Commission application number 347 submitted by David Easterday on 09/24/2020
First Name | David |
Middle Name/Initial | E |
Last Name | Easterday |
Voter Unique Identification number | 1131150717 |
Ethnicity | White |
Gender | Male |
Age | 65+ |
Education Level | Bachelor's Degree |
Major Pursued | Chemistry |
What is your occupation? | Retired |
Submitted Address | |
City | Austin |
State | TX |
Zip | 78754 |
Verified Address | |
City | Austin |
State | TX |
Zip | 78754 |
Do you have a spouse or domestic partner? | Yes |
Spouse/Domestic Partner First Name | Zita |
Spouse/Domestic Partner Middle Name/Initial | A |
Spouse/Domestic Partner Last Name | Easterday |
Are you applying to be the student member of the commission? | No |
Have you been continuously registered to vote in the City of Austin for the last five years? | Yes |
Have you voted in 3 of the last 5 City of Austin general elections (or corresponding runoff if applicable)? | Yes |
Been appointed to a state or city office? | No |
Been elected to a state or city office? | No |
Been a candidate for a state or city office? | No |
Served as an officer, employee, or paid consultant of a political party? | No |
Served as an officer, employee, or paid consultant of the campaign committee of a candidate for elective state, county, or city office? | No |
Been a registered state or local lobbyist? | No |
A paid employee of the City of Austin? | No |
A person performing paid services under a professional services contract with the City of Austin? | No |
A person performing paid services under a professional or personal services contract to the City Council of the City of Austin or to any individual member of the City Council of the City of Austin? | No |
A controlling person of a person performing paid services under a professional or personal services contract to any member of the City Council of the City of Austin? | No |
Contribute or bundle one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more in aggregate to candidates for City of Austin elective office? | No |
Please describe your relevant analytical skills. | I have the necessary analytical skill to complete a B.S. degree in chemistry and pursuing a successful analytical chemistry career working for companies contracting with EPA and DOD. The same analytical skills were required to author one US patent and co-author another. I think my skills are transferable to this task. |
Please describe your ability to be impartial. | I attended several meetings during the first 10-1 drawing of districts. Every time I spoke, I emphasized the essential goal of impartiality because I thought it was either being ignored or assumed to be an unspoken attribute of every other point being made. I seldom heard it or synonyms it mentioned. |
Please describe your appreciation for the City of Austin's diverse demographics and geography. | I have lived in Austin seventeen years in mixed neighborhoods by preference. In social and workplace meetings, if I have been impressed or surprised by those of differing races or cultures, it has mostly been in favorable ways. I know that there is still a lot of inequity to be eliminated. |
Please provide your employment history. | Water Treatment Chemist Pharmaceutical Chemist- US Army Adhesives Chemist- Hallmark Cards Private Business Chemical Analysis- General Testing Laboratory Chemical Analysis- Midwest Research Institute In Austin, I have been consistently interested and sometime participant in local government. Judging from reported voter turnout and my casual encounters with average citizens, I judge I am more interested and more aware of city representation and other issues than the average citizen is. |
Please provide any other information you wish to be considered during the selection of the most qualified applicants for the Commission. | I can tell when I am less informed than someone else on a topic and have the ability to work with and learn from anyone as needed regardless of age, sex or background. |
How did you hear about redistricting/Applicant Review Panel? | Radio, Television, Newspaper, Austintexas.gov, From family or friend, Other (please describe) |
How did you hear "Other" option detail | I have known this was due since the first go around. |
Disclaimer Agreement | Checked |
Disclaimer Signature | David E Easterday |
District | District 1 |
Does this application qualify? | Yes |