COCOTAX INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A BOARD/MEMBERS LUNCHEON MEETING ON FRIDAY JUNE 28, 2024 AT 11:45 AM
The Contra Costa Taxpayers Association (CoCoTax) invites you to attend a LUNCHEON Board /Members Meeting at Denny’s Restaurant 1313 Willow Pass Road, Concord, on Friday JUNE 28, 2024 at 11:45 am. Please register in advance online on the CoCoTax website where you can pay online, or bring cash or check on Friday and pay at the door-$25 for members, $30 for guests.
INTRODUCIING KRISTIN B. CONNELLY, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
CLERK-RECORDER AND REGISTRAR OF VOTERS
Kristin B. Connelly began her term as Contra Costa County’s Clerk-Recorder and Registrar of Voters on January 3, 2023, she oversees approximately 72 employees that work in both the Clerk-Recorder’s Division and the Elections Division. With respect to the Elections Division, Kristin has spent her first fifteen months in office focused on increasing access to voting, ensuring transparency about elections processes, and battling misinformation about voting. She also proudly promotes the important work of the Clerk-Recorder Division which handles hundreds of thousands of property transactions and vital records each year. In her role as Commissioner of Civil Marriages, Kristin is honored to have officiated wedding ceremonies as part of her department’s Destination Weddings program both at the summit of Mount Diablo and at the COBRA Experience Museum.
Prior to being elected Clerk-Recorder, Kristin worked as President and CEO of the East Bay leadership Council (EBLC) and the Executive Director of the contra Costa Economic Partnership (CCEP) for more than 8 years. Through her leadership of EBLC and CCEP, Kristin proudly served as a founding Executive Committee member of the Ensuring Opportunity Campaign to end poverty in Contra Costa County.
Kristin served on the Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board starting in 2018 when she was elected to a two-year term and was re-elected in 2020. In 2022 Kristin served as President of the AUHSD Governing Board.
A native of Martinez, Kristin earned a law degree from Fordham, a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown and a Bachelors in Political Science from UCLA, as a Frank H. Buck Scholar. Kristin is a proud graduate of College Park High School in Pleasant Hill. She practiced employment law at the firm of Sidley Austin LLP in New York City. Kristin is grateful to be raising her two teenage children in Contra Costa County with her husband, T.J.
With all of the political discussions about the process of eligibility and registering to vote, voting, and security in counting ballots, this is a presentation you will want to hear.
