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Realtor joins officer quartet
Joining the officer roster for the first time will be vice president Tom Montgomery. Ken Sweeney again will serve as president; Gary Colley, secretary; and Dave Hurd, treasurer. Sweeney said he is looking forward to challenges related to the organization’s continuing growth.
“Priorities will include ensuring continuing the financial stability needed for upholding an increasing number of conservation agreements in perpetuity,” he said. “We need to be able to afford enough staff, office space and equipment to serve the growing requests from property owners who want to protect special qualities of their land.”
Continued collaboration with Friends of the Fields to protect rapidly diminishing farmland also will be important, Sweeney said.
The year ahead will be especially significant because the organization’s Board wants to be among the first land trusts to apply for an official accreditation program when the nationwide Land Trust Alliance makes it available, Sweeney said. He’s counting on help from current and future Board members and other volunteers.
“We hope people who want to help North Olympic Land Trust fulfill its mission will consider applying for the Board of Directors,” he said. A retired professional planner, Sweeney and his wife, Sue, operate Serenity Farm, an equestrian facility between Port Angeles and Sequim that is protected permanently through an agreement with the Land Trust. He has an extensive background of civic leadership activities.
Sweeney expressed gratitude for Colley’s and Hurd’s continuing service. “These two have contributed countless hours of their valuable time to this organization,” he said. Colley is an attorney with Platt Irwin Taylor. Hurd is a Certified Public Accountant with Garnero, Smith, Hurd and Miller.
Sweeney said the new vice president, Tom Montgomery, brings “experience that will most definitely assist the leadership team in carrying out our responsibilities.”
Montgomery and his wife, Helga, moved to Sequim eight years ago after his 37-year career as an attorney with the Bank of America Office of General Counsel at its world headquarters in San Francisco. As a Realtor, he received the John L. Scott President’s Award in 2005. He serves on the Clallam County Planning Commission, the Sequim City Council’s Citizens Park Advisory Board and is serving his second term as a gubernatorial appointee to the Clallam County Boundary Review Board.
Among his numerous affiliations are the boards of the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society and Dungeness Valley Health and Wellness Clinic. He is a member of the Sequim Sunrise Rotary Club, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, Harvard Alumni Association and Columbia Law School Alumni Association.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 at 10:35 am and is filed under More News.