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Latest revision as of 18:57, 8 August 2024
This page was current at the end of the individual's last campaign covered by Ballotpedia. Please contact us with any updates.
Dara Royal ran for election to the Oak Island Town Council in North Carolina. Royal lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.
Royal completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2019
See also: City elections in Oak Island, North Carolina (2019)
General election
General election for Oak Island Town Council (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Oak Island Town Council on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeff Winecoff (Nonpartisan) | 19.7 | 1,479 |
| ✔ |  | Charlie Blalock (Nonpartisan) | 18.4 | 1,377 |
| ✔ |  | Sheila Mansfield Bell (Nonpartisan)  | 18.2 | 1,365 |
 | Dara Royal (Nonpartisan) | 16.7 | 1,252 | |
 | Michael Defeo (Nonpartisan) | 14.6 | 1,093 | |
 | Niki Cutler (Nonpartisan) | 12.2 | 913 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 23 | ||
| Total votes: 7,502 | |||
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Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dara Royal completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Royal'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 was born and raised in Fayetteville, NC, but Oak Island has been a part of my life since my parents bought a lot in Long Beach in 1958 when I was two years old. I now live in a house later built on the lot my parents bought, and I've been a full-time resident since moving here in 1992 from Raleigh, NC. I earned a master's degree in mathematics education from North Carolina State University in 1988, and now work part-time at Brunswick Community College as a Learning Resources Assistant/Professional Math Tutor. I am a member of Oak Island Evangelical Church where I have served as a Deacon, Elder, and Clerk of Session. As a citizen-volunteer I have served our community as a consolidation facilitator, the first chair of the Beach Preservation Society, and as a member of the Damage Assessment Team, Erosion Control Committee, Stormwater Advisory Board, and Street-end Committee. As an appointed or elected official, I have served our community as a Town Council member from November 2003 - December 2013, and again briefly from October 2017 - December 2017 to fill a temporary vacancy. In addition, I served as a Coastal Cities Representative on the NC Coastal Resources Advisory Council (CRAC) to the NC Coastal Resources Commission (makes CAMA rules) from August 2003 - June 2012 and chaired the CRAC from January 2008 - December 2010. So, I will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the council table.
- Providing Basic Services Our Residents Deserve: Yard Debris Collection; Street Repair; Stormwater Drainage; Hurricane Preparation, Evacuation, Re-entry, and Recovery; Code Enforcement.
- Maintaining/Operating Town Facilities: Rebuilding Recreation Center; developing, adopting, and implementing a comprehensive Capital Improvement Plan; Par 3 Golf Course management; in-house vs leasing Oak Island Pier Complex
- FEMA engineered beach: Eliminate Sand Tax. Voter referendum to approve any financing plan for proposed initial $40 million project followed by a $20 million project every 6 years (Expect it to cost more). No more paid parking proposals!
Providing reliable basic services at the level our residents need and deserve for enforcing codes, maintaining facilities, recovering from hurricanes, providing recreational activities, clearing stormwater drains, repairing streets, and collecting yard debris.|Conducting business and managing resources in an open, straightforward, and responsive manner.|Evaluating the short-and long-term fiscal impact of decisions.|Realizing the full potential of our government access channel to communicate with our citizens.|Amending, updating and implementing our Comprehensive Land Use Plan and Unified Development Ordinance to guide future growth.|
Local government is created, empowered, and partially funded by the state government to provide reliable basic services and to enforce a code of ordinances to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens.
Servant leadership, transparency, humility, honesty, integrity, active listening, respect those who disagree with you, graciously accept praise and criticism, learn from your mistakes, keep your promises, do your homework.
The Town of Oak Island continues to be a single-family residential community by the sea with a small-town atmosphere that values its people, cherishes its cultural heritage, maintains it recreational amenities, sustains its natural resources, and delivers reliable basic services for working families and retirees.
Watching the first televised Presidential Debate in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon with my parents when I was 4 years old.
It is beneficial for holders of this office to have previous experience in government if the lessons learned from that experience translate into providing reliable basic services and effective code enforcement by providing the resources necessary to do so in each annual budget.
Local government budgeting and accounting, analyzing short- and long-term trends in data, planning and zoning, familiarity with the authorities and powers given to local government by the state, establishing and maintaining good working relationships with all stakeholders, problem-solving, facilitating resolution of citizen requests, concerns, and complaints regarding public services.
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See also
2019 Elections
External links
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