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Mayoral candidates see Suisun heading in different directions Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Alma Hernandez has been running the show for the Suisun City council since April. She wants the job for the next four years. However, James Berg has a different election scenario, one in which he becomes mayor, and he made it clear he does not think the current council has the city going in the right direction. The two faced off at a candidates forum Monday. The event was hosted by the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee in the council chamber at Fairfield City Hall. There were about two dozen people who attended. It was not known how many were watching via Zoom. The forum also included the candidates for the 3rd District seat on the Solano County Board of Supervisors and three of the five candidates seeking two seats on the Suisun City council. Berg, a local businessman, raised concerns about public safety, the cleanliness of the city, which he said keeps residents from shopping locally and keeps new businesses from coming into the city. He also said the budget is too dependent on grants and other outside funding. Hernandez painted a quite different picture and said she has had See Suisun, Page A8

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Local candidates appear at a forum at the Fairfield City Council Chambers, Monday.

A forum Tuesday for Fairfield council hopefuls was continuing at press time. The forum was scheduled to include the three candidates seeking the mayor’s seat: four-term incumbent Harry Price, Councilwoman Catherine Moy and local businessman Chauncey Banks. It was also scheduled to feature candidates for the council’s District 1 post – K. Patrice Williams, Nora Dizon and George Kennedy – candidates for the District 3 post – Doug Carr and David Verza – and candidates for the District 5 post – Councilwoman Doriss Panduro, Scott Mulvey and Jeremy Ferrell.

Questions paint supervisor hopefuls as beholden to developer, labor dollars

Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Wanda Williams started the runoff election with a head start. She was the top vote-getting in a five-candidate primary that left the Suisun City councilwoman and Fairfield Councilman Chuck Timm left standing for the Nov. 8 general election. The two candidates for the 3rd District seat on the Solano County Board of Supervisors squared off Monday during a forum hosted by the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee in the council chamber at Fairfield City Hall. Timm was painted, by one question, as a lackey for developer money. Williams was painted, by another question, as a servant to the interests of unions – and specifically labor groups representing county employees.

FAIRFIELD — Voters had an opportunity Monday to hear three of the five candidates for two open seats on the Suisun City council answer questions on the same topics. By the end, Katrina Garcia, Jenalee Dawson and Charles Lee Jr. had formed an admiration club for each other, noting each were motivated to help the city but that each brought different qualifications to bear. Councilwoman Jane Day and challenger Princess Washington did not participate. The forum was held in the council chamber at Fairfield City Hall. It was hosted by the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee. About two dozen people attended. It was not clear how many may have watched via Zoom. Garcia said she had been doing the job of a council member without being in office, noting her work on

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Board of Supervisors candidates Wanda Williams, center, and Chuck Timm, left, as well as short-term candidate for mayor Larry Brumfield, right, appear at a candidate forum at the Fairfield City Council chamber, Monday.

Suisun council candidates agree a lot, but not completely

Hurricane Ian forecast to strike Florida earlier, harder Tribune Content Agency MIAMI — Hurricane Ian’s projected path shifted to the south Tuesday and farther away from Tampa Bay, a heavily populated region highly vulnerable to storm surge flooding, but the storm was still shaping up a potential wide-ranging disaster for Florida. Much of the peninsula was under hurricane or tropical storm warnings. More than 2.5 million people had fled homes in high-risk coastal areas, some that could see storm surge up to 12 feet deep. Flash flood warnings were posted for Central Florida with up to 24 inches of drenching rains possible for days to come.

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Tampa Bay area residents and drivers fill the lanes on I-4 as they escape the high winds and flood waters of Hurricane Ian with just a day left before the storm lands in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday. Schools were closed in many counties, including Miami-Dade and Broward. So were Orlando

theme parks. Massive power outages are likely. In its 5 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday forecast, WEATHER 85 | 57 Sunny. Five-day forecast on B10.

the National Hurricane Center said the most direct and damaging impact from Hurricane Ian is expected to be somewhere along the Gulf Coast between Fort Myers and Sarasota. Ian could come ashore as a Category 3 or 4 storm, packing 130 mph winds and possibly bringing historic levels of storm surge to the Sarasota area. One of the Floridians evacuating was Jeff Carey, a 59-year-old mold remediation specialist who left his Venice home in the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park Tuesday evening. Carey has lived in this gulf shore community for more than a decade, and he’s seen the after-

math of hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, and he’s not taking any chances with Hurricane Ian. He knew that the water could rise high in his home. “Just get out. Don’t stick around,” he said about an hour before

evacuating to a friend’s sturdier building several miles inland. “If you’ve got any place to go, go. This is not a thing to mess around with. Very serious, and it’s like I said, it’s one of the biggest ones I’ve See Ian, Page A8

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