Olema resident Dennis Rodoni says he will run for supervisor in District 4, in a race that now has eight people seeking to replace Steve Kinsey. “It’s a done deal,” Mr. Rodoni, the owner of Rodoni Construction and a longtime board member of North Marin Water District, said yesterday.
On Tuesday he filed paperwork to start collecting signatures for his bid; every signature reduces the $1,113 filing fee by 25 cents.
Mr. Rodoni, who unsuccessfully challenged Mr. Kinsey over a decade ago, said that late last year he had decided not to run. But supporters—including Inverness resident Jerry Meral, who started an online petition to persuade him to run—helped changed his mind.
Mr. Rodoni and Sean Scullion, a realtor from West Novato, are the two most recent individuals who have started collecting signature for a run.
While running for a seat on the North Marin Water District’s board in 1995, Mr. Rodoni said he walked 90 hours around the neighborhoods of his 30,000 or so constituents, meeting and greeting individuals as he went. It’s this sort of effort, he said, that won him the seat he’s held now for two decades.
“It seemed to work,” he said. “Then the realities of being elected to a public agency begin to sink in.”