KennyMayes4Wildomar

Politics is a dirty business Wildomar, but I don't have to tell you that. We all see it on the news everyday. The swamp is dark and deep all around us. The most insidious form of political corruption is campaign donation money used to buy political influence. I have not asked for or taken one penny of campaign donation money and I never will. I wouldn't be asking for your vote if I was not absolutely positive that I'd be able to represent your interest and not ever the i...nterest of dirty political money. The people of Wildomar need to know how much money candidates spend getting elected and who that money comes from. As of today I have spent $491.48 on the signs you see around town. I am planning to spend an additional $150 on campaign flyers. All money spent has been my own. I challenge my opponent, Mrs. Bridgette Moore to publish right here the following: 1. The total amount of campaign money received 2. Who the money came from 3. How much money has been spent 4. Where that money was spent I think that's a fair and reasonable request.

Many people living in outlying areas of Wildomar don't have a Wildomar address. In fact Wildomar has 795 parcels of land with zip codes ranging from Menifee, Sun City, Romoland, Winchester, Murrieta, Temecula and even Perris! We can and should have solved this problem twelve years ago but here we are today. Let's get to work for Wildomar. A plan to bring every parcel in Wildomar into a Wildomar zip code doesn't need to be complicated. We already know who's affected because... we asked the postmaster to report this information 5 years ago! The next step is to mail the people living at these addresses and announce our intention to bring them into Wildomar zip codes, and then ask them if that's what they want. Too often in Wildomar our elected officials tell us what we're getting instead of asking us what we want and that needs to stop. Once we've heard from the people and address their concerns then we establish a reasonable timeline to make this change happen. We coordinate with the postmaster and the residents on this because we need to make sure that all the paperwork is filed properly and that all the residents have the time and documentation they need to change their addresses without imposing an undue burden on these good people of Wildomar. If elected I intend to make this initiative a priority in Wildomar that can be accomplished within one year. Every person living in Wildomar should have an address in Wildomar. It's a reasonable expectation and an attainable goal that would benefit all of Wildomar.

William Collier and Donald Graham, the founders of Wildomar laid out the original town map and submitted it to the County of San Diego where it was accepted in November of 1886. Maple Street is on the map. An original Wildomar public road that my opponent on the City Council refuses to take responsibility for. How can we the people of Wildomar refuse to repair and maintain the roads laid out by the very founders of our town?

We don't post about it every week but we're out and about in Wildomar cleaning up roadsides all over District 4. Have a great Sunday!

Wildomar is home to many fine local businesses. Restaurants, country markets, auto shops, barber & beauty shops, donut shops, a working dairy farm, and many more work hard every day for people of Wildomar. Local business is the engine of the Wildomar economy and we the people should do everything we can to keep our business local. I propose the government of Wildomar do the following: 1. Immediately reduce the business registration fee to $25 for all existing and new busin...esses. 2. Update the city website to allow business owners to submit business registration applications and renewals online. 3. Allow simple business registrations to be completed with a single application and be approved the same day. 4. Setup a voluntary auto renewal option for business licenses. I believe that these simple changes will make Wildomar more business friendly immediately. The best thing any government can do is get out of the way so that business owners can spend their time serving their customers instead of hacking and slashing through through miles of unnecessary red tape. #WildomarNeeds #LocalBusiness @kennymayes4wildomar Music: Crying In My Beer Musician: Jason Shaw URL: https://audionautix.com

