HomeMy WebLinkAbout91-066 RESOLDTION 91-66
WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Lakeville
unanimously endorses the candidacy of Council Member Betty Sindt
for the Board of Directors of the League of Minnesota Cities;
and
WHEREAS Betty Sindt has been a City Council Member since
1980. She currently serves as Acting Mayor and chairs the
Housing and. Redevelopment Authority and has served on the City
Hall Planning Committee, the Personnel Committee and the Police
Committee. She represents Lakeville on the ALF Ambulance
Service Board of Directors, where she serves as chair, and is a
member of the Board of Directors of the Community Action
Council; and
WHEREAS Betty Sindt has been an active member of the
Lakeville Community. She has served on the Minnesota Displaced
Homemakers Advisory Committee and the Governor's Judicial
Recommendation Committee. She has successfuly lobbied with
manufactured housing organizations for changes in law to protect
residents; and
WIiEREAS Betty Sindt has been active in solid waste
management issues. She has been a member of Metropolitan Waste
Management Advisory Committee since 1983 and currently serves as
chair and is a member of the Dakota County Waste Management
Advisory Committee; and
WHEREAS Betty Sindt has been active in transportation
issues. She serves on the Regional Transit Board Local Elected
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Officials Advisory Committee and the Lakeville Senior
Citizens/Dakota Area Resources and Transportation for Seniors,
Inc., Bus Comnmittee. She also has served on the Regional
Transit Board Exurban Committee, the Dakota County Exurban
Transportation Subcommittee and the I-35 Board of Commissioners;
and
WIiEREpiS Betty Sindt has been active in regional
governmental groups. In the League of Minnesota Cities, she was
appointed in November 1990 to fill an opening on the Board of
Directors and currently chairs the Conference Planning
Committee. She also has served on the LMC Government Structures
• and General Legislative, Planning, Budget and Land Use, Energy,
Environment and Transportation Committees. She also has
moderated sessions at the Newly-Elected Officials Conference;
and
WHEREAS Betty Sindt has been active in Minnesota Women. in
City Government. She has served as president, vice president,
secretary, director and chair of the nominating committee. She.
has worked with Government Training. to produce a training
seminar for advisory committees, assisted with planning a
pre-conference evening session for 10 years and participated in
the Faculty-Hamline University Women in Government Seminar in
June 1990; and
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NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the City Council
enthusiastically supports Betty Sindt's candidacy and encourages
the LMC nominating committee to give due consideration to her
application.
APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Lakeville
this 20th day of May , 1991.
CITY OF LAKEVILLE
BY:
Duane Zaun, Mayor
,ATTEST:
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• Charlene Friedges, pity Clerk
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