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President
John McGill is a retired physicist from university, government and corporate employers. He came to Northern New Mexico in 1976 as a graduate student, and lived in Los Alamos, Pojoaque, and La Mesilla. He has lived in Santa Fe since 1997. His water comes from a domestic well, and is a member of the board for the Santa Fe Domestic Well Owners Association. For the past five years John has been involved in water issues as they relate to pumping our aquifer. He is currently the president of the Santa Fe Basin Water Association.
Vice President
John Miles Smith was an information systems technologist before retiring to Santa Fe in 2004. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of London, and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He first joined the faculty of the University of Utah specializing in database systems research. Subsequently, he was an executive at Computer Corporation of America, a manager at Digital Equipment Corporation, and a systems strategist at Xerox Corporation. He has always been concerned with environmental issues, and recently decided to focus on sustainable water use. He is responsible for the Well Resources Committee of his local home owner association, and a liaison to the Water Committee of the Tano Road Association.
Treasurer
Spencer Ballard is a consultant with a firm providing aviation management consulting, principally on behalf of airport clients. He lived in the four-corners states for nearly 20 years before his career took him to the coasts and midwest. He relocated to Santa Fe in 2003. Spencer is Vice President of the Santa Fe South Cooperative Association.
Secretary
Carl Dickens is a native of New Mexico and grew up on land that bordered two ditches and the Rio Grande River in the village of Los Ranchos just north of Albuquerque. As a young man he was responsible for irrigating the family’s 3 ½ acres of alfalfa and feeding a collection of farm animals. Carl has lived in Northern New Mexico ever since his graduation from college in 1972. He has been the President of the La Cienega Valley Association (LCVA) for the last two years and has been involved in numerous La Cienega activities in the 23 years since his family moved to the valley. Carl has served as the Secretary/Treasurer of the El Guicu Acequia and held a variety of positions with the LCVA that have included Secretary, Vice President and Chairman of the Development Advisory Committee. Carl has over 19 years of experience in state government and is a partner in an online auction business in Santa Fe.
Carl is committed to the communities’ rural values of self sufficiency and to the community goals of agricultural revitalization and water management that protects the traditional, historical uses and sources of area water. The LCVA has an established community plan that supports these concerns and is dedicated to the preservation of a rural way of living.
Members
Ann Murray is an artist and environmentalist born in Santa Rosa, Ca. and educated at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been a resident of Los Cerrillos for 35 years where she is active in environmental protection. She is past president and current board member of the Concerned Citizens of Cerrillos, an environmental group for the protection of water and land in the Cerrillos area (since 1977). She was a participant in community planning, 1997-2000. She was one of the founders of the Cerrillos Hills Historic Park and past board member of the Cerrillos Hills Park Coalition. She is currently a board member of Las Candelas, a village development group and is Vice President for the municipal water association El Vadito de Los Cerrillos.
Ann has deep respect for community stewardship of water resources. She has engaged for three decades with community activism to protect local water resources from pollution by mining. She questions the displacement of agricultural water rights for the development of metro areas. She is motivated by concerns over global warming, predicted drought, and over-development, and wants to ensure that local planning addresses these concerns.
Patty Burks
David Gold
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