Gets things done

Problem solver

Business & finance expert

“The best way to save Sausalito is not to try to freeze it in amber, it's to adapt to the realities of the new present. Sausalito is a vibrant creative community full of doers, makers, innovators, iconoclasts. It is not a museum piece. Let’s rekindle this creative, innovative spirt and work together to make our town better!”

— Sausalito Mayor Ian Sobieski

Endorsements

Ian has been endorsed by: the Marin Independent Journal, the Sierra Club, Congressman Jared Huffman, State Assemblyman Damon Connolly, Marin County Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters, and former Marin County Supervisors Kate Sears and Annette Rose.

Twelve former Sausalito Mayors and City Councilmembers including Annette Rose, Joan Cox, Janelle Kellman, Ron Albert, Dennis Scremin, Tom Theodores, Ray Withy, Joe Burns, Tom Reilly, Susan Cleveland-Knowles, and Peter Van Meter.

State of Sausalito & Vision for the Future

Sausalito is Poised for a Renaissance

As your current Mayor and Councilmember I have helped make positive progress in Sausalito for the past four years. To keep this going I hope you will vote for me and those that support progress.

 Sausalito is poised for a Renaissance. We’ve rebuilt our City Staff and are now ready to rebuild our City infrastructure. Policies that generate more economic activity will increase tax revenue, without raising tax rates; money which we can then spend on ourselves:  dramatically revitalizing infrastructure, supporting city services and improving quality of life.

 I helped Sausalito earn more than $1,000,000 through smarter and safer investments. I championed our first Business Improvement District and helped break the political logjam that prevented spending a $2,400,000 grant (free money!) to improve our downtown.

 I advocated an Art Center in the heart of Sausalito and extending ‘Jazz by the Bay’ into September, the month of our best weather!

 I helped hire our new City Manager and supported him in negotiating a contract that reduced staff turnover by 60% and improved morale.

 I spent my career helping more than a hundred small businesses grow, from neighborhood restaurants to high-tech startups. I bring that experience to help all of Sausalito. I also declined my City Council salary, saving you, the taxpayers, more than $10,000. My “working for free” is payback to a society that has given me, a first-generation American, so many blessings.

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