A bit about myself and my SeaTac vision
I am a Washington native, born and raised in King County. I grew up in Riverton (annexed by Tukwila), and now live in Riverton Heights (annexed by SeaTac). My parents still live in my childhood home in Tukwila.
I graduated from Foster High School, married my high school sweetheart, went to work at Boeing, raised a family and when ‘empty nest’ came along, I went to college. I consider myself to be your average concerned citizen who values my family and what I have worked hard for.
My current husband George (not the high school sweetheart) and I are both now retired and live in our SeaTac home where we have resided since the mid 70’s. Children are off and married, but we share our home with 2 dogs and a cat.
As I already said, like many of the rest of you, I worked and raised my family, and don’t remember ever attending a city council meeting during that time. Being a chauffeur for school activities, soccer games, music lessons, horse shows and going to work was my priority.
After 38 years at Boeing, I retired and then several years ago, a friend and I co founded Neighbors Without Borders Action Committee (NWOBAC.) NWOBAC is a group of concerned citizens from SeaTac and Tukwila who meet monthly to solve citizen concerns in our cities by working with city staff.
While working on some code enforcement issues in SeaTac through NWOBAC, I realized how much the city had developed while I had been busy working and raising my family, and I was now seeing, hearing, and experiencing things that I did not like.
I attended the Citizen Police Academy and got involved with Block Watch and Night Out Against Crime. Through these activities, I learned more and more things from neighbors and other citizens that I didn’t think were right and should be addressed by the City.
After Joe Brennan passed away and applications were being taken for his open council Position #6, I applied for that seat (along with 12 others) but was not appointed.
Zoning issues arose, pawn shop and a construction company issues came up in the city. The Tree Retention saga was roiling away. I felt that things were out of control in SeaTac and what was needed, among other things, was equal application of our ordinances, we needed more citizens to be involved in the city and we needed the city to properly include the citizens and pay attention to us. I felt that ‘common sense’ seemed to have taken a vacation in our city.
So I find myself now, through a lot of hard work, on the November 3 ballot, asking for your vote.
It is time for a change in our city government, and I see us all being part of changes for the better in SeaTac. I have lots of ideas! I know you all have ideas and I’d love to hear them.
I want you to talk to me. When elected, I’d love to have small ‘town meetings,’— come to town meetings and share your thoughts and ideas on your vision of SeaTac. Email me, call me, write me. While you are working and raising your families, or enjoying retirement, contact me and let’s see what we can agree on to ensure that our city will still be here as vibrant and safe and as family friendly as ever. Ideas, suggestions, complaints—we need to make our city work for all of us.
“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.”
Thomas Jefferson, Note in Destutt de Tracy, 1816