Marguerite Young has served Ward 3 for more than a decade, and she has spent that time on the critical work of keeping a century-old water and wastewater system funded, maintained, and replaced before it fails. She has backed sustained investment in aging pipeline and treatment infrastructure, and paired it with attention to affordability — expanding customer assistance, supporting an end to water shutoffs, and pushing to get lead out of school drinking water.

Her background in clean water advocacy shows in how she governs. Watershed protection, water quality, and climate resilience are treated as core utility business rather than add-ons.

You might hear:

“Rates keep going up every year. What are we actually getting for it?”

A ten-year commitment of $1.9B to replace the aging pipeline. Young has consistently voted to do that work on a schedule rather than in an emergency, and to expand assistance for the households least able to absorb the cost in the meantime.

Source (https://www.empoweroakland.com/voter-guide#ebmud-w3)