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Dave Gering, co-chair, is the Executive Director
of the Manufacturing Industrial Council of Seattle, a non-profit
association of industrial businesses from throughout the city
that promote the city's industrial job base, including the development
of municipal and regional support for the infrastructure necessary
to sustain it.
- Steve
Goldblatt, co-chair, is Associate Dean for External Affairs
in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University
of Washington. He has served as President of the Associated Schools
of Construction, the first chair of Sound Transit’s Citizen Oversight
Panel, and a member of ST's Central Link Project Review Committee.
- Richard
Bonewits is a retired Boeing executive and Chair of the
Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council.
- Richard
Derham practiced law for 30 years with Davis Wright Tremaine
and subsequently served as President of the Washington Policy
Center. He served on the Washington State Redistricting Commission
from 2001-2002. He is now retired.
- Mark
Endresen is a Benefits Consultant for the Teamsters Representatives
Retirement Plan. He has been a Research Director for the Joint
Council of Teamsters and served as an economist for the Seattle
Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA).
- Arun
Jhaveri has served since 1991 as the
Regional Technology Manager with the U. S. Department of Energy's
Federal Energy Management Program, and is completing
a term as Trustee of Highline Community College.
He was the first Mayor of the newly-incorporated City of
Burien from 1992 to 1998, representing
Burien on the old Metro Council
and later on the Metropolitan King County
Council's Regional Transit Committee. Mr. Jhaveri is also
pursuing doctoral work at Seattle University
in Effective Leadership for Sustainable Development.
- Sharon
Maeda owns a management and media consulting firm, Spectra
Communications. In 2002, she returned home to the Puget Sound
area after being head of communications
for the Global Mission
Board of the United Methodist Church
in New York and serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public
Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development in Washington D.C.
- Jim Montgomery is the Chief of Police for
the City of Bellevue,
where he has served since 1997. From 1999 to 2000 he served as
Interim Deputy City Manager for Bellevue. From 1988 to 1997, Montgomery
served as the King County Sheriff, which was then an appointed
position.
- Bill
Ptacek has served as Director of the King County Library
System since 1989. He’s responsible for a system that has 42 community
libraries and an annual circulation of over 15 million items.
Ptacek is chair of the Developmental Disabilities Committee for
King County and President of the Bellevue Rotary Club.
- Kathleen
L. Royer has been practicing law since 1992. Her practice emphasizes family law and other matters relating to children and families. For the last four years, she has served as a Pro Tem Court Commissioner in King County Superior Court in the Ex Parte, Family Law and Juvenile Departments. She is a member and chair of the King County Bar Association Family Law Section. Kathleen is also President of the Board of Directors of the West Hill Community Council, which is her local Unincorporated Area Council for King County. Before attending law school, Ms. Royer was a staff member with the San Francisco Conservation Corps and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia.
- Steve
Williamson has served as the Executive Secretary-Treasurer
of the King County Labor Council since June 2000. Steve joined
organized labor in 1982 as a bricklayer/marble mason apprentice
in Denver, Colorado. After working at the trade for six years,
Steve began organizing new workers into the labor movement for
the Machinists Union and the Service Employees International Union,
including health care organizing in Seattle in 1989. Steve settled
permanently in Seattle in 1993, joining the Teamsters in 1995
as an organizer and staff director. The King County Labor
Council, AFL-CIO is comprised of over 150 local unions representing
approximately 150,000 union members in King County. Steve was
born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a foundry
worker and a secretary. He is strongly committed to social
and economic justice by building a stronger labor movement in
coalition with community allies.
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