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From the President As winter transitions into spring, CGF is proud to renew our commitment to the protection of our fragile regional resources and endangered agricultural lands. We are pleased to introduce you to the new board leadership team for 2008–09, a truly accomplished and energetic group of environmental stewards.  Our new President, Jeff Segall of Mountain View, has been an active member of our board since 2002, serving as Treasurer and Vice President. He is a tireless and effective leader on Stanford–related issues and has a keen interest in the preservation of working landscapes in southern Santa Clara County.  Incoming Vice President Matt Burrows is a resident of San Carlos and although he has been on our board for only two years, his considerable outreach and promotional talents have ensured the great success of our recent major fundraising events.  Bill Whitmer of Palo Alto will take over as Treasurer, offering a wealth of experience and service within the local environmental community. His expertise in organizational, financial and strategic planning will keep CGF on a solid and sustainable course.  Filling the role of Secretary, Jennifer Hagan, will do an outstanding job of recording our successes and documenting our organizational legacy. Her dedication to open space preservation, legal expertise and close connections with the equestrian community will greatly benefit our ongoing outreach efforts. The CGF Directors, while all committed to preservation of open space, are a diverse group, geographically, background, age, gender, experience on boards, professions. However CGF, like many environmental organizations, is not very ethnically diverse. A goal for this year is to become so. Preservation of open space serves all communities. We welcome more people from the rich multicultural milieu of the San Francisco Peninsula join us. If you or someone you know is interested in joining our CGF Board, we want to hear from you.  I am pleased to announce that on May 1st CGF will have a new Executive Director, Cynthia D’Agosta. A native Californian, Cynthia’s community involvement and work experiences cover a wide range of leadership and team building work on open space planning and natural resource protection. She has spent the last 8 years working as the first Executive Director of a new local government agency, the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority. Cynthia, who makes her home in San Jose, said, “I’m very excited to accept this opportunity to return to the work of open space protection and preservation in general. I am very inspired by the Committee’s history, dedication, and successes. I look forward to continuing in this tradition, and achieving new heights with the Committee for Green Foothills.” I have been honored to serve as President over this past year and I want to thank all of you for your encouragement, your enthusiasm and your steadfast support of CGF. In a world that can often seem fragmented and frantic, our ability to experience the beauty, the tranquility and the timelessness of our natural world is a rare gift indeed. Because of you, it is a gift that can be shared for generations to come. Published Spring 2008 in Green Footnotes. Page last updated May 26, 2008. |
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