Citizens become frustrated, Arnie Kubiak says, when their expectations of the city’s rules and policies turn out not to be realized.

To end the frustration, he said, either the rules and policies or the expectations must change.

“The city’s rules need to reflect what people think they should be, or if that’s not within the boundaries of the law, they have to know why,” Kubiak said.

Kubiak, a Manzanita neighborhood activist and president of the environmentally oriented Association of Bainbridge Communities, filed Friday for the at-large seat on the Bainbridge Island City Council.

Kubiak, who works for an Eastside firm that makes and installs industrial speakers, joins retired television producer Kit Spier, printing-firm manager Larry Johnson and business consultant Nezam Tooloee in the race for the all-island seat left vacant when incumbent Michael Pollock filed instead in the city’s southwest ward.

Like the other candidates for the position, Kubiak said he is more interested in listening to the views of the citizenry than articulating a specific agenda.

“I want to try to represent the interests of the whole island,” he said.

While he said he wants to “get the ordinances cleaned up” and create greater consistency in enforcement, he acknowledges that he has no specifics in mind, but rather, is more interested in creating consistency between popular sentiment and results.

“What the community seems to want is not reflected in the outcomes,” he said.

Overall, Kubiak gives the city reasonably high marks for its efforts in a number of environmentally related areas.

On watershed preservation, an area where Kubiak has been personally active as part of the city’s watershed stewardship program, he says the city has done a good job.

“The biggest problem for fish has been the lack of gravel for spawning caused by dredging,” he said. “It’s coming along slowly, but I’ve been happy with what the city has done so far.”

He is similarly pleased with the steps that have been taken to preserve open space. He is less happy with the efforts to preserve farmland, although that, he acknowledges, presents a difficult problem because of the economic challenges facing farming.

Nor is he overly alarmed about growth.

“The population has doubled in the 18 years I have lived here, and that seems like a lot, but in recent years, it seems like growth is more under control. The island still has a community feeling to it.”

Kubiak said he generally favors the concept of more-dense population in Winslow and lower density in the outlying areas, although he does not know if the 50-50 division called for in the Comprehensive Plan is workable. And he is uncertain that growth is something that the council can really control.

“You have to work within the laws of the state,” he said. “There is only so much one person can do.”

Other than acknowledge that his approach to problems might be somewhat more environmentally oriented than that of other candidates, Kubiak said he has not yet formulated any specific policy positions. Instead, he proffers his overall experience to voters.

“I’ve worked with governments, and I know what’s possible,” he said. “And through ABC, I have experience as an advocate for the people.”