Kara Lambert: Candidate profile

Bio

Name: Kara Lambert

City: Mundelein

Office sought: Village Trustee

Age: 33

Family: Married and 1 child who is 2

Occupation: Sales and Service Manager Goldfish Swim School

Education: MBA with a concentration in international business Roosevelt University, BS in international relations Central Michigan University

Civic involvement:

Previous elected offices held: none

Incumbent? If yes, when were you first elected? N/A

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Facebook: Facebook.com/karalambert

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Issue questions

What are the most important issues facing your community and how do you intend to address them?

Keeping Mundelein a thriving community for the young families that live here.

What makes you the best candidate for the job?

As a life long resident and now raising my own family here I see how important it is to be business friendly and to attract fun and unique businesses to our community. I have a vested interest in this community and want to ensure that it grows and thrives!

Describe your leadership style and explain how you think that will be effective in producing actions and decisions with your village board or city council.

I am a collaborative leader making sure I hear and truly understand all view points before a decision can be made.

How would you describe the condition of your community's budget, and what are the most important specific actions the town should take to assure providing the level of services people want? While the budget of the community is balanced currently I believe if we can attract new businesses and increase revenue it will allow the village to offer better services (snow removal, trash pickup, leaf pickup,).

What's one good idea you have to better the community that no one is talking about yet? Ensuring that young families are heard. The median age of Mundelein is 37 years old we need to make sure that these families are satisfied with the businesses that are moving into town.