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League Of Cities Ratifies Nomination Of Santa Monica City Council Member Pam O'Connor To MTA Board Of Directors
(Los Angeles) - The
League of California Cities, Los Angeles County Division, last night
ratified the nomination of Santa Monica City Council member Pam O'Connor
to the MTA Board of Directors. She
will be sworn in later this month. O'Connor was
nominated April 12, 2001, by the member cities of the Los Angeles County
City Selection Committee (Southwest Corridor Sector) to fill the seat
vacated by former Gardena City Council member James Cragin, who held the
MTA seat since 1993. O'Connor
joins three other City Selection Committee appointees on the 13-member MTA
Board. A regular user of
public transit who neither owns nor leases a car, O'Connor has served on
the Santa Monica City Council since 1994 and twice has served as that
city's mayor in 1997 and 1999. She
also has served as a member of the National League of Cities, Women in
Municipal Government board, and on its information technology and
communications steering committee; Southern California Association of
Governments' Regional Council; League of California Cities,
transportation and public works committee; and on the board of the Local
Government Commission. In addition to serving
on the Santa Monica City Council, O'Connor works as a private consultant
with Kaplan Chen Kaplan, specializing in historic preservation.
O'Connor's
consulting projects have included: Rowan Building (Los Angeles Spring
Street Historic District); Los Angeles City Hall seismic rehabilitation;
University of Southern California's historic buildings (seismic repair
studies and construction projects); University of California at Los
Angeles's historic buildings (seismic repair studies and construction
projects); First AME Zion Church (fire repair and renovations); and
Beverly Hills Hotel rehabilitation. Other positions
O'Connor has held include program manager for Historic Preservation
Partners for Earthquake Response, planner for the City of Pasadena, and
research associate for the University of Michigan's Institute for Social
Research. O'Connor has been the
recipient of numerous awards including the California Preservation
Foundation Design Awards for California State University's Channel
Islands Campus (2000) and UCLA's Powell Library (1997), as well as the
Milton Marks Award for Outstanding Achievement in Historic Preservation
(1999). O'Connor earned a
bachelor of science degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University
and holds masters degrees in historic preservation planning and in
technology management from Eastern Michigan University. As a member of the MTA Board, O'Connor will assist in the oversight of one of the nation's largest transportation planning and operating agencies. In addition to operating a fleet of more than 2,200 buses and the nearly 60-mile long Metro Rail System, the MTA funds street and highway projects, bikeways and other transportation improvements throughout Los Angeles County. MTA-085 |
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