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Chiarello - Community Activist in NE Seattle Wants to Fill Council Vacancy
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GAIL CHIARELLO FILES FOR CITY COUNCIL SEAT No. 9

For Immediate Release
Contact Numbers 206-523-0715 or 206-679-3659
www.GailChiarello.com

SEATTLE - Gail Chiarello, Treasurer of the 46th District Democrats in NE Seattle, announced today she has submitted her application for appointment to the City Council seat being vacated by Jim Compton. Her experience includes community activism, financial and grants management, and communication and the arts. On City Council she will provide a voice for ordinary citizens, a voice for neighborhoods and communities, and an intelligent and informed voice to advocate for good government. She holds a Master of City Planning degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Gail Chiarello is a citizen activist working for ethics in government and for urban open space and green space. Her efforts as a Board member of Friends of Magnuson Park resulted in a reduction of the number of lighted and synthetically turfed sports fields at Magnuson Park and ensured environmental and community protections for the remaining open space. In May 2005 Gail challenged a 1992 ruling which had exempted the City’s advisory committees from the City’s Code of Ethics; that ruling was overturned.
Gail is active in local Democratic politics and has served on the 46th District Democrats Executive Board since 2002. She currently serves as Treasurer (an elected position). She is a founding member of the Progressive Democratic Caucuses of Washington 46th District (PDCW46) which meets monthly as a “lean, mean activist machine” to insure good government at all levels--national, state, and local.
She co-founded the Washington Voter Registration Project with Kathryn Gardow which registered 2000 voters in over 100 venues in the run-up to the 2004 elections. She is a Trustee of Hawthorne Hills Community Council and edits and produces its neighborhood newsletter “The Holler.”

Gail has over 20 years of non-profit grants management experience in health care and academic settings. From 1991-1997 she managed a 6-state Federally-funded program, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Human Genetics Network, on the East Coast. In August 2004 she retired from the University of Washington.

In her twenties, Gail pursued a career as a writer. She was one of “31 New American Poets” (1969). Her poems were published in Poetry (Chicago) and the City Lights Anthology, among many other anthologies and magazines. With Jan Herman she founded “The San Francisco Earthquake,” an award-winning magazine of the arts.

She believes her eclectic background is a strength. She is fearless and tenacious when advocating for the public good. Her interest in City Council is promoting the City’s good-government tradition and insuring that the concerns of ordinary citizens are heard on Council.

Posted on: 1/5/2006 2:24:18 PM by suzie2004@comcast.net
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46th LD TREASURER, GAIL CHIARELLO, FILES FOR CITY COUNCIL

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