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Board Notes April Vargas The Board of Directors held its annual meeting in April and elected officers for the coming year. The Board unanimously elected April Vargas to the position of Board President for 2007-2008. April, a resident of Montara, first joined the Board of Directors in 1999. She became a staff member in 2003, helping to lead efforts to review the MidCoast Local Coastal Plan and to expand the boundaries of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District over to the coast. With those campaigns successfully completed, she dropped off the staff and returned to the Board in 2005. In addition to serving on CGF’s Board of Directors, April is also an alternate to the Coastal Commission and is the conservation appointment to the San Mateo Agriculture Advisory Committee. When she is not volunteering, April has an active interior design business and works on union organizing campaigns for SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West. Committee for Green Foothills will be well served by her leadership this coming year. Chris Powell Also in April, the Board wished a fond farewell to Chris Powell who ably served us as Board President in 2006–2007. She plans to step off the board for a year, but continues to volunteer time helping with our Nature’s Inspirations event and with our outreach and communications efforts. Chris, a resident of El Granada, first joined the board in 2001. She was an incredible strategist for us during our coastal campaigns and thanks to her extensive experience serving on nonprofit boards, helped to steer CGF through some key organizational transitions. During the past year as the Board President, she helped to recruit and hire Holly Van Houten to join us as our new Executive Director and then led the effort to complete CGF’s first Strategic Plan in many years. We will all miss her common sense wisdom on the board and look forward to her continuing as an “emeritus” board member in other capacities.  Alex Kennett Our newest addition to the Board is Alex Kennett, resident of Morgan Hill. Alex is a businessman, running a company called Solutions, which coaches and mentors businesses. He is a member of the Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce and serves on the board of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network. He is an elected member of the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority and sees himself as “a bridge between business and the environment.” We are pleased to have Alex aboard! Published Summer 2007 in Green Footnotes. Page last updated August 27, 2007. |
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