I think the people of Wildomar should think about building a new Fire Station instead of trying to emergency repair Station 61. The existing fire station is a converted house, and it's a 40 year old house at that. Expensive repairs and upgrades are going to continue to happen; at this moment the Station 61 septic tank system is failing and that problem is going to cost the people of Wildomar good money to solve. After that something else is going break. It's an old house. ... Wildomar often chooses the quick fix over the right fix and it costs a truckload of your money in the long run. That old house has been good to Wildomar. Our Fire Department has saved this town for years and years. It worked fine when the town only had 6,000 people and most of them were Volunteer Firefighters that lived in town and not the Fire House. That's not the case now. We've got 8 fire fighters living and working in that old house. That's cramped! The center of town has shifted since the 1970s and the Fire Station isn't in the middle of town anymore. Remember that we've only got the one and it covers 23.7 square miles! It takes them more time to respond to one side of town over the other. That shouldn't be. Wildomar isn't the same place that it was back then and we need a new Fire House. Now that would have been expensive without a doubt. A new Fire House constructed would cost at least $4,000,000, but I believe that Wildomar would qualify for and could have received big time state and federal assistance in relocating and building a new Fire Station to replace our old one. Those could have been grants, zero or low interest federally backed loans. We would have also qualified for private Fire House construction grants available from individuals, endowments, and even Fire Safety Non Profit Grants. Any way that we decide to fund the new construction it will be more affordable long term than to keep doing emergency repair work on the old house to make it do something it was never intended to do. We live in live in a very dry town surrounded by very dry mountains. We need a new and improved Fire Station to support our Fire Fighters who protect this community 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Wildomar roads are in bad shape and we need to work together to fix them. Today I want to focus on our dirt roads because dirt roads are the veins of Wildomars' rural heart and history. It's also a problem that's small enough for us to solve immediately and it's an affordable investment of the peoples' money that will be good for Wildomar. Wildomar needs to purchase a small road grading machine. Nothing fancy! No satellite radio or expensive Wildomar paint job. Just a simp...le reliable machine. Then we need to hire a qualified operator. Best case scenario this would be a real person of Wildomar. We outsource a lot of work in Wildomar and we shouldn't. The people of Wildomar should always get first shot at any city job/contract. I firmly believe that we the people of Wildomar can pay for this with existing Measure AA funds. No cost to the General Budget of Wildomar at all. The people of Wildomar passed Measure AA for exactly this purpose and we already have the money. Now we've got the equipment and the employee and we send them to work! Every day they head out and do basic repair and maintenance of Wildomar dirt roads. Nothing fancy! Just smoothing the surface and maintaining proper water drainage. A little maintenance would keep our roads from becoming impassible during our rainy season for many Wildomar people and make them more enjoyable to drive on every other day of the year. We could even deploy our machine and operator to help in emergency situations such as flash flooding or wild fire that threatens Wildomar or our neighbors. This would be much better and cheaper than renting equipment and operators at emergency rates which is how we're handling these situations right now. Wildomar needs to think about the future and start making good decisions that will still be good decisions 12 years from now. #WildomarNeeds #RoadRepair #FiscalResponsibility #aPlan4theFuture @kennymayes4wildomar

Here we go again Wildomar! Another project that ran 3x over budget while roads collapse all over our community because we can't "afford" to fix them. Wildomar needs Budget Reform. If elected to serve the people of Wildomar District 4 I will put forward a comprehensive set of fiscal reforms. They will include: 1. Requirement for the City of Wildomar to publish the complete budget of every project with a budget greater than $25,000 in plain English on the City website.... 2. Requirement for the Wildomar City Manager to certify under penalty of perjury the budget for each project that exceeds $25,000 is accurate to the best of their knowledge. 3. Requirement that any project that goes 10% over its original budget automatically summons the City Manager to appear in person at a public meeting of the Wildomar City Council to: A. Provide a detailed explanation of why the project is over budget in plain English. B. Provide a detailed list of corrective measures that have been taken to assure the project in question and future projects do not go over budget. C. Answer public questions regarding the project budget asked by the good people of Wildomar. City staff and elected officials in Wildomar make financial decisions that affect you, your children, and your grandchildren and they should be held accountable when those decisions are wrong. I'll be back to tomorrow with another Wildomar project budget that spiraled out of control and to provide more details of my Budget Reform Initiatives. #NoMoore #Time4Change #WildomarNeeds #FiscalResponsibility #BudgetReform @kennymayes4wildomar

Here is another example of why Wildomar never seems to have any money to fix anything. The projects that are approved by the City Council routinely go over budget. Actual project costs are often 2x to 3x the originally budgeted amount. Fire Station 61 in Wildomar requested money to remodel their kitchen in 2017. The City Council approved a budget of $40,000 and started the process of accepting contractor bids. Two years later in January 2019 the project had not even started... but the estimated costs had ballooned by $55,000 (more than 2x the original estimate). Wildomar didn't have the money to afford this so we borrowed it with interest to be paid back over 3 years. By March of 2019 the City Council was ready to approve the contract and they did, with an additional $20,000 in expenses. At this point the original project which was supposed to cost the good people of Wildomar $40,000 was now a contract for $111,398.00. That's a nearly 3x increase. In September of 2019 the remodel project was completed. Did we stay on budget this time? Not a chance! The final bill to be paid by the good people of Wildomar was $124,339.00. That's 3 times higher than the original estimate voted and approved by the City Council. Wildomar needs Fiscal Responsibility and it starts with budget reform. Tomorrow I'm going to breakdown another Wildomar project budget and provide the details of my Budget Reform Initiative. We can solve this problem Wildomar, but we can't do it by pretending it doesn't exist. Together we can build the bright future that the good people of Wildomar have worked their entire lives for and deserve. #NoMoore #Time4Change #WildomarNeeds #BudgetReform #FiscalResponsibility @kennymayes4wildomar

