Peter Romanowsky for college of Marin School Board

Marin County, CANovember 2, 1999 ElectionPETER ROMANOWSKY CANDIDATE FOR COLLEGE OF MARIN BOARD OF DIRECTORSBy Pete RomanowskyCandidate for Governing Board Member; Marin Community College District 
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A rough draft of what I intend to do once elected, and the vision that I share with Doctor James Middleton President of COM/IVC, (after reading his Evolving Vision for Indian Vally College Report).

Hello my name is PETER ROMANOWSKY and I am currently running for the COLLEGE OF MARIN BOARD OF DIRECTORS, here in MARIN COUNTY. 
Our College district is made up of two campus INDIAN VALLEY COLLEGE, in Novato California and the College of Marin campus in Kentfield. They were once two separate colleges but now are one. The Indian Valley College campus was built in anticipation of a population growth the never happened. Henceforth the 333 light wooded acres with it's cluster of buildings has been under utilized and has become a financial drain, due to subsequent lack of management and vision. In particular the faculty wasn't able to keep up, with the rapid technological pace of the job market. When high tech firms worked with the students and faculty in the past. But now that 80% of the highest paid faculty members are about to retire, there will be a new influx of monies, to hire highly energized fresh faculty members.

There is the problem also of the three student cafeterias at IVC, that need to be consolidated into a central meeting area. To give the college more atmosphere, and feeling of fellowship.

Another need I plan to address is to have an attractive athletic program for the Indian Valley Campus. That will draw more full time students away from the commute to Santa Rosa Junior College. Which is the number one competitor to COM and IVC campuses.

You might be saying to yourself "Why not sell some of the land and consolidate the assets into a smaller more efficient IVC Campus, and take the financial burden off the district"? Well the problem is that every local, state government and non-profit agency on the horizon, has first priority to buy the excess property. So the land can't be sold to the highest bidder or, on the open market to solve the finical problems of the district.

I believe that another way of insuring that full time students attend COM/IVC is to use some of the IVC land for ecologically sound and centrally, planned affordable housing. For the students, faculty and essential work force such as the College Police, etc. If a shuttle bus service was is instituted the concerns over increased traffic, would diminish and the whole extended community would profit. The college cannot depend on locally elected city council members that tend to vote for bigger and more expensive housing, at the cost of the middle class and poor. Which tend not to vote in general because they feel so disenfranchised, from the whole political system. Therefore only some 30% of the entire population will eventually vote this November. Unless a candidate like me, who really represents the majority, (who don't tend to vote), to go to the polls.

Separate books also need to be kept between the COM and the IVC campus, to make it easier to identify the financial problems of the District with more clearness. The most recent Grand Jury Report recommended this. Of which there has been approximately ten such reports in the past fourteen years. All apparently dealing with the financial problems of COM/IVC.

There is also the legal problems that the College District is having, with large out of court settlements paid to plaintiffs. From concern that court trials would be more expensive, (or embarrassing)! This Needs a real expert at mediation and resolution conflict, on behalf of the welfare of the students, first of all and teachers, work force and district as a whole. "Can't we hold to higher standards, then to just want to make money, or for that matter being over anxious about the lack of it"! Is this becoming the whole the purpose of living and working? Do not we have a higher purpose? Yes we do". Where is the spiritual dimension in all this, is survival of the fittest the only road to take in a tug of war between higher and lower powers. Is this the fruit of all that education is suppose to be about? Where is the altruism, where is the self sacrifice, where is the passage from the Oath of Hypocrites, about not charging to impart this sacred healing knowledge to others.

