The Bainbridge Island City Council has filled seven vacancies on its Human Services Funding Advisory Committee.
The council also made four new appointments to the city’s Lodging Tax Advisory Committee.
The new members of the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee are Susie Burdick, Lori Quick-Mejia, Julie Schulte and Patricia Nash.
The six-member committee reviews and comments on proposals for expenditures from the city’s Lodging Tax Fund.
Burdick, the executive director of Kids Discovery Museum, was appointed to Position 1.
Quick-Mejia is the marketing and community outreach program manager for the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District; she will serve in Position 2.
Schulte is the owner of B.I. Beach Cottages and was selected to serve in Position 3.
Nash previously served on the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee and will be in Position 4 on the committee.
Nine hopefuls applied for the committee. The other five candidates were Patti Dusbabek, an organic farmer who runs a bed-and-breakfast on Bainbridge; Nancy Fortner, co-owner of Fortner Books and Sweetlife Farms; Patricia Graf-Hoke, a Silverdale resident who has been director of Visit Kitsap Peninsula since 2009; Claes Hagstromer, a developer/builder who now manages Abode On The Sea; and James Wilford, a former bond trader and the owner of Fletcher Bay Winery.
The four appointments were made by a unanimous council vote of 7-0. The council also unanimously picked seven members for the Human Services Funding Advisory Committee.
The new members are Susan Buckles, Kathleen Cronin, Asaph Glosser, Ariel Shultz, Jacalyn Walton Siler, Stephen Walker and Kaycie Wood.
Buckles is a psychotherapist who previously served on the city’s Ethics Board for eight years. She was appointed to Position 1.
Cronin is retired but volunteers as a mental health services advocate. She was named to Position 2
Glosser is a senior research associate with MEF Associates and is the committee’s Position 3 representative.
Shultz is a writer and illustrator, and a former member of the city of Beaverton, Oregon’s Human Rights Subcommittee. She was chosen for Position 4.
Siler is a retired social worker and served on the city’s Human Services Funding Advisory Committee last year. Siler was selected for Position 5.
In Position 6, the council named Walker, who is also retired (from a 36-year career in nuclear and electrical engineering with the Navy and the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard) and is a state-certified chemical dependency professional.
Wood, a retiree and former director of Island Volunteer Caregivers, was named to Position 7.
Ten people in all applied to serve on the committee, though one, Linda Semlizt, later withdrew her application.
The other applicants were Helaine Honig, an assistant city attorney with the city of Seattle, and Barbara Clark, a mental health therapist.
The members of the Human Services Funding Advisory Committee will also serve terms that end after their funding recommendations have been made to the council.
