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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
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