Let's not fight and tear one another apart, or be anxious about our futures, at the expense of the next generation. A nation or district divided against itself about money and resources, between the haves and the have-nots, between labor and management will eventually collapse unless a middle road is found....to be continued

Peter Romanowsky trained in-house and interned by the General Baptist Church of America 1968. Organized and pastured Agape' Christian Church which met in the Woodacre Improvement Club 1970. Recruited by the New Covenant Evangelistic Association an inter-denominational ministerial alliance headquartered in Richmond 1971 and made vice president. Moved Sunday services to Stewart Chapel located on the grounds of the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo 1973. Traveled internationally as a missionary evangelist lecturing, preaching, teaching and holding healing services through most of the seventies. Spent nearly three years in cloister studying and meditating in the early eighties. Became senior minister to the waterfront live-a-board community in Sausalito during the nineties as a home missionary. Mailing Address 300 Napa St. #40 Sausalito, CA. 94965 Tel 415/289-9540

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Peter Romaowsky Sausalito Marin City Sanitation District

Marin County, CANovember 2, 1999 ElectionWHY I AM RUNNING FOR SAUSALITO MARIN CITY SANITATION DISTRICT!By Pete RomanowskyCandidate for Director; Sausalito-Marin City Sanitary District 
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To long we have looked the other way and sat around watching politicians drink their Martinis, while the enviroment goes to hell in the face of over development. Where are these poltical leaders, when the real down and dirty work needs to be done. To keep clean, Richardson Bays waters and to prevent needless waste from going into our landfills.

Rev. martin Luther King was assassinated while helping sanitation workers organize and get a fair wage for their necessary labors. He was not assassinated while running for President of the United States. He could have run, and would have been the first black President, if he had lived and been chosen and called to do so. 
After I thought an extra day whether I should run or not, I signed up at the Civic Center. As I was returning home I met a friend at a bus stop, who didn't even know where I was coming from or what I had done. He said that a famous beat writer named William Bennet was asked when he gave up his aspirations to run for president, the answer he gave was "When I learned that I could get my elbows deep in the flush fund, of the Sewer District". That is not why I am running, to wade in slush money (if any). But it goes to show that corruption can be found in any level of political office, and that even in a joke the seriousness of kick backs can be found anywhere. 
The reason that I am running to to serve the community and help preserve the environment.I want to establish recycle stations for reusable goods such as wood, paint, chemicals, toxins, metals, compose,clothes, etc. I believe that we can act as a community doing this, and help people save money and clean the environment at the same time. I believe also that it will install a spirit of community in us all, not to waste so much. 
I want to see cleaner water and less development of every square inch of property next to Richardson Bay. The Bay can only hold so much pollution and all the Sanitation Districts from beyond Sacramento to here, dump their sewage into the river and the bay. Which eventually ends up on our shore here because the Sacramento River Bed flows right between Angel Island and Tiburon. I went swimming once on the Golden gate Headlands when brown foam was present, and my eyes were irritated and mildly infected. We need a cleaner bay, blaming one group of people or another is not the answer. Run off toxins from automobiles, oil, preservatives from houses, dog fetuses, pesticides, over development are all causes and blames for an unhealthy bay. Even though the water is cleaner then ever before as far as mussels are able to grow again on the bottom of boats and pier pilings, as a result of diverting mill Valleys sewage from Richardson bay to Tiburon peninsula over these past years. Yet, still chemicals, heavy metals and even radio active materials are still present in the waters, not to forget to mention PCBS and God only knows what else, has been dumped into the bay. Much of this can find it's way through our drainage sinks, if we are not careful. Don't flush anything down your toilet, that you wouldn't want in you food chain. 
I remembers thirty years ago when the whole west end of Richardson Bay stank to high heaven, before the diversion of mill Valleys Sewage. I still smells bad at low tide in Sausalito, due to all the marinas and yacht harbors, that have taken over the entire waterfront. it's not the few Anchor Outs that dot the bay that are causing all the pollution. It's the over development in general of the entire district, including the hugh marin City USA development, that has profited out of county white rich businessmen and residents from I don't know who knows where, that have moved in. I wish I could think of someone I know that could afford one of these town houses. Instead of providing spaces for black owned businesses and residences that local low income waterfront people of Sausalito could afford, as well as the historical population of Marin City, who is being squeezed into a corner, with not even a place to buy food any more. 
There is a mad frenzy to over tax and over use the land around Richardson Bay, at the cost of the pastoral and serene beauty of the landscape and waterfront. The bay can't take any more run off without not only becoming more polluted, but filled in for that matter with silt. 
To come down to earth more in a practical sense, I don't that we should just give away all our reusable and recyclable resources to refuse companies. Without hard fast data on your garbage bills, that the re-cycleables, like aluminum cans and redeemable glass and paper, are truly deducted from your bill. Otherwise why recycle for just another big corporation, when we can use the money here at home. 
I have had fifteen years of recycling experience here in Sausalito, and have learned to live on this earth, without polluting it and making a living at the same time. I want to share this experience and profit with you all, let's work together and start getting away from this sometimes mad consumer mentality we have, in throwing so much away,after so little use. 
The harbors can be cleaned up by monitoring sewage discharge better, and requiring harbors that have house boats to hook up to the sewer system. The heavy metals and toxins that fall from the bottom of the boats, and pollute the fish cannot be helped short of tearing them down.but a moratorium on new marinas will certainly help the situation. Now we know why there are all the no fishing signs.

