Board Members
| District A | Westwood, Casa de las Campanas, 92127 (4 members) |
Fred Gahm |
I moved to Rancho Bernardo in August of 2006 with my wife Carol. We previously lived in Arcadia and Apple Valley prior to our marriage. I retired from working for the State of California after 30 years in electronic manufacturing. I served over four years on the School Board in Irvine as we established a new district. I have been active in my communities in many various ways and want to continue to do so in Rancho Bernardo. It is interesting, that in retirement, I am now here in Rancho Bernardo. I looked at the area in the late 1960’s when looking at a position with a major electronic corporation. I want to see that City items that affect Rancho Bernardo are brought early to the attention of the community so that appropriate input can be made on the project. Communication with the residents is an important issue when seeking to retain the environment that so many moved here for. |
Robin Kaufman  |
- Resident of Rancho Bernardo since 1975. - Member of the Joint Traffic Committee, Regional Issues Committee and Development Review Committee since 2000. - Co-Chair of the Joint Traffic Committee since 2004 - Served two years as Vice-Chair of the Planning Board. - Recipient of the San Diego North Chamber's Volunteer of the Year award 2003-2004 - Inducted into the RB Hall of Fame in 2004 |
Ed Kronenberger |
St. Louis, Missouri was my place of birth. After graduation from St. Louis University, I entered the Navy for two years of duty in San Diego. My business career entailed 30 years with Dow Chemical in numerous domestic locations. San Diego (Rancho Bernardo) has been my home since my retirement in 1984. I served as President of a Home Owner's Association and as a Planning Board member ('89-90') and as a member of the Board of the Country Club of Rancho Bernardo. In 2004, I moved to Casa de Las Campanas. |
Irving Sherman |
I am a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My education includes a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a MBA from the Harvard Business School. During World War II, I served in the Navy and was recalled in 1950 to serve during the Korean Emergency. My work career includes serving on the staff of the General Manager of the Westinghouse Bettis Nuclear Power Division and as a Manufacturing Engineer with the Lockheed Aircraft Company. Later I had executive positions with a trouser manufacturer, a custom drapery manufacturer, Ames Department Stores and Action Industries, a distributor of Housewares and Hardware products. In 1982, Rena and I moved to San Diego and I started a bookkeeping practice which was expanded to include preparation of income taxes. I sold the practice in 1996 but continue to work part time with the company. My Community involvement included serving on the Board of Directors of the Marbella HOA, the Oaks North Community Center and Ner Tamid Synagogue. Currently, I am Treasurer of the Bernardo Concert Association and serve on the Rancho Bernardo Community Planning Board. My wife and I have enjoyed living in Rancho Bernardo for the past 22 years. I have worked with the various Community organizations to try to maintain the Rancho Bernardo life style. In return, I have met many dedicated and hard working residents who share the same objective. |
| District B | Eastview, Greens West, 92128 (2 members) |
Teri Denlinger |
Teri Denlinger currently serves as Realtor® for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Rancho Bernardo. Previously, Teri was president and founder of Communication Factory, Inc., a San Diego-based firm providing communications management and consulting to global organizations including McDonald's Corporation, The Iams Company, Taco Bell, Citicorp Diners Club, Mead Corporation, and AT&T. Prior to the formation of Communication Factory, Teri managed communications for NCR Corp. in Ohio, and for McDonald's Corporation's worldwide restaurant network at the company's corporate headquarters in Chicago. Teri has also developed editorial and entertainment feature articles for Chicago-area media including The Chicago Tribune and The Chicago Sun Times. Teri is co-author of two non-fiction books: The New Rules of the Game (HarperCollins 1991), a management book for corporate middle managers, and Freewheeling (Landfall Press 1994), a historical, behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of The Reynolds and Reynolds Company and many business giants such as IBM. Teri has received numerous awards for communications excellence in the areas of writing, annual report production, and overall magazine/newsletter editorial and design. |
| Open Seat |
There is one vacant postition in District B |
| District C | Oaks North, 92128 (2 members) |
Richard Bettendorf  |
