San Mateo County, California sent this bulletin at 12/23/2024 11:57 AM PST
Dec. 23, 2024
For Immediate Release
Warren Slocum’s Legacy: Dream Big, Act Locally
Redwood City — In January 2013, a man in work clothes splattered with paint waited to talk to Warren Slocum, freshly elected to a seat representing District 4on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors.
As the crowd at Slocum’s swearing-in ceremony thinned, he asked if Slocum could address a safety issue: on the way to school, his young daughter confronted an obstacle course of power poles, cracks and garbage cluttering primordial sidewalks.
“I’ve thought about that gentleman every day,” Slocum said recently. “He’s been my North Star, so to speak, that guided my work.”
Nearly a dozen years later, Slocum has achieved much of what he set out to accomplish: delivering the promise of a responsive local government to residents whose main concerns are the health and safety of their families.
The reconstruction of Middlefield Road and its sidewalks – the path the man’s daughter took to school – attests to his commitment to that promise as his third and final supervisorial term closes out.
