Newman running for GVEA Board District 4

I guess it is official now - I am a candidate for the GVEA board of directors District 4 which includes Steese East, Chena Hot Springs, Fox, Shannon Park, Island Homes, Hamilton Acres and the core area of downtown Fairbanks.

I have my website at gvea.chena.org and you are welcome to like my Facebook page Newman for GVEA.

Two way communication and transparency have been a mainstay of my advocacy for GVEA for decades - I don't see that changing. Reliability, keeping rates reasonable, trying to help moderate our increasing debt load are also pretty important tasks for the board.

Ballots will be mailed out May 8 with a month to get them back to GVEA. In the next couple months, I will be talking with our members to hear their concerns and let members hear from me as well. I will of course be at the annual meeting Wed. April 29, 2015, this year at Lathrop High School's Hering Auditorium.

I'm looking forward to this effort to help our co-op. It is a demanding effort for anyone serving on the board and I now have the time and decades of involvement to be able to give back to GVEA.

Feel free to contact me if you want to chat: gvea@chena.org or 907-488-2001