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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6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
CAMPAIGN CONTACTS
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Cindi for Seattle Monorail |
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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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Elevated Transportation Company
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Secretary of the Board
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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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Seattle has been fighting over transportation in 3 different centuries. We fight still. We fought transportation solutions, and killed transit proposals in each decade of the 20th century. Building transit in our region is clearly not easy. Transportation decision-making is blocked by fear, indecision and panicked second-, third- and fourth-guessing.
This city is to absorb more than 100,000 new residents in the next 20 years and increased density is the primary objective of our city's mayor -- and the state's Growth Management Act. At a time when gas has hit $3 a gallon within the state and major newspaper headlines scream about the increase in air pollution due to automobile exhaust, the need for transit alternatives has only increased.
Let's make one thing clear: we are in a civil war over transportation policy, a war where some so-called leaders think it is ok to kill a monorail costing $115 million a mile in order to build a highway that costs over a billion dollars a mile; that it is ok to take a voter approved MVET away from monorail and use it to pay for highways that would benefit voters who killed a tax to pay for those roads. Some legislators, including those in our midst, call this good transportation policy. I think it is as moronic as starting a war to create peace. If our region can create the world's best airplanes (Boeing), move the most freight (UPS), sell the most books (Amazon), market the most coffee (Starbucks), revolutionize shopping (Costco), and generate the most powerful company in the world (Microsoft), we ought to be able to build a transit system.
The monorail project currently has in hand a project bid that is 20% over our budget. There is no doubt that problems arose from an ill-conceived finance plan that attempted to cover that overage with an outlandishly long payoff schedule and consequently, horrific interest. It is important to note that the finance committee of the Monorail Board KILLED that finance plan. The Executive Director resigned. The Deputy Executive Director resigned. The Chair of the Board resigned. The Board laid off 1/3 of the remaining staff while options were pursued. The Board hired a financial consultant who turned around Sound Transit, hired transit industry experts to analyse the proposed contract for cost savings, and is about to name a new executive director. The Seattle Monorail Project can be saved and I propose to do the work it takes to make that happen in order to increase mobility and improve our environment. |
2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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TOUGH ACCOUNTABILITY - The Stranger awarded “Most Righteous Elected Official” to Cindi precisely because she is an outspoken, vigorous voice for greater accountability and transparency
- II not only voted against the raise given to Joel Horn last December, I halted a proposal to give a 5% merit raise to agency staff
- I publicized the fact that staff had introduced legislation the SMP Board had not approved. The legislation would have allowed bonds to be extended 60, 70 and more years. This led to the killing of that legislation.
- Cindi called for a "Plan B" back in December 2004 - 6 months before the contract negotiations were complete. |
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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Rainier Institute, Executive Director, 2002- Hanford Advisory Board Member 1997-98 Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Vice President 1997 Puget Soundkeeper Alliance Volunteer & Kayak Pollution Patrol 2001-present; Director of Development 1999-2001 Health Care for All Washington/Health Care 2000, Executive Director 1999-2000 Washington State Fish & Wildlife Backyard Habitat Demonstration Garden (Alki neighborhood) 1998-2004 Fundraiser and/or Consultant for Hands Off Washington, WA NARAL, US Sens. Brock Adams, George Mitchell, Tom Harkin, Bob Kerrey, US Reps. Brian Baird, Jim McDermott, Jolene Unsoeld, Don Bonker, numerous legislators and local elected officials, 1993-1997 Alki Community Council President 1993-94 Alki Community Council Trustee 1992-96 King County Boys & Girls Club Annual Campaign Manager 1994 White Center/Park Lake Boys & Girls Club Board Member 1993-95 34th District Democrats Chair 2000-2001; party officer 1991-2001 Washington State Democrats' Fundraiser 1994-1996 King County Democrats' Fundraiser 1993-1996 Democratic National Committee Advance Team 1992 United States Senate Aide (US Sen. Brock Adams) 1990-1992 Women's Campaign Fund Campaign Team (national) 1990-94 Sanctuary Si Campaign 1988-89 Snohomish County Democrats Vice Chair 1988-1990 Washington State Rainbow Coalition Member 1984-92 38th District Democrats Party Officer 1986-1988 Benton County Democrats Vice Chair 1984-85 Special Olympics Committee (Tri Cities) 1984 English as a Second Language Instructor 1982-84 Master Gardener (Benton County) 1983
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From the SMP Website (www.elevated.org) Board Responsibilities The Seattle Monorail Project is charged with the authority to build, own, operate and maintain a Citywide Monorail System as called for in the Seattle Popular Monorail Plan that was adopted by the Elevated Transportation Company on August 5, 2002 and ratified by Seattle Voters on November 5, 2002 pursuant to Seattle Citizen Petition/Proposition No. 1.
The Board's primary responsibilities are to: 1. Set agency policy 2. Approve agency budget 3. Authorize agency debt 4. Appoint Executive Director and evaluate his/her performance
The most important of these is #1 - set agency policy. I believe the Board has to take many more SMALL policy actions in lieu of adoption enormous, multi-thousand line/page policy documents as was the norm throughout 2004 and into June 2005. |
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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BA, Political Science University of Washington, Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society AA, Business & Economics, Columbia Basin College |
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