Brenda Ford is a candidate for the 2006 Hawaii County Council Elections. She has defeated the incumbent Virginia Isbell in a non-partisan primary. However, Brenda did not gain a majority and is facing a runoff in the November 7th general election.

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Ford has extensive experience as an advocate for community health, safety, and welfare.

She and her husband, Larry, are former co-directors of the Hawai'i Island American Red Cross disaster reponse.

Ford is a co-founder and board member of the South Kona Emergency Response Team (SKERT). SKERT is funded by the Department of Homeland Security. Using New Orleans as an example of bad planning, the organization works to ensure that local preparations are sufficient to sustain quality of life for South Kona residents until sufficient outside assistance can arrive in Hawai'i.

Ford is also the Neighborhood Watch co-ordinator for South Kona and member of the Flooding Natural Hazard Working Group of the Kona Community Development Plan process.

Last year, the United States Supreme Court refused Ford's appeal of the redistricting map adopted by the Hawai'i County 2001 Reapportionment Commission, even though the Commission's map violated prior US Supreme Court decisions.

Ford asked the Hawai'i County Council last year to require developer's to build affordable housing rather than being allowed to pay discounted cash fees. As a result, there is no current inventory nor are there current plans for construction of housing, public or private, priced less than $250,000.