On the top you can find the standard questions sent to all candidates.
More questions and answers will be added during the elections.
Please feel free to add yours at the bottom of this page.
More questions and answers will be added during the elections.
Please feel free to add yours at the bottom of this page.
Q. What have you done or what will you do to prepare yourself to be a qualified member of the board?
• My career prepares me: 40 years of experience as an attorney, CEO, investment banker and board member to nonprofits and businesses, mostly in healthcare. I know how to create transparent, fact-based and consensus-building processes that serve the organizational mission and how to establish accountability throughout an organization. I am currently a member of the board of three nonprofits and one company board.
• Part-time TD home-owner starting in 1987 (full time 2016-2018).
• Defender of environmental values, open space, outdoor recreation and family-friendlyneighborhoods.
• Chair of the General Plan Committee, working on major projects and community planning.
• My career prepares me: 40 years of experience as an attorney, CEO, investment banker and board member to nonprofits and businesses, mostly in healthcare. I know how to create transparent, fact-based and consensus-building processes that serve the organizational mission and how to establish accountability throughout an organization. I am currently a member of the board of three nonprofits and one company board.
• Part-time TD home-owner starting in 1987 (full time 2016-2018).
• Defender of environmental values, open space, outdoor recreation and family-friendlyneighborhoods.
• Chair of the General Plan Committee, working on major projects and community planning.
Q. If elected to the board, what will be your top three areas of focus?
• Bring Tahoe Donner successfully through the COVID financial crisis by protecting our core assets, people and future without increasing the financial burden on owners.
• Establish a board-management relationship that is collaborative and committed solely to serving the interests of the entire Tahoe Donner community rather than the personal goals of some owners. We must ensure the equitable and beneficial use of owners’ capital through advance planning, with transparent and rigorous analysis of spending.
• Increase owner input on major spending decisions and policies that may adversely affect the quality of living in TD.
• Bring Tahoe Donner successfully through the COVID financial crisis by protecting our core assets, people and future without increasing the financial burden on owners.
• Establish a board-management relationship that is collaborative and committed solely to serving the interests of the entire Tahoe Donner community rather than the personal goals of some owners. We must ensure the equitable and beneficial use of owners’ capital through advance planning, with transparent and rigorous analysis of spending.
• Increase owner input on major spending decisions and policies that may adversely affect the quality of living in TD.
Q. In your opinion, what are Tahoe Donner’s long-term issues? Where do you stand on those issues, and why?
• The biggest long-term issue facing Tahoe Donner is how to avoid degradation of our quality of life. The primary threats are economic and environmental.
• TD owners are economically diverse. TD offers affordable living. I want to retain that affordability and avoid over-commercialization of our open space and facilities. We should avoid the financial risk and overcrowding caused by profit-seeking investments.
• Climate change means greater wildfire risk and less reliable snow. We need to devote more resources to defensible space and forest health and right size investment in the ski lodge.
• The biggest long-term issue facing Tahoe Donner is how to avoid degradation of our quality of life. The primary threats are economic and environmental.
• TD owners are economically diverse. TD offers affordable living. I want to retain that affordability and avoid over-commercialization of our open space and facilities. We should avoid the financial risk and overcrowding caused by profit-seeking investments.
• Climate change means greater wildfire risk and less reliable snow. We need to devote more resources to defensible space and forest health and right size investment in the ski lodge.
Q. What are the important provisions in Tahoe Donner governance documents the members may not be aware of?
I do have some slides from past presentations, which may answer this question:
I do have some slides from past presentations, which may answer this question: