Who’s Vying for Membership on Citizens’ Oversight Committee

The 24 candidates for membership on the citizens’ oversight committee that will monitor spending of Measure M tax funds:

Brian Bennett, Garden Grove, Southern California Edison executive; Philip Chinn, Santa Ana, engineer; Donna Lucchino, Fountain Valley, ride-share coordinator at Pacific Bell; John Stevens, Garden Grove, Santa Ana’s retired public works director; Kirk Watilo, Santa Ana, vice president of community services at Leisure World Laguna Hills.

Stanley Cohen, Huntington Beach, private investigator; Walter Hauenstein, Garden Grove, high school government teacher; Trent Harris, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach Police Department field supervisor; Peter Horton, Huntington Beach, member of the city’s Transportation Commission; Alvin Jordon, Huntington Beach, retired Rockwell International executive.

Todd Henry, Mission Viejo, law student; Susan Jackson, Placentia, bank officer; Carol Kawanami, Villa Park, member of the Consolidated Transportation Services Agency board; Leo Kmonochak Jr., Lake Forest, a Mitsubishi Electric sales manager; Diane Taylor, Brea, a Pacific Bell account executive; Lloyd Chandler, Orange, an Edison district manager; Gwendolyn McClellan, Orange, sales representative at Digital Equipment Corp., Joseph Pendergast, Buena Park, consulting engineer; Mary Tenney, Anaheim, president of a group of medical and hospital-related consultants.

Roger Cervantes, Irvine, Hughes Aircraft’s director of human resources; Donald Lawrenz Jr., Newport Beach, business executive; Eileen Lewis, Corona del Mar, postal service manager; Steve Malone, San Juan Capistrano, captain with California Highway Patrol; and Mary Slykhouse, Newport Beach, homemaker.