Richard Bettendorf has lived in Rancho Bernardo for approximately four years, since joining the San Diego Community College District at Miramar College in 2004. Richard currently serves as the Dean of Technical Careers and Workforce Initiatives at the college. Richard's career in education spans 35 years. In addition to his current dean duties he has many years of teaching, 8 years as Director of Advanced Transportation Technologies at Cypress College in Orange County . Richard has also been a business owner, an expert witness, and a consultant. For almost 20 years Richard imported and distributed single seat race cars from the UK. Some of his consulting clients include Orange County Transportation Authority, South Coast Air Quality Management District, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Audi, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi, and Porterville College. Richard has also served on the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortia at West Virginia University. Richard has been married for 40 years, has two adult children, one granddaughter and one more grandchild expected in April. |
Tom Brugh  |
I moved permanently to San Diego in June of 2007 after spending six months per year here since 2001. I graduated from Youngstown University with a BS in Business Administration. The last 31 years of my career were spent with the Wolf Envelope Company in Cleveland, OH in sales and sales management. I served on the Bay Village, Ohio City Council from 1988 to 2001 serving as Finance Chairman and Vice-president of Council. Also, I spent one and one half years on the Bay Village Planning Commission and was a member of the Charter Review Board on two occasions. My wife Barbara and I live in the Oaks North Community. |
| District D | Alamedas, Gatewood, Greens, Trails, 92128 (4 members) |
| John Gomez | A Rancho Bernardo Resident for five years this time. Lived in Rancho Bernardo 25 years ago for 10years but moved to Carlsbad to manage the Merrill Lynch office there. I am a retired naval aviator and a retired securities broker with the US Navy and Merrill Lynch 20+ years at both. My wife, Kathy, is a professor at San Diego State. Three children all grown up and successfully living life and one extraordinary grandson. I have served on the boards of the American Cancer Society, Rancho Family YMCA and the Aztec Athletic Foundation. Presently on the board of the Los Rancheros Kiwanis. MBA from Southern Illinois University and a dedicated fan of the Wisconsin Badgers. |
Richard House |
Born & raised in the mid-west, I moved into Rancho Bernardo initially in 1967, after being discharged from the Marine Corps… then to pursue a BS degree in finance. I worked in commercial and corporate finance, here in San Diego, for 12 years, before deciding to start a business of my own… which focuses upon marketing, and construction within the marine industry. In addition to my serving on Rancho Bernardo’s Planning Board, I also serve as the Board’s liaison to San Diego’s Regional Planning Agency (SANDAG), and to the Community Planners Advisory Committee on Transportation (COMPACT)… as well as serving on the Board’s Traffic & Transportation Committee, their Development & Review Committee, and their Regional Issues Committee. |
Lee Okeson  |
Lee Okeson and his wife, Marlene, have lived in Rancho Bernardo 27 years. He has a graduate degree in city planning and retired as Deputy Director of Planning for the City of San Diego. After retirement, he did planning and development consulting and
served two (2) terms as Chair of the RB Planning Board and a term as Vice Chair of the Community Council. He is a member of the RB Hall of Fame and the Urban Land Institute. Lee’s special interest is maintaining the integrity of the Community Plan,
particularly the industrial park and to be involved in the much needed Plan update. |
Ellen Willis  |
I am a graduate of the University of Mass/Amherst and received a BS degree in Consumer Economics after completing an internship with the San Diego District Attorney’s/Fraud Division. My first experience with local issues was in 1977. I had read a letter to the editor about the city council wanting to ban dogs from all city parks, beaches and adjacent sidewalks. Within a year we had formed a non profit group, produced one of the first ever public service spots on how to clean up after your dog,attended countless City Council and Committee meetings and the rest is history. I saw first hand how one (or two) people can make a difference. I still believe that you can make a difference which is what I hope to contribute to the community of Rancho Bernardo. |
| District E | Seven Oaks, 92128 (2 members) |
Joe Dirks  |
Since moving to RB in ’01, Joe Dirks has served on the Board of Directors for Seven Oaks (as CFO after 1st serving on its Architectural Review Committee), on the RB Community Council (as Treasurer and on its Public Safety & Programs Committees), and on the RB Planning Board (as both Recording & Corresponding Secretaries and on the Election Committee). Joe also is active in CERT, RBERS, Code Compliance and is a member of the Knights of Columbus at San Rafael Church. Joe is a licensed real estate agent and also works p/t at the Meadowbrook Middle School. |
Bill Renstrom  |
