Marin County Board of Supervisors, District 5

What does a county supervisor do? 

Supervisors govern county programs and departments and approve the county budget. Their largest area of spending is traditionally healthcare and human services. Supervisors are also responsible for local jails and elections, and they make decisions on law enforcement and housing in unincorporated areas of the county. If a supervisor candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the primary, they take office for a four-year term. Otherwise, the top two candidates face off in the November general election.

Candidate Statements

Candidate Statements are excerpted from the statements provided to election offices, where available.

Curtis Aikens

  • Chef, educator, author
  • Leadership: “I’m running for supervisor because Marin deserves leadership grounded in real life – leadership that listens, shows respect, and brings people together to solve problems. As a chef, educator, and author, my life’s work has been about teaching, service, and opportunity.”
  • Fiscal responsibility: “Curtis built multiple successful businesses. He knows what it takes to meet payroll, manage tight budgets, and deliver results. He’ll bring that same fiscal discipline and accountability to managing Marin County’s $700+ million budget.”
  • A healthy community: “Healthy communities start with healthy people. Food access, preventive healthcare, environmental quality and mental health support aren’t luxuries—they’re foundations of thriving neighborhoods. Curtis has spent his career teaching families that good nutrition and healthy living are accessible to everyone. He’ll bring that same commitment to ensuring District 5 residents have what they need to thrive—not just survive.”

Chris Carpiniello

  • Homebuilder, business owner
  • Defending rights: “A lifelong Christian, faithful husband of 35 years, musician and always a defender of Liberty, and our God-given rights, as affirmed in the Declaration of Independence. No government has the authority to alter or remove these rights from us.”
  • Taking on ‘special interests’: “In Marin, special interest groups, lobbyists, and Sacramento’s one-sided political goals are prioritized over constituent’s concerns. This is why I am running! To be a voice for the silent, the taxpayers, small businesses, property owners, parents, ranchers, and others who have been silenced and ignored.”
  • Agenda: “I will stand for election security, deregulation, abundant resources, affordability, and local sovereignty. I will defend Liberty, our U.S. Constitution and oppose health and housing mandates. I will support an increase in our water supply and work to help restore Marin’s besieged agricultural community.”

Andy Podshadley

  • Business owner, winemaker
  • ‘Marin Lifer’: “For me, Marin has always been about beauty, opportunity, families and community. I discovered my love of nature in Marin, started my first business here, met my wife here, raised our kids here, and have been inspired by so many members of the community over the years.”
  • Action on Homelessness: “Marin has taken a hopeless approach for years to our homeless crisis. We spend money, we mean well, we congratulate ourselves on minuscule improvements, but we don’t approach the crisis from a place of hope. I firmly believe we need to offer hope as well as help, have actionable goals, and demand accountability to see real change.”
  • ‘Community-Oriented Pragmatism’: “My campaign is all about Marin. This isn’t a campaign about “Andy,” this isn’t a campaign about me running for a paycheck or promising the moon and the stars regardless of what is actually part of the job of County Supervisor. … I’m not about big promises, I’m about pragmatic solutions and hard work.”

Marc Hunter Lewis

  • Community policy advocate
  • Transparency: “Democracy requires visibility. Our community funds agencies through taxes, fees, and assessments, yet nowhere can we see what the system costs or how it all fits together. When one community pays for the system, that community deserves to see it.”
  • Fiscal accountability: “Within 180 days I will deliver a cost recovery audit across every District 5 agency. I will launch a quarterly forum so city, county, school, fire, water, and sanitary leaders coordinate in public, not in silos. I will build a fiscal dashboard where residents can see what each agency collects and spends. I will establish an independent county investigator to make accountability permanent.”
  • Affordable housing: Advocates “shared-equity workforce housing for Novato teachers and civic workers using a community land trust and deed-restriction model for permanent affordability, local workforce retention and a more stable path to homeownership for the public-serving employees who keep Novato functioning.”

Magali Limeta

  • Trustee, Novato Unified School District 
  • Priorities: “My priorities reflect the needs of our community: fiscal oversight, safeguarding healthcare and other vital public services, wildfire prevention, more affordable homes that fit our community, continuing Marin County’s environmental leadership and elevating Novato’s needs at the county level.”
  • Transparency: “As Novato school board president, I represent one of the largest employers in Novato. I know what it takes to responsibly manage budgets, and I will make sure that our county government is a responsible steward of the tax dollars you’ve entrusted us with. I also support sunshine laws that bring greater transparency to how local governments operate. We are public servants accountable to you!”
  • Housing: “I will fight for more affordable homes for seniors and families, and support unhoused neighbors in rebuilding their lives. On the Novato school board, we are advancing affordable workforce housing — and I’m ready to do even more at the county level.”

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