Belmont Resident and Small Business Owner for 25 years
I've been a homeowner, a renter, a college student, a single adult, a community leader, a community activist, a small business owner, a volunteer, a public school parent, a private school parent, a pet owner, a non-pet owner, a wife, and a mom — all in Belmont.
Moving into the apartments on Carlmont after graduating from our local university, my husband and I began investing in our community through our activism in the Lions Club. Once we moved into our home in Homeview, I became the President of our Neighborhood Association and began learning how city processes worked. After ten years, I became a Planning Commissioner, and now I’m in the City Council.
Through my students volunteering at the annual Save the Music Festival, I was able to integrate my community service life with my small business. The Latimerlo Studio (latimerlo.com) has been training students to sing since 1998 here in Belmont, and my singers have been both adolescent students from every school here, as well as amazing adults from lots of different walks of life.
By continuing to listen to the voices throughout our community and referencing my own experiences here in Belmont over the past 25 years — and by engaging in creative problem solving — I'll help our community figure out ways to use our land, property, spaces, and processes to better the life experiences of everyone in our fantastic community by the bay. Contact me at glatimerlo@belmont.gov to share your ideas and opinions!
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Priorities
1. Staying ahead of the curve in development projects: Belmont is in a time of growth and transition. District 1 is the both the center of growth and the heart of the commercial and residential communities in Belmont. Let’s make sure we have a true revitalization that works for both the current and future populations of Belmont.
2. Creating pipelines to leadership for leaders of diverse backgrounds: I’ve spent my life empowering voices, and I intend to continue that tradition with special attention to the voices that are often unheard. This includes increasing voter turnout, as well as creating new opportunities for leadership.
3. Accessibility to city government: Including improving communication between residents and city government, encouraging true two-way engagement, making sure all voices are heard, and becoming more responsive to residents through a village approach.
4. Keep Belmont’s Open Space open to everyone: Sharing the land and open space has been the lesson of the last couple of centuries. It’s important to ensure that everyone has equal access to our greenest resources.
5. Continuing to focus on improving infrastructure with our roads, sewers, and storm drains: Our infrastructure sat idly degrading for a number of decades before work starting on them a few years ago. It’s important to keep moving of the repair of our concrete resources.
Belmont Community Service Award & Mayoral Proclamation
2019
Belmont Planning Commissioner
2021-2022
Proud Current Carlmont and Former Nesbit Puma Parent & Volunteer
Homeview Neighborhood Association President
2009-2019
Belmont Small Business Owner
1998-present
Notre Dame de Namur University Alum