Bill B. Renstrom I was born and raised in West Central Minnesota. I was married to MaryAnne in 1947. We made our home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I worked for a farm equipment company in their Mechanical Division and attended company sponsored classes taking various subjects and later Mechanical Engineering. I held classes teaching dexterity. I moved on to Minneapolis Honeywell designing and building gyros and guides systems for torpedoes. And later, built rocket nose cones housing guides systems for NASA. I worked for a company helping to design and build high pressure compressors to operate pneumatic controls for jet aircraft. I then went to Deluxe Corporation where I managed their mechanical and electronic assembly for 23 years. I retired in 1991, and moved to my property in northern Minnesota. I started a unique hobby that is still ongoing in Minnesota. My wife and I also joined several volunteer groups. We were part of a capital campaign to build a new hospital. It was dedicated in 2003. We were also involved in a capital campaign to build a new church. It will be dedicated in August of 2007. I became involved in local government. I was Chair of the Board of Adjustment and also Chair of the Planning and Zoning Board. I also worked closely with the sheriff and law enforcement. I resigned from both Boards the summer of 2003 and we moved to Rancho Bernardo Seven Oaks. I am currently a Senior Volunteer Patrol Officer for the San Diego Police. MaryAnne and I have three daughters and two grandsons who are all married. It is my belief, the knowledge and experience I gained during my working years should not be wasted, but put to use benefiting the local community where ever possible. |
| District F | Bernardo Heights, 92128 (4 members) |
George Leitner  |
George Leitner Experiences that may be pertinent to my goal of helping on the RB Planning Board include: - own Bernardo Village home for fourteen years with wife Mary - served two terms as Treasurer on the BV HOA Board and currently chair the BV Finance Committee - led financial and management aspects of a major BV reconstruction project - help the Community Association of Bernardo Heights Finance Committee - was active with the Government Relations Committee of the Ranch Bernardo (now SD North) Chamber of Commerce - served three terms on the Board of the Diamond Gateway (now SD North) Chamber of Commerce, two as CFO - helped start and later chair the annual Carmel Mountain Ranch Fall Festival street fair - have a metallurgical engineering degree from Lehigh University plus business management studies at Purdue University - held engineering, quality control and production management positions with four corporations in the metals industry - owned and operated a local home furnishing and interior design business for ten years - marketed the services of a local computer repair and consulting business - manage the financial aspects of Mary's Music, an independent teacher of piano, keyboard and voice Some of my other interests are: - travel (especially Europe), tennis, cooking, hiking and sailing - son and granddaughter in Seattle, and daughter in Florida |
Barbara Memering |
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BS/MS in Clinical Psychology. Have been a resident of San Diego since 1956 and have been employed by Pacific Bell as a manager in government communications and as a security officer. Worked with AT&T as a manager of the Bell exhibit in Disneyland and have taught taxes and managed a tax office for a national company. Became licensed in Real Estate in 1969 and still operate my own firm as Ranch Realty-dealing primarily in property management. Moved to Rancho Bernardo in 1973 as a co-owner of ‘Rug Crafters’ in the original Mercado. My husband Roger and I settled in Bernardo Heights in 1986. I have been president of three large social groups, teach and direct duplicate Bridge and am a former board member of AAUW and the San Diego Board of Realtors. We have two adult children and two grand boys attending Purdue in Indiana |
Jean Potosky  |
Originally from Iowa, I moved to California as a child to the region now known as Silicon Valley. I completed my formal schooling in that region including a B.S. degree from the Business Division and an M.A. in Business Education from San Jose State College in the 1960s and additional post-graduate work at Stanford University. I have three teaching credentials issued for Life; one is for secondary education in the subject areas of Business Education and History and two for Community College Instructor in Business and in Real Estate. I taught for years at the community college level in business subjects in Silicon Valley and began a real estate career there 30 years ago. I moved to Rancho Bernardo over 20 years ago and continued and currently work as a Real Estate Broker. I have a current Life Insurance license. Also as a career, I was Stockbroker for six years. After formal college studies were completed, I took art classes and art history classes. I am a member of the San Diego Historical Society and have traveled in Asia and Europe to look at historical sites and art museums. I now develop Internet web sites for my own business use. To support the RB community, I am a member of the Rancho Bernardo Business Association. Presently I am on one committee for the San Diego Association of Realtors. My belief is that learning is a life-long experience and I now take additional computer/technology classes from the Poway Adult School. Over the years I have kept in touch with my generation of family which are my first cousins. One lives in a small town in Wisconsin and the other three live in various regions of Canada. |
