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2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):
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3. Are you the incumbent? No
4. How long have you resided in this district/city?
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6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Nonpartisan
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1. Beginning with the most recent position, please list public offices which you have held. Include positions on appointive Boards or Commissions.
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2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:
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In this section, we are seeking responses that reflect the four ratings criteria: involvement, effectiveness, character, and knowledge. These are defined as follows:
1. In a page or less, why are you running for this office? (Note: the interview committee will be given a copy of this statement before your interview; at the beginning of your interview you will have the opportunity to expand on this statement in any way you wish.)
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I have been involved in this movement ever since coming
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I care passionately about communicating with the public and educating people about the issues that affect their homes, their families, and the nieghborhoods they live in.
It has been a pleasure to be involved with this movement because it has been a grassroots movement that simply did its work differently than any other public agency in recent memory.
I am running for Monorail Board because I want to ensure that this new public agency we have created maintains that grassroots character and continues to place Transparency, Accountability, and Public Involvement at the top of its list of goals. |
2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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Simply put, I am passionate about working to improve my community. I love to talk with my neighbors, friends, colleagues -- and sometimes even perfect strangers -- about ways we can make life better for everyone.
I am committed to the values of youth and diversity, and I particularly support issues related to education and health. |
3. Please describe in sufficient detail, one to three accomplishments or contributions of which you are most proud. These examples should illustrate effective skills and capabilities you think apply to the office you are seeking. These accomplishments may have occurred at any time in your personal, professional, or public life.
4. Please list or describe your current and past activities in the community in which you have acquired skills that relate to the office you seek. Include your role in the activity and the year(s) in which you were involved. Involvement consists of many areas such as family, neighborhood, community, employment, or public life.
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The activities that most relate to my seeking office on the Monorail Board would have to be my involvement in community support groups such as Friends of the Monorail and Rise Above It All and my Staff work for the Elevated Transportation Company (2001-2002), the planning agency that created the Seattle Popular Monorail Plan that was approved by voters last year.
In my time in
I am a graduate of the Institute for a Democratic
Future's Class of 2002. IDF is an organization started by young Democratic
Party leaders in our state which runs annual programs for new leaders and
professionals. It encourages Democratic Party support and leadership
development by taking us around the state to meet with electeds
at all levels, Party officials, and agency staff members in order to become
educated on the crucial issues facing Washington residents today from health
to the environment to transportation to taxes and more. It culminates in a
trip to the "other
Finally, I volunteer extensively with local festivals and organizations from the Summer Microbrew Festival to One Reel's Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival because I love to give back to the community I am in and to help others have safe, fun activities to be involved in.
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In accordance with the Plan approved by
That is a pretty extensive charge to follow. The current Board members have adopted six goals for the project: • On time. • Under budget. • Break even on operations • Excellent design • True to grassroots history • Transparency and accountability to public
My concerns -- which led me to run for this office -- are that the agency is beginning to forget the last two goals as it slowly builds a brand new transportation government here in the city. |
EDUCATION BACKGROUND SUMMARY
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report is distributed to voters in print and/or on our website. It includes a summary of the candidate’s education. Please summarize your education in 120 characters (letters, punctuation, and space all combined). The League will delete material that exceeds the space limit by beginning with the last entry. Suggested order is (degree) (subject) (school) (year, if desired).
Note: If this question is left blank the League will not include education information in your candidate profile.
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B.A. in History, |
FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report also includes a summary of each candidate’s civic involvement. Please summarize your civic involvement in the space below. We will make every attempt to include the information in the Candidate Evaluation Report as submitted. Due to space restrictions in the Report, your response is limited to 500 characters (letters, punctuation, and spaces all combined). It is important that you list your involvement beginning with the most important and ending with the least important. If you exceed the length of response permitted, or if the League should find it necessary to shorten responses for publication purposes, deletions will be made beginning with the last item listed.
Note: This information will appear verbatim on the League’s Candidate Evaluation Report. If this question is left blank, the Municipal League will not include information on your civic involvement in the Report.
Check here if you would like the Municipal League to copy the first 500 characters from Question 4 to paste into this section.
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It has been my privilege to interact by phone, e-mail, and face-to-face with hundreds of Seattleites in an attempt to answer their questions, record public comments, and help them to be involved in this effort to build a monorail system in that will help citizens rise above traffic and move around the city. I have been actively involved as a community activist, trying to ensure that the agency remains faithful to its grassroots base and maintains its goals of transparency and accountability.
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Finished!
If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (rebecca@munileague.org). Mail and fax numbers are listed below. If the League has not contacted you to schedule an interview, please call the League office at your earliest convenience.
Don’t forget to send the following to the Municipal League: a resume, a photo, campaign literature, and, if you are an incumbent, constituent newsletters and other materials. Please use the check-off list on the cover sheet of this packet to indicate which items you have sent.
Candidate Evaluation Coordinator: Rebecca Cooper