1. Name as it will appear on the ballot
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2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):
3. Are you the incumbent? Yes No
4. How long have you resided in this district/city?
5. How long have you resided in King County?
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36 years |
6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
CAMPAIGN CONTACTS
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John Albertson for Bellevue |
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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 received continuing encouragement from the over 6,500 people who voted for me in the 2003 election.
I am well-informed about my community and the region, I have a clear vision about how I can impact the state of the community we will leave to future generations.
I continue to believe strongly that many of our elected officials are unreasonably influenced by their various contributors and end-benficiaries of municipal capital construction and professional services contracts.
I have substantial construction divisions project estimating, auditing and course-of-construction audit experience. I see scarce public funding being squandered with minimal oversight or outright obviation.
I know I can have a substantial postive impact and change people's perception and reality of how city government can improve their lives.
I have very humble origins and experiences that I draw from as a well of strength and as a source of seeing the glass half-full, I have proper empathy for the hardships and challenges people face in their lives.
I am plainly not a resume-builder in the traditional sense, but I will place the depth and value of my 29 years of adult work and life experience up against any other candidate or incumbent.
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2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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High itegrity, truthful, seeking to understand the truth in approaches other than mine.
Perseverant and courageous.
Flexible and open to new concepts, fostering ideas into valid actions.
Diligent, rarely found to be unprepared for the work at hand.
Ability to examine multiple information points, then weigh and consider multiple outcomes of a decision, then follow through to inspect the end result.
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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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As a resident of Bellevue for 36 years, and a citizen and worker in the Puget Sound Region for nearly 3 decades, I sincerely offer a unique amount of practical and logical hard-earned insight and wisdom that I will bring to serve for the benefit of my community.
My most visible community activities included coaching youth sports while raising young children, and responding as a Search and Rescue Volunteer from 1986 to 2003.
As a technology planner working for Microsoft from 1991 to present, I have supported scores of businesses and have worked in numerous areas of high shareholder valued responsibility, including areas involving personal privacy infromation protection.
From 2000 to present, I have been engaged in the self-initiated citizen activity of oversighting the way Bellevue City government runs, how it manages large scale project and operating finances, it's ratio of staffing to population and budget, it's expanding debt load and financial accounting practices, and it's growing regional leadership responsibility. I have had to summon the political courage to question the government when and where appropriate.
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Direct idialouge and representation for the combined interests of citizens, community leaders, business owners and representatives.
Correlation role with regional city county, state, as well as federal goverment employyes and elected officials.
Reponsible for steering economic diversity and development activity.
Determination of Quasi-Judicial matters.
Providing policy guidance to department directors and city manager, drafters and to provide ultimate resolution approval of city ordinances and regulations.
Direct reciprocal involvement with all city commisions.
Examination and resolution of claims and litigation and personnel matters.
Improving the quality of life and work in Bellevue as it transitions it's core employment center to a purely livable-urban model.
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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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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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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
Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: 425-671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org