Broad community service part of candidate Marcello's resume
David Marcello, mayoral candidate. Photo By C.T. Kruger
Jan. 13, 2010 | 0 comments
With guiding documents like the recently completed 2035 Comprehensive Plan, the city of Brookfield has a clear path for the future.
Now it's just a matter of getting there, said mayoral candidate David Marcello.
That's why Marcello, a former alderman and former member of the Elmbrook School Board, wants to lead the city for the next four years.
"We have some great visions and some great plans to get us where we want to go … but we really need people who can communicate effectively and engage the community (to get there)," Marcello said.
Open government desired
Marcello, 51, said he is running to give Brookfield another choice at the ballot box, someone who will take a fiscally responsible approach to budgeting and retain the city's top-notch services.
He said his work on the School Board (2008-09) and on the Common Council (1992-98) under former Mayor Kathryn Bloomberg taught him a lot about how government works.
Marcello said he would take what he learned while serving with those groups and apply it to working with the city's 14 aldermen.
"They need to be led," he said. "They need to be shown how they can function together."
The mayor's office should be made more open to residents, he said, and he suggested either holding face-to-face meetings or frequently corresponding with constituents to address their concerns.
"That's what a good civil servant does, they communicate with people and they keep them informed," he said.
Moving on from controversy
Marcello had questions of his own to answer before his 2008 election to the School Board, including concerns about a 2002 incident in which he was charged with battery to a 14-year-old boy.
He complied with the terms of a deferred prosecution agreement, and the charges were dismissed in 2004.
In 2003, he was found guilty of criminal damage to property and paid a $132 fine after he and his son attempted to dispose of an old outhouse by stuffing it with leaves and starting it on fire, according to court records.
Marcello said he regrets the incidents. "It's certainly not something that defines me as a person," he said.
Heavy involvement in church
Marcello is a lifelong member of St. Dominic Church and has been involved in choir, parent volunteering, the church's prayer and worship committee, and coaching basketball at the church and the parish school.
He also established a seedling garden there, and he has supplied seedlings to Brookfield East High School's nature center, Voigt Soccer Park and parks and streetscapes across the city.
The Candidate
DAVID MARCELLO
ADDRESS: 4695 Danbury Drive
EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984, bachelor's in secondary education with a major in communications
PHONE: (262) 783-6857
E-MAIL: dmarcello@wi.rr.com
WEB SITE: marcelloformayor.com
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