Welcome to TCC 2.0! You may have noticed that we have a new look: a new logo and a new website. We were lucky to have the support of a host of great people to create the new look TCC. I want to especially thank Todd Vogel and Karen Hust from the Loom Foundation for the funding to get the ball rolling. Our excellent team at Groundwire, Karen, Chris, Matthew, and Neal pulled together the new website (and new database!). Scott Michelson was a great project manager and came up with our new tagline: Transit For All. And finally the whole look, design, and feel of the new TCC was created by our amazing designer Mary LaFleur. We needed an extreme makeover and she was phenomenal to work with.
In addition to the new look of TCC, we’re also just wrapping up a strategic planning process, look for that on our website around Thanksgiving. We’re adding a few new Board members, welcome Greg Nickels, Pearl Leung, Josh Kavanagh, and Genesee Adkins to the TCC Board.
As we like to get ready for the rest of 2011, I’d like to highlight a challenge ahead of us and a big victory for us. Our big victory comes in the form of our new Membership Manager Carla Saulter! Carla has been working in transit issues in Seattle for a long time, and if you aren’t familiar with her work, please check out her Bus Chick blog. As our Membership Manager Carla will be in charge of working with you. Developing member benefits that are appealing to you, putting on events you want to come to, and being your conduit to TCC and our work. We are very lucky have her on board!
The No on I-1125 campaign is probably our biggest challenge for the remainder of 2011. If you haven’t been tracking that campaign, it’s Tim Eyman and Kemper Freeman’s latest attempt to thwart the construction of light rail to Bellevue and to keep transit from getting new revenue. Join us in fighting to defeat I-1125! Carrie and Viet have been working hard on that campaign and it, along with the Seattle $60 car tab measure and the Clark County Preserve Our Buses campaign are the three big ballot measures we have left for 2011.
There has never been a more important time for you to get engaged in our work at TCC. Please consider renewing your membership, signing up to volunteer, or stopping by the office to see how you might help. As always thanks for all of your support!
Rob Johnson
Executive Director
