Candidate Balik cites business and environmental experience
Hermosa Beach city council candidate Randy Balik with wife Noelle, sons Braden, and Andrew and dog Brooklyn. Photo by Barbara Balik by Dan Blackburn It was time to “give back” to his community, Randy Balik said. So he became one of five candidates for an open seat on Hermosa Beach’s city council. Now, just weeks before the May 11, mail-in election, the long-time city resident and environmental scientist is taking some heat — unwarranted and misunderstood, he asserts — for one of his professional associations, you can see more here. Balik said this week that he has been “hearing an increasing number of people say that I come from ‘big oil’ and am ‘anti-environment.’ This could not be further from the truth. My entire career is the proof.” The ruckus has roiled what had been an essentially amicable joust between the candidates competing for former council member Hany Fangary’s seat, from which he suddenly resigned Christmas Eve 2020. Balik’s objective, he told ER this week, is contributing to his community. “My family was devoted to charitable giving,” he said, “and I grew up knowing that giving back to one’s community is the right thing to do.” It’s that foundation, he added, that…
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