Ed Porter's Background

Public service in Santa Cruz includes:

• Santa Cruz City Council 2000 - 2004
  • City Schools Committee
  • Public Safety Committee
  • Social service Committee
  • Master Transportation Steering Committee
  • Integrated Water Plan task force

• City Commissions
  • Planning Commission
  • Zoning Board
  • Public Works Commission
  • Nine years on the Transportation Commission

Ed Porter also worked on the West Cliff Trestle Bridge task force, the 1990 General Plan Committee and is currently serving on the Master Transportation Study Task Force

Ed Porter has been a teacher at Santa Cruz High School since 1980, pioneering the first computer classes in Santa Cruz County. He was instrumental in starting a staff-based policy making board, the Management Team. Through this team, the staff is developing modern democratic management techniques.

Ed Porter's business and industry experience are great assets on the Council. Becoming a licensed Flight Instructor over 25 years ago was one of his most challenging accomplishments. He has brought that attention to critical detail to the Santa Cruz City Council. In the 1970's he worked as a senior Aerospace Engineer at the Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale. During the 1980's he operated a computer business downtown on Pacific Avenue.