CITY OF FAIRVIEW - City Council Position #6
DARRELL CORNELIUS
OCCUPATION: Attorney (Currently on inactive status)
OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Circuit Court Arbitrator; Attorney practicing in public employee collective bargaining, labor and employment law, employee benefit law
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: University of Oregon School of Law, Doctor of Jurisprudence; University of Oregon, Bachelor of Science in Political Science; Central Catholic High School, Diploma
PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: Fairview City Councilor; Fairview Budget Committee; Circuit Court Arbitrator; Oregon State Bar Association activities: Ethics Committee, Ethics Trial Board Member, Fee Dispute Arbitrator, Trial and Appellate Counsel and Labor Law Committee
Community Experience: President and Executive Board member of Fairview Village Homeowner's Association.
Personal: Lifetime resident of Multnomah County. Fairview resident since 1997. Widower. Deceased wife was Lidiya Cornelius who taught at Clackamas Web Academy.
Darrell L. Cornelius stands for these ideals, principles and goals:
---Financial Responsibility. Fairview is fortunate to have financial reserves. We should keep them for unexpected future emergencies. Our annual expenditures should not exceed annual revenues. The current City budget projects expenses to exceed income and uses reserve funds to balance the budget. I will resist the future use of reserve funds for any purposes other than unexpected emergencies.
---Business Development. In these difficult financial times, some of our existing City businesses are suffering financial shortfalls. The City should make a greater effort to promote our business citizens. The vacant land in our City Center and on Halsey Street needs to be developed. The City should develop a plan to attract new businesses. We should not be discouraged because of the current recession.
---Police. Our police chief and city administrator believe we need to increase our police protection. Under the current economic conditions, the City cannot afford to hire additional officers. If it is determined our citizens are in danger, we need to consider other alternatives(i.e. placing video cameras in areas where most crimes occur, consolidating police services with neighboring jurisdictions, increasing citizen involvement).
(This information furnished by Darrell Cornelius)
The above information has not been verified for accuracy by Multnomah County.