1. Economy -- Mayor Golding helped to establish San Diego as "business friendly" by instituting a "one-stop shopping" policy for permits, cutting the business tax, placing a moratorium on new business regulations, and pushing for infrastructure to make San Diego the most cabled city in America.

2. International Trade -- Golding signed a binational agreement with the city of Tijuana to permit ongoing coordination between the neighboring cities in matters of public safety, environmental protection and facilities planning. She also opened a trade office in Asia, and brought a World Trade Center franchise to San Diego.

3. Conservation -- Golding helped set aside 52,000 acres in San Diego as part of 174,000-acre reserve in the County of San Diego for the protection of 85 endangered or sensitive species of plants and animals. The Multiple Species Conservation Plan links such areas in the city as Penasquitos Canyon, Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Dieguito River Valley, San Pasqual Valley, Black Mountain, and Mission Trails Park, while creating new preserve areas along the Tijuana River and Otay River Valley, on Del Mar Mesa and Carmel Mountain.

4. School Safety -- Golding successfully lobbied the San Diego Unified School District to require students to eat their lunches on campus, and to keep their facilities open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. In order to provide a safe place for children. Additionally, she pushed through the City Council a Juvenile Daytime Loitering Ordinance, which makes parents responsible for truant children.

5. Crime -- Golding funded hundreds of new police officer positions, initiated 24-hour bicycle and walking patrols in Balboa Park and the Gaslamp Quarter, established a child safety gun law, and fashioned ordinances against public consumption of alcohol, gang loitering and production of methamphetamine. She also pushed successfully for a 10 p.m. Youth curfew.

6. Neighborhoods -- Golding created 15 neighborhood service centers, or "mini city halls," where citizens can pay bills and obtain city permits and licenses without traveling downtown. There were seven new branch libraries built during her eight years in office.

7. Homeless -- Golding helped to create the city's first inclement weather shelter for the homeless. She raised the amount of funding for homeless related projects from $3.7 million in 1993 to nearly $6 million in the 2001 budget. A year round emergency shelter that can accommodate 50 families will be constructed next year. She helped to fund a 100-bed facility to serve the severely mentally ill among the homeless.

--- Donald H. Harrison