City Council — City of Oroville

Janet Goodson is running for one of three City Council seats in Oroville. She is from Sacramento, CA and came to Oroville in 2009. She worked in the State Judicial system while living in Sacramento for the Department of Justice in the Peace Officers Standards and Training unit, was promoted to the Department of Corrections and subsequently the Board of Prison Terms.

Since 2011, Janet has worked with District Attorney Mike Ramsey, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea and Chief Bill LaGrone of the Oroville Police Department on many community driven committees. In 2012, she Co-Founded the Southside Vanguard which hosts community forums representing community concerns and issues. As a result of these forums, the Oroville communities and law enforcement officials have bridged a respective gap in community relations.

In 2015, Janet worked with LAFCO representatives, District Supervisor, Bill Connelly and Mayor Linda Dahlmeier in the annexation of South Oroville into the City’s parameters.

Janet has an educational background in Social Studies and Behavioral Science and is currently employed by Youth for Change in Paradise, CA as a Behavioral Health Counselor. Her passion for community carries over into her work ethic in regards to working with at risk children and young adults. Janet is a member of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Steering Committee which awards selected College bound Oroville area H.S. students scholarship funding. Each student is recognized and presented Certificate of Awards by U.S. Representative, Congressman Doug LaMalfa.

Due to the incorporation of South Oroville into the City, Janet will be the first African American, the first female and the first candidate to run for a City office from South Oroville. Her vision for the City of Oroville is based on the intent to build a safe, prosperous and vibrant City that the people deserve.

I was born in a rural town in Idaho in 1978.  My family was contractors and my father was owned a custom cabinet shop.  I learned this trade at a young age.  After graduating from high school I began pursuing ministry and graduated from a Bible seminary and traveled the world with my wife planting churches, teaching in Bible Institutes and volunteering at drug rehab centers.  My wife and I lived a couple years in Vladivostok Russia where we helped establish three churches and a Bible institute.  We returned to the United States to start a family and help a small church in Sonoma California.  To support my family I opened my own custom cabinet shop and was able to hire a couple employees as the business began to grow and word spread.  Because of the quality of our work and the way we operated our business, we were able to survive following the economic struggle of 2008.  Our reputation grew pretty quickly and I was soon building full sets of cabinets for 3 million dollar homes in the mountains of Marin County and San Francisco.  In 2014 I decided to shut down the cabinet shop and move to Oroville with my wife and two sons to help replant a struggling church.  I fell in love with the town right away and became connected with many amazing people in town.  Knowing I would be planting my roots in Oroville, I began considering the future of our town and what options my kids would have after graduating from high school.  Would they want to stay in Oroville?  Would there be good jobs and a place for them to stay?  Would they need to move away to find a good career?  These questions drove me to look into our city’s politics and business support systems.  After much deliberation I began asking local business men to run for City Council and even held a meeting with the Mayor to get business and “growth minded” people in City Council.  Four key business men that I wanted to run for City Council came back to me and said that they could not but felt as I was the person for the task and pledged their support if I did run.  Therefore, I am now running for this office.  I do not consider myself a politician, however I do know what it is like to start and run a business and I have a heavy burden for the future of our town.  I want to see this beautiful town become the gem it was always supposed to be.  I believe our town is at a crucial time in its history and, with the right people in City Council, our little town will become the place where families and businesses can thrive once again.

I am: pro-small government, pro-second amendment, pro-life, pro-immigration reform, pro-freedom of speech, pro-freedom of religion (as long as it doesn’t involve cutting off an infidel’s head), anti-Sharia law, pro-business growth among others.  I believe that today, a growing number of Americans are becoming entitled in their mentality towards the government.  I am more old school in my philosophy and believe in hard work, sacrifice and a good honest dollars wage.  I live on a small fixed income and understand what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck.  I know what it is like to look for loose change in my car to buy food for my wife and I.  No matter what financial situation I have found myself in, I do not think I am owed anything by my government.  I feel a responsobility to leave something better for the following generations. 

Although I think California is a land of opportunity still, it is also a difficult place for a small businesses to grow.  With the many restrictions and policies in place, it creates an environment where franchises, with deep pockets, thrive while the little guy is swallowed up by bureaucratic red tape and fees.  I would like to be an advocate in our City government for all good business growth, both big and small companies.  We need large corporations but also need to protect and encourage our small local businesses and start-up companies.  I do not believe it is the government’s responsibility to create jobs.  I believe the government should serve and protect fair business practices.  I believe in fiscal responsibility, individually and as a nation.  I believe it wrong to pass debt on to our next generation.  These values are not merely a manufactured political platform for me; these have been my values for years and will carry with me where ever I go.  These values affect my home life and will affect my decisions in City Council.

