Mario Diprisco (Lafayette City Council At-large, California, candidate 2024)
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Mario Diprisco ran in a special election to the Lafayette City Council At-large in California. He was on the ballot in the special general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Diprisco completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Mario Diprisco provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 12, 2024:
- Birth date: November 18, 1975
- Birth place: San Francisco, California
- High school: San Francisco University High School
- Bachelor's: Georgetown University, 1997
- Gender: Male
- Profession: Investment Manager
- Prior offices held:
- City Councilmember (2000-2002)
- Incumbent officeholder: No
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Elections
General election
Special general election for Lafayette City Council At-large
Jim Cervantes and Mario Diprisco ran in the special general election for Lafayette City Council At-large on November 5, 2024.
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Election results
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mario Diprisco completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Diprisco's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I’m running for city council because I love our city and believe it’s worth fighting for. The risk from fire and congested streets threatens our quality of life today and the regional housing shortage and affordability crisis makes it hard for our children to imagine building a life here. We need a council that has the courage to make difficult decisions to preserve our present and safeguard our future.
I have previous councilmember experience in Albany, CA and a 26-year career of successful investing in public companies. My work in investment management helped millions of people have more for retirement. It’s also shown me what business models work and which don’t. To work effectively, Lafayette City Council must respond to threats like homeowners losing insurance, spend our resources wisely and address current problems like traffic on Pleasant Hill and Moraga Road.
www.diprisco.org offers specific proposals to reduce our risk from fire, lower the cost of construction, and build Affordable Housing in a smarter manner.- Our city can do more to reduce the risk of serious vegetation fire through more investment in sensors and CALAlert cameras. We can clear more defensible space in areas of particular risk and we can hard-wire evacuation sirens for our most vulnerable neighborhoods so that people can evacuate safely even if mobile phone networks fail. There are lots of technological solutions to reduce our risk and we should boldly explore using all we can.
- We need to get our fiscal house in order. The City has been in a structural deficit for the last three years and has used the benefit of a number of windfalls to nominally balance the budget. This $7-8m sum of "one-offs" have run out and now our citizens are being asked to approve a sales tax increase to close the gap between revenues and expenditures. We need a task force to look into growing revenues and/or reducing expenses because even if Measure H passes, it is only for 7 years.
- Sacramento has burdened our city (and all of California) with unfunded mandates and a daunting legal hurdle in terms of permitting housing. We must fulfill our requirements under our Housing Element in a manner that least undermines the qualities that make Lafayette a desirable place to live. We can build Affordable Housing in places that don't increase traffic in our most congested areas and we can allow for smart growth that the whole community can support.
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See also
2024 Elections
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