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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Forty-four years |
6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Partisan Nonpartisan
CAMPAIGN CONTACTS
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Russ Segner for City Council |
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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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King County Economic Enterprise Corp.
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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 am the current Chair of the Newcastle Planning Commission. In this capacity, I have become very much aware of the desires and needs of the community and, at the same time, the inability of the current Council leadership to deal effectively with the city's growth.
Since Newcastle's incorporation 14 years ago, the Council has failed to achieve the consensus needed to mobilize the energy and interest of our entire community. To the contrary, over the years, the Council has alienated several important segments within our city. The Council is not adequately providing for the future economic viability of Newcastle. Instead, there has been a consistent effort to uproot the major employment base in the city in a premature attempt to build a new civic complex. This effort entangled and delayed for years the successful location of the new King County Library in Newcastle. This coincides with bringing Newcastle to the precipice of major financial problems in funding the predictable cost overruns for construction of Coal Creek Parkway. This is an important regional link and this issue needs the full attention of the city leadership and staff. At the same time, numerous resignations of valuable staff members have left many city programs with minimal support.
Newcastle deserves better. I am running to restore trust and openness in the operation of our city government. I am running to hold accountable city management in the expenditure of our tax dollars. I am running to build workable solutions to the important issues facing our city. This means identifying new leadership who will work together to build consensus among the various components of our city. This means actually honoring the hard work and intense interest of generous volunteers within the city. With a new approach to city governance, Newcastle can and will be the great community its citizens deserve. |
2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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I have been involved in real estate brokerage for over forty years. To be successful, I have had to develop strong skills in analysis, listening to the needs of clients, developing appropriate strategies to accomplish the goals of my clients and negotiating to a workable conclusion with all parties to the transactions.
Honesty and integrity are fundamental to my career. Openness with clients and other brokers builds trust and teamwork. Building strong teams of specialists is a necessary part of many transactions. In order achieve this, I have constantly upgraded my knowledge of all the disciplines affecting real estate. Seminars and training in specialties related to commercial real estate have brought me into contact with the very best professionals in our region, and I have frequently included them in my work.
The other characteristics necessary for success are: vision and imagination in order to see how best to accomplish the goals of clients, determination to see a project through adversity, and patience to allow the process to work. I believe in "win/win". |
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.
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In 1992, I was asked by the King County Executive to serve on the Fiscal Analysis and Economic Development Task Force. This was a 40+ member public/private/environmental/labor Policy Advisory Committee. The Task Force developed the King County Planning Policies which were adopted by the King County Council in 1992. I believe that my contribution as a successful commercial/industrial real estate broker brought a balance to the policy discussions. Growth management includes accommodation for jobs and housing in suitable locations integrated by effective transportation systems. At that time, I had over twenty years experience in the marketplace and knew the issues of effective zoning and transportation well.
A natural outcome of this work was a two-year participation on the Steering Committee of the Duwamish Coalition. This was an effort to accommodate growth by focusing on revitalizing the industrial base in south Seattle. Keeping jobs close to existing, affordable housing was and is an important component of effective planning for growth in our region. Appropriate, efficient use of older industrial sites helped reduce the pressure on undeveloped areas around the urban centers. We were able to develop strategies for the reuse of contaminated sites in the Duwamish basin. Some of these strategies led to legislative changes that sped up process and dealt more completely with remediation of these sites. New and revitalized facilities have been built in South Park, south Seattle, Tukwila and Renton on sites that would have languished without this initiative. Part of this effort included two years as co-chair of a working group on Job Creation and Retention with King County Councilperson Martha Choe and Ron Judd, Executive Director of the King County Labor Council. A major focus of this group was to bring greater understanding to local jurisdictions and educational groups in learning to meet the needs of the industrial workforce. |
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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President Mutual Business Club of Seattle - 1979 President Commercial Investment Brokers Association (CIBA) - mid '80's President Seattle - King County Association of Realtors 1990 Founding Member & President (1990) Sunrise Rotary (south Bellevue) - Paul Harris Fellow Board Member Economic Development Council 1990 - 1992 Member King County Growth Management Task Force 1991 - 1994 Advisor to Washington State Technology Alliance - 1993 Founding Member & First President Washington State Commercial Association of Realtors (WSCAR)1994 Member Duwamish Coalition Steering Committee 1994 - 1995 Instructor University of Washinton Extension Classes in Commercial Real Estate - mid 1990s Member Habitat for Humanity Eastside Advisory 1996 - 1997 Board Member King County Economic Enterprise Corporation 1997 - 1998 Member Newcastle Chamber of Commerce - present Member Newcastle Historical Society - present Chair Newcastle Planning Commission - present Commercial Real Estate Broker 1968 - present
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A city council member is responsible for working to build consensus with other members of the Council to establish the goals and policies of the city and to provide oversight for the management of the business of the city.
Duties include: identifying and prioritizing public policy issues; focusing on workable solutions to the needs of the citizens; seeking and utilizing competent advice in considering complex issues; communicating openly with colleagues and the public; encouraging citizen involvement in city government and respecting volunteer efforts; strictly avoiding conflicts of interest
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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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BA in History University of Missouri CCIM professional designation CRE professional designation |
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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Current Chair of Newcastle Planning Commission, past Board member King County Economic Development Council, past member King County Growth Management Task Force, past member Fiscal Analysis and Economic Development Task Force, past President Seattle King County Association of Realtors, past President Commercial Investment Brokers Association, past President Washington State Commercial Association of Realtors, past president Sunrise Rotary, past member Habitat for Humanity Eastide Advisory, current member Newcastle Historical Society and Newcastle Chamber of Commerce. |
Finished!
If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (cec@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: Jason Thibedeau
Seattle, WA 98104-1614 Fax: (425) 671-0506 Website: www.munileague.org