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Carl Durocher (Williamson Street) “I am interested in serving another term on the MNA Board. I’ve had a home on Willy St. since the ’70’s and raised a son there. I celebrate the unique, diverse, creative concentration of highly engaged active community minded residents in our neighborhood. We have gone through major changes over the past several decades. My aim is to sustain and balance all of the elements that now make us a destination for new businesses and residents: quality of life for singles and families, good business climate for independent small businesses, parks, shorelines, trees, streets, traffic, parking, and bicycling. Through work on city Commissions and other non-profits, I bring to the table relationships with a range of City staffers. |
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Chris Lukas (Riverside Drive) – As a fourteen-year resident of Marquette and Schenk-Atwood with a family of six, I understand many of the concerns and desires our neighborhood shares. I am interested in local issues and I have worked with city committees, participated in community meetings, and pay close attention to changes that affect our area. If elected to the MNA board, I will devote time and energy to analyzing, understanding and taking action to ensure the quality of life we enjoy in our neighborhood continues to increase. |
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Joan Frost (South First Street) – As a 15 year resident in the neighborhood and a 20 year professional in the non-profit sector; I would like to be more involved in the discussion and resolution of issues that the Marquette Neighborhood Association addresses. I have extensive work experience in budget preparation, grant requests, accounting and financial reporting to boards. My current work is in the area(s) of multi-family housing development and management (both “affordable” and market rate) and small business lending. I would like put these skills and experiences to work where needed. |
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Michael Jacob – (Russell Street) – I’ve proudly served on the MNA board for more years, now, than I can recall without looking it up, including stints as President, Vice President and Chair of the Membership Committee. I’m very proud of the attention the Board pays to issues immediately in front of the neighborhood as well as those on the horizon. It can be tricky to be responsive to the desires of individual neighbors and the neighborhood as a whole, but I believe the Board consistently seeks to thread that needle and much more often than not successfully does so. There has been significant turnover on the Board, which is understandable and a positive reflection of interest in the neighborhood. But with turnover comes some loss of institutional |
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Nicole Craig (Williamson Street) – My husband and I moved to the neighborhood five years ago when we bought our first home and love all that this neighborhood has to offer. In the past I have worked as a sustainability consultant and a community garden specialist but am now home full-time with our daughter, who was born this past winter. I’ve been involved in the neighborhood in the last several years, working to introduce community gardens to our area and now hoping to install the neighborhood’s first official dog park, but I’m interested in being involved on a wider scale by participating in the Marquette Neighborhood Association board. I look forward to the opportunity to work with other residents to continue to make this neighborhood a wonderful place to live and work. |
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Ralph Kuehn (Rutledge Street) I would like to run for the board of directors. I’ve lived collectively in Madison 11 years, 7 years in the neighborhood. After moving away from Madison for a job for several years, we intentionally choose to move back to the Marquette neighborhood to raise our family. I would like the opportunity to give something back to the neighborhood and community in which we reside. I’ve assisted with the Lapham/Marquette PTG event planning and fundraising, 4H volunteer leader, Lapham elementary classroom volunteer, volunteered at Yahara and Orton Park festivals, organizer/volunteer for the Great Taste of the Midwest and served on other Madison Homebrewer and Tasters Guild (MHTG) committees and event coordination. |
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Todd Jensen (Rutledge Street) I moved into the Marquette Neighborhood about six years ago. I have served on the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center Board for the past five years and was first elected to the MNA Board in October 2010. Over the past two years, I’ve been involved to varying degrees with nearly all of MNA’s committees. I currently serve as chairman of the Preservation and Development (P&D) Committee and spent the past year as MNA’s Vice President. The past two years have been very interesting in terms of P&D’s involvement with several projects, some of which brought new businesses to the Willy Street area. The addition of new restaurants has led to several discussions about the kind of businesses the neighborhood needs and wants, acceptable operating hours and noise levels for these businesses and the general direction that development should take in the neighborhood. I look forward to continuing to work with developers and potential businesses to bring renewed economic activity and vitality to the Marquette Neighborhood, while striving to maintain the values that make our neighborhood such a unique part of Madison. |
