Mark Stone, Vice Chair of the California Coastal Commission and Santa Cruz County Supervisor

Realignment? What Are You Doing To Us Now?

Mark Stone will speak on how the State is sending more responsibility to local jurisdictions through the realignment of state services. They started with prisons, moved to health and human services and now are talking about schools. How does something that local jurisdictions have been asking for for years suddenly seem so fraught with peril? It is not that the state realigns services its how.

Biography

Mark Stone was appointed as the Fifth District Supervisor on November 12, 2003. Supervisor Stone was elected in November, 2004 and re-elected in November, 2008. He served as Chair of the Board in 2006 and 2011. In August 2009, Supervisor Stone was appointed by then Assembly Speaker Karen Bass to represent Monterey, San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties on the California Coastal Commission. He was elected Vice-Chair in June 2011.

Prior to his appointment as Supervisor, Mr. Stone served on the Scotts Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees. He was first elected to the Board in 1998 and served as Board Secretary in 1999, Vice-President in 2000, and President from 2001 through 2003.

In addition to his responsibilities to his constituents, Supervisor Stone serves on the County's Transit Board, Library Joint Powers Board, Regional Transportation Commission, First Five Commission, and is the County's representative to the California State Association of Counties and the regional FishNet 4C network. Supervisor Stone represents the Santa Cruz County RTC on the California Association of Councils of Governments.

After a year traveling and working in Scandinavia and Europe, Supervisor Stone began his career in 1980 as an analyst and then contract negotiator in the defense electronics industry in Silicon Valley. After law school, he worked in the computer industry as an attorney and opened the Law Office of Mark Stone in 1993 and stepped away from his law practice when he became Supervisor. He is a former Assistant Professor for the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, where he served from 1993 to 2000, and was an Adjunct Professor for the University of San Francisco School of Law from 1994 to 1998. Supervisor Stone earned a bachelor of arts degree in1979 from the University of California, Berkeley and a juris doctorate degree in 1988 from Santa Clara University, School of Law.

Mark Stone lives in Scotts Valley with his wife Kathy. They have two children, Melissa, away at college and Byron, a high school student. Mark is an avid open water swimmer.