Wildomar needs term limits for all elected officials. Two terms is 8 years and that's more than enough time. Politics is not supposed to be a career. Three of Wildomar's five City Council Members have been in office for 10 years or more. Two of those were the only candidates on the ballot in their last election and my opponent was appointed by the Council in 2016 and not elected by the people of Wildomar. Now the City Council will tell you that this is all YOUR FAULT. They'...ll tell you that no one will run against them because the good people of Wildomar are apathetic, they just don't care. That's not true! Many people of Wildomar who would be excellent Council Members will not run for election because they don't want to fight a powerful incumbent. A politician deeply entrenched in the machine of government with a war chest of campaign donations from who knows where who will outspend, out publicize, and out selfie anyone who stands against them. Term limits solve this problem in a single stroke. Every 8 years a seat is open for anyone who wants to run. Every person who runs for that seat starts on equal footing. No incumbent. No career politicians. Fresh candidates bring fresh eyes, fresh ideas, and fresh perspectives; all things that Wildomar desperately needs. I believe that term limits will be an absolute good for the people of Wildomar. If elected I pledge to bring a vote on term limits to the people of Wildomar. This is our city and everyone deserves to be heard. I'll close this message today with a quote: "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth -Abraham Lincoln #WildomarNeeds #TermLimits #NotCareerPoliticians #ItsTime4Change #kennymayes4wildomar

This is one example of why Wildomar is struggling to stay afloat while neighboring cities thrive. Lopsided contracts negotiated for city services have hogtied the city budget, leaving us with not enough money to repair and maintain our roads. There is no reason why the good people of Wildomar should watch the city of Menifee, which was born in 2008 just like us thrive and grow while we rattle and bump along Wildomar Trail like pioneers in covered wagons. Wildomar doesn't ...need more parties, logos, name changes, market research, or special interest projects. Wildomar doesn't need leaders who just want to take pictures standing next to big wigs or keep seats warm on big government committees that talk a lot and do little. Wildomar needs leaders who serve the people of Wildomar. Leaders who fight for the people of Wildomar when negotiating with neighboring communities. Wildomar needs leaders who will scrutinize every contract and budget to make sure that the people of Wildomar are getting a square deal. Leaders who are focused on the most essential functions of a city which are public safety and maintaining roads while not wasting taxpayers money. Stand up Wildomar. Stand up and fight for the better life that you have earned. "The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. -John Maxwell It's time to adjust the sails Wildomar and it starts right here in District 4. Vote Kenny Mayes 4 Wildomar. #NoMoore #Time4Change #WildomarNeeds #Truth #Transparency #FiscalResponsibility

Kenny Mayes cares about all of the people of Wildomar including those lost to mental illness and drug addiction. These sons and daughters of Wildomar are often called "the homeless" but that's not entirely accurate. Many of these people have lived in and around Wildomar for decades and they have deep roots in the community going back generations. For several years Kenny Mayes has been a supporter of the SWAG organization and is a trained volunteer in the County of Riversi...de's Point-in-Time program to count and provide services to these sons and daughters of Wildomar. Kenny Mayes is a man of quiet but passionate action, not for public attention and adulation but because he's seen this local problem explode into a crisis for years while the Wildomar City Council fails to act to protect it's people. Kenny Mayes believes that the people of Wildomar can and should reach out a helping hand to these lost sons and daughters of Wildomar. However, Kenny Mayes does not believe that the City of Wildomar should become a place for all the cities of this valley (Murrieta, Temecula, Menifee, etc.) to abandon it's own lost sons and daughters the way our freeway offramp has become a dumping ground for the valley's freeway construction debris without the consent of it's people and while shouldering more than it's fair share of the expense and damage to Wildomar's rural tranquility. #WildomarNeeds to put #WildomarFirst for it's #WildomarSonsandDaughters (Note: This post was written by Joshua Mayes with the permission of Kenny Mayes. My father refuses to "pat himself on the back" by seeking attention for the work that he does for Wildomar. I do my duty as a son to honor the hard working and honest man that my father is. -Josh)

Very warm this morning but we still managed 10 bags of roadside trash cleaned on Corydon between Union and Grand. Over the span of 3 Sundays we've gone from the dairy all the way to Grand Ave and next week we're moving to another street. If you've got a location in District 4 that needs clean up let us know in the comments.