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Tom Bates has brought a lifetime of public service to the Mayor's office ? including four years as an Alameda County Supervisor and two decades as a California legislator representing Berkeley.

Now serving in his eighth year as Mayor and one of the founding partners of the East Bay Green Corridor, he has focused tremendous effort and resources on building Berkeley into a national environmental powerhouse. Under his leadership, the City became the first in the nation to share its fleet vehicles with the public as part of a partnership with City CarShare and passed a new law requiring all city buildings be built to green standards.

Mayor Bates helped to pass Berkeley's award-winning Climate Action Plan with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by the year 2050. Mayor Bates also co-created the innovative renewable energy program, Berkeley FIRST, which was developed to overcome several of the major hurdles of renewable energy adoption and garnered worldwide attention.

Currently, Mayor Bates serves on the Bay Area Air Quality Management Board, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Regional Airport Planning Committee, and the Joint Policy Committee. He is the acting chair of the East Bay Green Corridor.

Mayor Bates is married to former Mayor of Berkeley and California State Senator Loni Hancock. Their family includes four children, Casey, Jon, Mara and Leita and seven grandchildren.

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Nils Moe currently serves as Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates' Senior Aide. In this role, one of Nils' responsibilities is helping to implement Berkeley's Climate Action Plan and working with the city staff and the community to reduce their GHG emissions. During the last ten years he has been working as a professor of Organizational Psychology at San Francisco State University and a faculty member of the MPA and MBA in Sustainable Management programs at the Presidio Graduate School.

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