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Peter Romanowsky Family History escape from socialism

Peter Romaowsky family history escape from socialism ....I grew up around guns, always had a gun rack over our heads on the couch as we watched television, ev r n when left alone as children while parents went out on Fridays and older brother a child also as baby sitter and the lick on the gun rack was made of a thin wooden rod, easy to be broken, never had a temptation to play with real guns, toy guns air rifles I mean real air rifles and bee bee guns imaginary and were trained from childhood to be around and use guns, boring at times, taken hunting, carrying high powered rifles, I remember the first time I fired a 306 Russian rifle my father's favorite, the kick was tremendous  to a somewhat young kid, unforgetsble, same with shotgun, wow would bruise a women, God made women to bruise easy for evidence in spouse abuse. My dad always carried a gun because one saved his life from deportation to the Stalinist Soviet Union after the Russian Finnish War Treaty, to return all Soviet defectors, my father was an officer and traitor to the Soviet Union for defecting and joining in the enemy against Communist Socialism which is the death penalty and pulled a gun on the authorities and escaped through a farmhouse window and lived as a survivalist in the forest in an underground covered hole, so all his life he carried a weapon, in case Soviet Agents caught up your him. They begged him to come back to Russia while in California and he said obviously no and kept on the run, till we ended up in Marin County in 1963, I remember him showing me a twenty to automatic pistol, so small that he could put it even in his wallet...for concealment. ... to be continued

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Marin, Sonoma County, CA June 2, 1998 Primary
Peter Romanowsky
Candidate for Member of the State Assembly; District 6

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Biographical Highlights
Party: Republican / Middle of the Road Moderate
Occupation: Minister/Aquatic Recycler
Lived in Marin / Sonoma counties 35 years
Attended both Redwood and Analy High Schools
Licensed as a baptist minister in 1968
Founded Interfaith Church at the facilities of the Woodacre Improvement Club in 1970, moved to Stewart Chapel on the grounds of the San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1973
Appointed vice president of the New Covenant Evangelistic Association 1971 an inter-denominational ministerial alliance incorporated to aid new and struggling ministries.
Founding minister of Agape Christian Center Thrift Store in San Rafael 1972. Bay area religious radio broadcaster in 1973. Same year became an internationl missionary evangelist with service in countless countries in Europe and middle east . Currently I am involved with the low income working waterfront /anchorout community of Sausalito as a Chaplin representing the N.C.E.A.
Top Priorities if Elected
I am concerned about the devorce rate and the poverty it brings to children as well as mothers. I will introduce a covenant marriage bill like the State of Lousianna has, to parallel our current devorce laws.
I will introduce charter school vouchers for poor and low income families who can't afford private schools so public schools will have healthier competition and freedom to choose for parents.
I will reduce the population of our prisons ten to twenty percent of minor drug offenders and use the money for rehabilitation and education. We currently have the largest prison system in the world.
Key Endorsements
I have been endorsed by the Republicans of Sausalito and good friend democrates.
I also have been endorsed by the working poor and low income waterfront people of Sausalito.
I have been endorsed by the New Covenant Evangelistic Association as well as my pears, friends and associates.
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Peter Romanowsky Family History escape from Russia

