored to represent North Carolina in several national leadership cohorts which further prepare me to advance conservation policies at the national level. The conservation world has embraced me and I, in turn, hope to pay it forward, helping young people to love conservation action-- not simply advocacy but to actively promote and implement conservation in their own back yards, in their cities and counties. The conservation world has help me make conservation personal, and to recognize the power of a single conservation act, can have a multiplier effect on a family, a school, a community and a city. The possibilities do good, to make difference are endless.
  • Agriculture, in all its forms, should be promoted and protected as a top priority
  • Agricultural land is working land and support food, fuel and fiber that is the substance of our daily live
  • conservation is personal. One person, one family, one community can make a huge difference
Locally led conservation of our soil, air and water. Providing funding and resources to educate and motivate conservation minded folks can have a dramatic impact on keeping our streams clean and healthy which in turn impacts our drinking water. These same policies can impact new neighborhoods that can be designed to integrate more trees and farms as amenities- key environmental features that benefit the health of our residents as well as the environment. I am especially passionate about holistic policies that recognize the integrated relationship between air, soil and water health, and how agriculture serves as a model of this relationship. For this reason, agriclutural policy and protecting farmland and farmers is paramount.
Influential people in my life include my grandparents, my mom and dad, my late husband and my children. I see the passing down of important values over generations. The Values of being best friends with your family as a key to success has played out over the generations. I am blessed to have been able to take care of my parents in the last months and provide for them as they did for me in so many ways. Through them, I hope to pass on the same values of caring for the elderly as caring for the newest and youngest generations. They taught me the importance of giving back- of doing as much good as one can and to do so with joy and no expectation of recognition. Service to others is something I have experienced through church as well as youth sports. I find great joy in helping others succeed and the church as well as sports has allowed me to do this. I have benefitted from managers, coaches and other trusted friends and improved my understanding of how to connect with others in a manner that facilitates mutual understanding and a desire to work together. The list of these mentors is long and names of folks who are not on the national radar. These folks demonstrated a combination of skills, including the ability to actively listen and take the time to understand before acting. I continue to learn to do this. It is an ongoing challenge and the beauty of the journey in public service.
A Sand County Almanac- helps one view the land as a partner in life and not something to be owned or dominated;
The Sixth Extinction,- helped me understand that humans are destroying our ecosystems and that this is evidenced in ways that we cannot immediately see, but scientists can. The loss of species that we cannot see, but are integral to the ecosystem food chain, will and has impacted our ability to grow food, maintain clean water supply and clean. air. and My Grandfathers Blessings- illuminated the role of individual choices to help others and see ourselves as servants to others - in compassionate ways.
Active Listening and seeking to understand before being understood. I believe in the dignity of the individual and that any program and policy must recognize and respect differences. Elected officials should recognize their behavior is always in the public eye 24x7 and that officials are expected to behave professionally at all times.
The Soil and Water Conservation District role is to connect people to their land and water-- and to do so in a way to makes conservation relevant to their daily lives. To that end, finding ways to introduce conservation practices from the very simple to the very complex is critical. Too often, we focus on the very complicated implementations of conservation. These practices have an enormous positive impact on the community but it they are too complicated to understand and not as visible as other practices, then the work of the District appears irrelevant to residents. Residents equate conservation with recycling or rain barrels-- both are important, but there is much more that we accomplish and it is key for residents to understand where their tax dollars and stormwater fees are being spent. For this reason, another core responsibility for the Districts is to connect our work to county and municipal programs that perform related functions and work through them to educate the public on our complementary role. In addition, a District Supervisor has responsibility to understand the role we play in state, regional and national conservation. While we are an independent entity from a governance standpoint, we do not act alone, per se. We have at our disposal a team of engineering and environmental resources to assist in implementation, education and outreach. Leveraging those resources makes a significant difference in how effective we are in serving the public.
Sales Representative, Honeywell Information Systems, Federal Systems Operations. That was the beginning of a 34plus year career in professional sales and business development. I worked for Honeywell for 7 years.

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 14, 2022