Candidates' Video Debate

For Sonoma County Supervisor: 5th District

All four candidates were provided the questions in advance, as well as the Sonoma County Attainable Housing Coalition's solution (click here to read). Candidate Tom Lynch declined to participate in the three week video debate scheduling timeline.

  • Questions
  • 1:   Do you support a zoning and code variance for the creation, during the next 15 years, of up to 15,000 Auxiliary Dwelling Units to be rent controlled at under $900 per month?
  • Answers
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 2:   Do you support an amendment to the upcoming Community Separator ballot initiative to allow the creation of small clusters of Community Land Trust homes cost controlled at under $200,000 per unit on 5% of the privately owned land near our cities?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 3:   Do you support a zoning variance to allow the creation of small clusters of Community Land Trust homes cost controlled at under $200,000 per unit on 1% of privately owned land currently zoned as rural residential or agricultural?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 4:   Do you support the current Initiative to ban GMO planting in Sonoma County?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 5:   Would you support a ban on Roundup and other glyphosate-related herbicides?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 6:   Would you support fluoridation for the County water system? Why or why not?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 7:   After developing one of the most successful composting systems in the country, Sonoma Compost was forced to close last year. What, if anything, would you have done differently than our current Supervisors to prevent its closing and what will you do in the future to reopen it?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 8:   Would you support the spending of about $1.2 million in General Funds to restore Monday hours to all branches of the Sonoma County Library system, which for the past five years have been closed Mondays for the first time in history due to a funding crisis?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 9:   Do you support the Dairyman winery project?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 10:   Do you believe we should have a “peace dividend” in the County’s prosecution of victimless marijuana crimes? Specifically, do you think people on parole who test positive for marijuana should be returned to County jail, as they are today?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 11:   Would you support a County funding contribution to assist the small community based Sonoma West Medical Center provide emergency room care to indigent patients?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent

  • 12:   What are the three top reasons why citizens should vote for you to be our next Supervisor?
  • Noreen Evans

  • Lynda Hopkins

  • Marion Chase

  • Tim Sergent