Stories from Finland my  great great grandfather was was and educater,
minister and town elder in general, a Finnish Shaman so to speak and a
leader in the Free Church of Movement in Finland apart from the official
Lutheran Church, Independent Church Fundamentalist. There was a large lake
in his home town of Tianus Jurva, a part of the town of village of Jurva,
near Vaasa Finland and he noticed how the water was do shallow that he
could see the fish swimming around in it, near the surface so he tried to
organize the locals to dig a canal and drain he lake for rich farmland. But
the villagers mocked him at he idea or the project, so he ended up hiring
them instead to dig the canal, instead of enjoying the mutual benefit and
land ownership, after buying the lake of course and drained the lake and
turned it into rich farmland next to his already handsome farmhouse the
villagers then grumbled that he became so wealthy in land and prosperity.
He then ran for school board and lost and then used his property and
position to build a school and wrote textbooks to bring the Fi mush
language back, from the common language of Swedish because most Swedes
lived on the coast of Finland and couldn't even speak Finnish, even though
that they have lived in Finland for hundreds of years, during the war with
Russia the President couldn't even speak Finnish , funny...when I was there
dome give times in the seventies   Finland was still a bilingual country,
being passed back and forth between Russia and Sweden, before it's
independence around 1918, today it's better and Finnish Swedes are starting
to learn and speak Finnish. The result was that the Finnish language was
tough phoneticaly, by Principles and educators like my ancestor, who wrote
the books on grammer, among others so that today Finnish is the perfect
computer language and. Finn  named Torval developed a computer language
that was better then Bill Gates and Microsoft and he gave it away free
instead of bring a greedy multi-billionaire, but

Peter Romanowsky CEO New Covenant Evangelistic Association Inc. 501C3 non profit Church