Sheryl Schane |
As one of four elected individuals, Sheryl Schane is serving her second year on the Planning Board representing Bernardo Heights. Having previously worked in the building industry in San Diego, and now a small business owner serving her building industry clients, Sheryl’s insight and knowledge in residential and commercial building is an asset at the board level and as an active member of the Development Review Committee, one of five sub-committees of the main planning board. The Development Review Committee is tasked with preserving Rancho Bernardo’s quality of life and adhering to the RB Community Plan as we are faced with the changing residential and commercial needs affecting our neighborhoods. A native of San Diego, Sheryl earned her Bachelors Degree from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). As the President and Principal of her company“ The Event Planner” located in Rancho Bernardo, Sheryl specializes in small to large corporate event planning and trade association fundraisers and conferences. In 2004, Sheryl was nominated for “Event Planner of the Year” by her peers at Meeting Professionals International in San Diego. She is also an active member of the San Diego North Chamber of Commerce and serves as the current President of the high profile business organization, Friends of Downtown. Sheryl and her husband, Marlon, enjoy living in Bernardo Heights where they are able share the wonderful lifestyle of Rancho Bernardo with family and friends. |
| District G | High Country West, Camino Bernardo, 92127 (2 members) |
Kevin Juza |
My name is Kevin Juza. My family and I just moved to Rancho Bernardo a year ago. We moved here from the bay area for better weather and more affordable housing. You can't say that about most places. I have over 12 years in Operational Management and in the process of opening a small business. I have a Masters in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco, and a Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Evansville in Indiana. Previously I was a Board of Trustees of the University of Evansville and recently was on their Alumni Board. I am volunteering to be part of the RB Planning Board to get involved within my community. I appreciate the opportunity to represent District G - Camino Bernardo and High County West on the planning board. |
Myrna Reese |
Myrna and Lou have been residents of Rancho Bernardo since 1980. Together they have five grown children, two grandchildren and three dogs. Myrna and Lou have been in business together since their marriage in 1974 as a full service advertising and public relations agency, Reese Creative Communications. Myrna has an extensive professional background in journalism and public relations as well as acting on stage. She is active in all phases of the agency, including production of TV commercials and video documentaries and coordinating special events. She has served in the RB Community in numerous capacities with the RB Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, CEC, RB Planning Board, RB Community Council, RB Sunrise Rotary Club and RB Toastmasters. Presently Myrna serves as editor of the Spirit of the Fourth 200 Program Book and chair of the PEWTR group (Professional and Executive Women of the Ranch). |
| Appointments | Commercial, Development, Industrial (2 members) |
Greg Aveni (Industrial) |
Greg Aveni is Director of Facilities at Sony Electronics in Rancho Bernardo. Greg provides the planning board with perspective on issues affecting the business community in the Rancho Bernardo industrial park. Greg has over 20 years experience in facilities engineering. |
Conor Boyle (Development)  |
Conor Boyle is a native of the San Diego area and attended high school at Santa Fe Christian in Solana Beach. After high school, Conor attended Occidental College in Los Angeles where he played DIV III NCAA football, was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, and participated in the Army ROTC program. He graduated from Occidental College in 2002 with a BA in History. |
John Woods (Commercial) |
My wife, Michalena, and I have lived in Gatewood for the last four years. We have a son, Tanner. I am an Architect with a Bachelors Degree in Business Finance. My wife, who is a veterinarian, owns Companion Care Veterinary Hospital in Rancho Bernardo which opened in October, 1998. I put myself through school working in an architectural firm and upon graduation decided I liked architecture better. My hobbies include travel, pets, and oddly, architecture and design. I choose Rancho Bernardo because it is like a small midwestern town I was raised in. I got tired of doing projects throughout the country and thought this was a nice place to raise a child (especially as an older parent). |
