Hi I’m Paula Deacon Garcia and I’m running for the DuPage County Board in District 2.

I have lived most of my life in the Village of Lisle – I have raised 2 grown children, Chris and Amanda and have been happily married to my husband Larry for 36 years.

I have a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Public Relations from Illinois State University. For the past 20 years I have worked for a local municipality – working mostly with building permits, zoning and helping business owners and residents get the information they need. I have experience as a Certified Floodplain Manager and was very involved in helping the people that were affected by the past decade’s floods.

This is my first time running for an office, I decided that instead of yelling at the television and talking about why isn’t there a change – I would try and make the change happen. I was successful in 1994 petitioning my local village to treat the maintenance of streets equally and I am proud to say the street maintenance program that I helped spearhead is still in place today.