I feel God wants me to share something very serious, I was called into the ministry virtually the moment that I was born again, my ancestors were mainly ministers on my mother's side and mail veterinarians on my father's side, with large family owned farm in Finland on my mother's side and a law professor on my father's, with two University educated patents who immigrated to America to flee execution by the Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia, for my father being an officer, defected to Finland during the Russian Finnish war and married my mother, it was the death penalty and the Soviets enforced it, my parents began living the American dream as small businessmen and mechanical labourers, including a bar and garage business, mother as a nurses aid also, briefly, we growing up in a large family, had nothing extra, never been on welfare or good stamps, they didn't even exist, in fact my parents had to sign papers that for three years that they couldn't get any government help. My great Aunt in New Jersey was out sponsor, she was head maid for major holder of Ponds and Nestles Chocolate in Short Hills New Jerry, my uncle was his scooter, even offered to buy my younger brother and adopt him, Alex was his name, he was do blond haired and blue eyes even as a child, grew up to look like Elvis Presley, I said all this, to say that. That I have never made my living, preaching the gospel, as a missionary, pastor, radio programmer, gospel radio. Never got a salary, except supplimenatel income, when the bills were due for Church Chapel rent, it ultimately, came out of my pockets, like Saint Paul, I never charged or begged, for preaching the gospel, I am thankful for the supplemental income I received, time to time, primarily supported myself, announcing rooms in our large garden estate, lionised to us by my in-laws, or which I turned over all my community property, to my wife and now she is a millionaire, owning the estate lock stock and barrel, I have never had a credit card, pastor of my first Baptist Church of Sausalito, said it was a trap of Satan, always paid cash or check, wherever I went, like the Apostle Paul said, no one can ever take that boasting from me, he said that he could have been supported as the most successful missionary, the world has ever seen, or known, he received money to give to others, otherwise he supported himself as a tent maker, tradesmen, his whole missionary life, like me also, supporting myself, doing any kind of physical labour or rental management, of which I was good at, even on facebook, where I have pictures of me with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and angel, hasn't brought me any support, except likes, I have never begged for support for myself, I'm not a begger, like Saint Paul was not either, Jesus was supported for only three years of his life, by rich women from Herod's court and the common pheasants, no doubt, he turned water into wine, fed the multitudes, paid tax money from a fishes mouth, but never begged or salesgirl money, Judas was the treasurer, and complained, about the repentant prostitute, breaking her perfume on Jesus' feet, her stock and trade, I supported myself salvaging and recycling for twenty years, after my wife was forced to leave me, under threats of disinheritance, of which at time, was in denial, I married into a super rich family, the Donald Trump of the richest county, in he proverbial world, being the richest in California alone and the head of the Republican Party, tapped to be a Congressmen, but didn't want to live in Washington, who would, except a dedicated public servant, he was a friend of presidents and governors, appointed twice to the State Harbors Commission by Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan, I supported myself preaching and ministering, in the hot sun on the Dock of the Bay Sausalito, where Otis Reading was inspired to Co write the song, in the Sausalito area, Gates coop, but I played, watching the shops come in, finally I reached sixty five and had enough credits to get Social Security and suplemental  income for my back, which I earned, doing back breaking work, for twenty years, on facebook where I preach and share my daily life for years, have received some twenty dollars and a hundred dollar contribution, I married into money and rejected it, for the gospels sake and have as ways provided for myself, with my wife who had a modest trust fund also, for a few years, of which h I matched the money, with supplemental rental income, from our large estate, of which we took in all the poor and homeless, weather they could pay rent or not, finally to some college students, we rented the first floor, the town homeless alcoholic, even passed away and went to heaven, in our guest house, no way he could pay rent, none of us were on welfare or social security, we made it, even though for a time, we did finally get some food stamps, which we had to pay for, partial at the time, in fact my father in law, started the food stamp program to Marin County as a Marin County Supervisor, even today I am financially, self supporting or asking or begging for anything for myself, but would never turn down a donation, which basically, doesn't exist, I can go on forever, even have pictures of me in the clouds, I say all this to say, no one should ever call all preachers money grubbers or men of the cloth, but to receive supplemental support to make my life, more bearable, with electronic communications, I.e. cell phone bills, shower bills, up coming, went without a hot bath or shower, for countless years, only spit washed or bathed naked, on the beach, with no soap or shampoo, not polluting the bay, and needless to say, my desire to help others, in more need then myself, no one can take this from me, I could sell my pictures, won't and when published, will at go to the 501C3 California Incorporated non profit, that my children's mother and I inherited, to help others and establish a place, to worship, here in Sausalito and elsewhere, I make no apologies, for pirodically, letting folks know, of supplemental needs, of which my ex wife, is the greatest, contributer, in spite of not having laptop access on my boat, I conduct virtually all my business, on a cheap hundred dollar smart phone, and politically, in the public library, I could go on forever, having no serious mental bills, reached Medicare age, etc,...

Peter Romanowsky Family History

More refugee boat stories from Soviet Communism by Peter Romanowsky, born
into a refugee family, press follow button for the  rest of the
stories...My grandfather was an activist Lawyer in Soviet Communist White
Russian , against the Communist state, from Minsk the Capital of White
Russia, the only country in the world, called White , funny, anyway his
house was confiscated and turned into a police military headquarters and he
was put into prison, my father was a student at the University of Moscow
and was also caught up in the Anti Christian hysteria of the time and even
helped to destroy an Orthodox Church, as a student. When he went to the
Ukraine and saw the people staved to death by the Russians, under Stalin a
former Seminary student, by the millions, for not become g collectivist
farmers, being the bread basket of Europe, things apparently, begin to
change for him, he said that he saw whole families, starved to death, in
their houses, by the Soviet Communists, he had to support his brothers and
sisters being  the eldest, while my grandfather was imprisoned, for his
anti communist activities, even though my father said, that he was an
atheist lawyer, in Russia if your not an Orthodox Christian then you were
considered an atheist, that obviously changed with my grandfather, a
monument being over his grave, with a cross, when the German Army overcome
Bella Russia, they released my grandfather from prison for his anti
communist activityies, but took my Blue eyed Aryan looking grandmother to
Germany as a domestic slave, I'm still thinking of filing  for repreations,
my father although a student still, had to take care of the family and feed
my grandfather in prison, before the Farmers came and liberated him, the SS
came later has Hitler's henchmen and not the German Army, who were all
forced to be drafted and fight, weather  a Nazi Party member or not...to be
continued my doggie just woke up.