Councilman David W. Pittman Summary 

Council Performance 2 terms (8 years)

In addition to City Council meetings and duties 

Personal Participation on :  

Butte County Coalition of Homelessness

Butte County Water Advisory Board

Liaison to Oroville Area Chamber of Commerce Board

Butte County Association of Governments, alternate

Butte County Airport Land Use Commission

Indian Supplemental Benefits Committee —Chairman 

Committee to Improve the Oroville Airport and Fixed Base Operator Building

Committee To Improve the Oroville Golf Course Facility

Committee to Improve Broadband Infrastructure to Commercial District 

Former Redevelopment Agency Chairman

—Orange Tree Senior Affordable Housing Project (old Curran Hospital)

—Development of Street Improvement Plan for South Side Myers Street Business Neighborhood

—Supported Brownsfield Grant Project ( 1.3 million of EPA funding )

—Supported numerous infrastructure roadway improvements Safe Pedestrian Crossings, etc. 

Public Works Sub-Committee

Supported Roadway grant projects

—Stanford Avenue safe routes to schools sidewalk safety street crossings and safety railing

—Supported new Round-a-bout project Table Mt. , Cherokee Rd. & Nelson Avenue

—Supported Sewage collection system Master Plan and Improvements 

—Supported new equipment for Public Works 

Public Safety

—Supported New Apparatus for Fire Dept. 

—Supported New Vehicle for Police Dept. 

—Supported New Municiple Law Enforcement Program for Police Dept. 

—Supported New Fire Station at Oroville Airport, near construction start date soon. 

Supplemental Benefits Fund

—Currently Chairman 

—Continued development of Recreation Master Plan to provide direction for future projects. 

—Potential Water Park / Aquatic Park center

—Potential Master Pool Swimming Complex

—Support to Clay Pit State Vehicle Recreation Area General Plan Implementation 

—Support to Rabe Road Sport Safety Training Plan, Shooting, Archery & Trap Ranges

Rotarian with Rotary of Oroville

—Past President

—Vocational Training Team (VTT) to Liberia, Africa Clean Water Health Project that became Ebola     Fight Team March 2014

For those of you who do not know who I am, my name is Thil Chan-Wilcox.

I have strong ties to Oroville’s past, and I hold a stake in the town’s future.  I am a native of Oroville.  I have resided in Oroville the majority of my life.  Members of my family played an important part in Oroville’s past history, (my great grandfather settled in Oroville in 1867. ) I want to make a difference in Oroville’s future.  I believe Oroville’s future lies in the sensible promotion of quality growth and industrial development.  Growth needs to be planned for and accomplished without a sense of desperation, and without the destruction of  Oroville’s historical assets.

As a Council member I have made myself available to constituents.  I will continue to make decisions, based on available information, that will make Oroville a better place to live.   I will do my best to protect the rights of property owners.

I would be able to utilize skills acquired from both life and work/career experiences.  My work experience includes 25 years in the Consumer Finance industry, 10 years with the Central Collection division of the Butte County Tax Collector’s office and 7 ½ years with the Butte County Department of Child Support Services.  I was on the Board of Directors for the Butte County Employees Association for 5 years, a shop steward for 5 years, and on the Employee Negotiation Committee for 2 years.  My husband John Wilcox and I previously owned and operated a business for over 20 years.   In addition, I was on the Oroville Planning Commission for 17 ½ years and was the Commission Chairman from 1998 to 2001.

I came with my family to Oroville in 1966. I graduated from Las Plumas High School in 1975. I attended Butte College and continued my education at serveral other educational facilities. I was hired by the California State Police in 1982 and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1995, the State Police and the California Highway Patrol merged into one agency, thus giving me the opportunity to move back to the Oroville area, which I did so immediately. I began attending City Council meetings and became more involved with the community and several local organizations. 

 I am a proponent for Oroville. I was lucky enoough to have served for 4yrs. on the City Council in 2010. I feel during that time, our town made great strides at becoming a stronger. more vibrant town. My goal is to achieve what is best for our citizens and community. Increase public safety, retain & expand current companies, introduce new and innovative technologies, ideas, and businesses.