Vote for Marci Woodward, Palm Beach County Commission, District 4. On Election Day you vote at your assigned polling place, so check yours first.
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Elected in 2022, she is now the county’s Vice Mayor. She leads the boards that run our trains and our trash and recycling, and she has spent her first term on homeownership, transportation and protecting open land.
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She is advancing a master plan for the county and its 39 cities.
She is advancing the Countywide Transportation Master Plan. PBC bio
She found that with all the city, county and state planning, “no one’s talking to each other,” and got behind a master plan for the county and its 39 cities. When commissioners criticized the consultants, she urged them to give it time: “It’s a beginning.” WLRN
Elected unanimously to lead the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority.
The SFRTA board, which runs Tri-Rail, elected her chair unanimously. Florida Trend SFRPC bio
She also sits on the Executive Committee of the Palm Beach TPA/MPO, the county’s transportation planning agency. PBC bio
Up to $50,000 in matching help toward a first home.
She led the effort to create the county’s Homebuyer Match Program. PBC bio
She shifted affordable-housing money used mainly to build rental apartments into down-payment help for buyers, to keep younger workers here. WLRN
It matches a buyer’s own savings dollar for dollar, up to $50,000, funded by fees developers pay instead of building workforce housing. The first home closed in June 2026. CBS12
Part of the 4–3 majority that kept development out.
She was in the 4–3 majority that rejected a land swap that would have allowed more development in the Agricultural Reserve, which aims to limit development west of Florida’s Turnpike in south county. “If we just keep saying yes to everything, I don’t know where this place ends up.” WLRN
No to the AI hyperscale data center at 20-Mile Bend.
She voted against the project and agreed with opponents that county rules did not contemplate a data center that could be a colossal drain on resources. WLRN
A public ocean park on county land in Highland Beach.
She pushed the county’s planned ocean park forward after parks officials lined up developer impact fees that could only go to that park. Archaeological studies required by a 2010 settlement identified the beachfront as a Native American burial ground and early settlement area. “It deserves to be protected.” WLRN
Connecting residents to the jobs new companies bring.
She works with CareerSource, business leaders and schools so residents can get the new jobs created by companies moving to the county. SFRPC bio PBC bio
She serves on the CareerSource Palm Beach County board. PBC bio
She leads the agency that runs the county’s trash and recycling.
She chairs the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County. PBC bio
Cutting long-vacant positions and using technology to run leaner.
She has described work to find savings, eliminate long-vacant county positions and use technology to run more efficiently. Boca Raton Tribune
District 4 includes parts of Boynton Beach, Delray Beach and Boca Raton and the barrier islands from South Palm Beach to Highland Beach. WLRN Only District 4 voters elect this seat. Tap a town.
Boundaries: Palm Beach County GIS, County Commission Districts and Municipal Boundaries layers. District layer Municipal layer The county says District 4 represents 13 municipalities; its District 4 City Watch page names these 12, the same 12 the county GIS places inside the district. District 4 City Watch
Her opponent is Curtis Calabrese, a Democrat, a former Navy pilot and now a United Airlines pilot. WLRN His positions here come only from WLRN’s reporting. We could not find his candidate questionnaire published anywhere, so where WLRN reports no position, we say so.
“This is county land. It’s the last beach property that we have down here and it’s really special.” She says the county must meet the 43 conditions of a 2010 legal settlement, and that environmental permits are the last holdup to construction. WLRN
He says the park isn’t needed, the beachfront is small and hazardous, and A1A is too busy for beachgoers to cross; for safety, the county would need to tunnel under it. He criticized her for deciding too quickly. The Milani family, which opposes the park as planned, gave his campaign a combined $13,000, per WLRN. WLRN Official reports now show $38,000; see Follow the money.
The swap would have allowed more development in the Agricultural Reserve. “If we just keep saying yes to everything, I don’t know where this place ends up.” WLRN
WLRN reports that he supports the Ag Reserve. He has not held county office, so there is no voting record to compare. WLRN
She agreed with opponents that county rules did not contemplate a data center that could be a colossal drain on resources. WLRN
WLRN reports that he opposes the Project Tango AI hyperscale data center. WLRN
She joined the Tri-Rail board, which she went on to chair, and the county’s Metropolitan Planning Organization, then got behind a transportation master plan for the county and its 39 cities. “It’s a beginning.” WLRN
WLRN’s profile of the race does not report a transportation position for him, and we could not find his questionnaire published. WLRN
She shifted affordable-housing money used mainly to build rental apartments into down-payment assistance for homebuyers, to keep younger workers here. WLRN Homebuyer Match matches savings up to $50,000; the first home closed in June 2026. CBS12
WLRN’s profile of the race does not report a housing position for him, and we could not find his questionnaire published. WLRN
In April 2022, Florida Politics reported that Calabrese had filed to run as a Democrat in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, but had been registered as a Democrat in Florida only since March 14 of that year; before that he was registered as a Republican. Florida law requires candidates to be members of their party for 365 days before qualifying begins, and the candidate oath includes that attestation. Calabrese said state elections staff had told him his Democratic registration in California met the requirement. Florida Politics, Apr. 2022 (archived)
In June 2022, Florida Politics reported that he had already signed an oath attesting to 365 days of party membership, and that he had filed a termination report with the Federal Election Commission, ending his campaign. Florida Politics, Jun. 2022 (archived)
WLRN reported $13,000 from the family, his largest source of money outside his own loans. WLRN The official reports now show $38,000 from the family and its company.
Only official campaign-finance reports: his campaign account, filed with the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections through Oct. 29, 2026 PBC Elections reports, and JET PAC, a Florida political committee whose chairperson is Curtis Calabrese FL Elections: JET PAC record.
Monetary contributions to both accounts, May 2025 through Oct. 29, 2026; in-kind contributions ($4,563.22, mostly from the two parties) are not charted. Candidate loans and his own contributions are counted under “his own money.” Amended report lines are netted. Location uses each contributor’s reported ZIP code. The Milani company’s link to the family comes from Florida’s corporate registry. FL Division of Corporations
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