21 Facts About Mark Kersey

Mark Kersey was elected in June 2012 and re-elected in June 2016.

Mark Kersey is a native of Columbus, Ohio, and moved to the San Diego area in 2001.

Mark Kersey received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Northwestern University and took courses in entrepreneurship and management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Mark Kersey unsuccessfully ran for the Solana Beach City Council in 2004.

Mark Kersey's candidacy was supported by the Beach and Bluff Conservancy, a local homeowners' group that supported building seawalls to protect their property.

In 2011, Mark Kersey announced that he would run for San Diego City Council in the 2012 election.

Mark Kersey was part of a co-ordinated three-person slate supported by the local Republican Party in an attempt to gain a Republican majority on the nine-member board.

Mark Kersey ran unopposed for the District 5 seat being vacated by the retiring councilmember Carl DeMaio.

Mark Kersey chairs the Infrastructure Committee, is vice chair of the Economic Development and Intergovernmental Relations Committee, and is a member of the Budget and Finance Committee and Charter Reform Committee.

Mark Kersey is the city's representative to the California League of Cities.

Mark Kersey has been called San Diego's "open data and infrastructure guy".

Mark Kersey held in this position until December 2017, when he was succeeded by Barbara Bry.

Mark Kersey was unable to seek re-election to the city council in 2020 due to term limits.

Mark Kersey left office on December 10,2020, and was succeeded by Marni von Wilpert.

Mark Kersey was chosen to chair a newly formed infrastructure committee to address the city's backlog of needed repairs which had built up over decades.

Mark Kersey sponsored an ordinance to create a neighborhood input policy which was approved in July 2013.

Mark Kersey authored Proposition H in 2016 devoting over a billion dollars in future sales tax growth and pension savings towards repairing the city's infrastructure without raising taxes.

Mark Kersey supported an open data initiative to "increase accountability and spur innovation" by putting the city's data online for the public.

Mark Kersey co-authored a draft open data policy and voted to create an ad hoc committee to review and develop a formal policy to be adopted by the City of San Diego.

In 2018, Mark Kersey sponsored Measure L, which amended the City Charter regarding ethics and compensation for elected city officers.

In December 2017, Mark Kersey formally announced his candidacy for the California State Senate to succeed fellow Republican Joel Anderson, who is barred by term limits from seeking another term.