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GOVERNMENTAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - LOCAI, StAtC, ANd fCdETAI <br />legislative affairs (washington state, oregon, Montana, washington DC). Bill <br />and statutory code drafting, lobbying, agency affairs, and commission and <br />committee representation. Growth management, land planning, development <br />and energy codes, environmental liability, and a broad variety of natural <br />resource management issues. <br />ADMINI|TRATI0N _ Management of local government planning agencies, <br />housing/natural resource trade associations, regional economic development <br />districts, and planning consulting firms. <br />NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Forestland planning, urban/forest <br />interface management, natural resource based community development, water <br />and land trails levelopment programs, residential rural cluster and <br />ionservation design developments, wildlife refuge and national scenic area <br />establishment, and environmental assessment' <br />16 Legislative <br />Sessions <br />25 years <br />45 years <br />RELATED EXPERIENCE <br />Columbia Development Authorith Boardman, OR, <br />Executive Director 2009 - Retired 2015 <br />Served as the Executive Director of the Columbia Development Authority overseeing the <br />planning, transfer, and redevelopment of a 17,000 acres Army chemical weapons depot' <br />Redevelopment planning involved the creation of a 6,000 acre wildlife refuge with associated 1,500 <br />acre commercial solar energy park,7,500 acre National Guard training base, and 3'500 acre industrial <br />park, The Columbia Development Authority is an intergovernmental consortium comprised of Morrow <br />county, oR; umatilla county oR; Port of Morrow; Port of umatilla, and the confederated Tribes of the <br />umatilla Indian Reservation. Project administration ranged from 3 to 6 individuals with program <br />budgets in the $800,000 to $900,000 range. <br />Confluence Planning & Engineering: Helena MT, Blacksburg VA' Baker City OR' <br />Owner <br />Land planning, village design, property development, rural community <br />economic development, natural resource/regional trails planning, and capital <br />facilities planning. Also related legislative affairs services provided to both <br />private and public sector clients. served under contract as the circuit riding <br />planning director for four oregon and Montana jurisdictions. served for 10 <br />years as the executive director of the 900 member Montana Building Industry <br />Association. As a private contracting firm served as the Director of community <br />DevelopmentforBakerCity,oregon'Legislativeclientsincluded <br />Weyerhaeuser, Boeing, Washington Assn. of Business, Montana Wildlife <br />Federation, Montana Building Industry Association, counties, cities, and <br />various developer interests in Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Virginia' <br />Virginia Tech, College of Architecture, Blacksburg, VA <br />Professor-i n - Practice <br />Instructor in graduate and undergraduate coursework including Environmental <br />Planning, Site Design, Growth Management, Capstone Seminars' Research <br />Methods,andfivestudyabroadclasses(EnglandTreksofl00to200miles)' <br />Research grants - U'S. Forest Service, Virginia Dept' of Forestry' HUD <br />(managing exurban development, behavioral incentives in land-use practice)' <br />Richland WA <br />1988 - 2010 <br />2001 - 2008