Town of Cary

Town of Cary
Town Clerk’s Office
P.O. Box 8005, Cary, NC 27512-8005
Phone No. (919) 319-4508
Fax No. (919) 460-4910
e-mail: Karen.gray@townofcary.org

Please contact the town clerk's office with any questions about this application. The e-mail address is karen.gray@townofcary.org; the phone number is 469-4011. Current Town of Cary employees are not eligible to serve on Town Council appointed boards and commissions.

PLEASE NOTE: This application is a public record under North Carolina law and will be shared with third parties upon request and without notice. If there is any information you do not want released to the public, please do not include it.

Application for Town of Cary Environmental Advisory Board

PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT CLEARLY

Name:	Hadsell	Andrew	H
	(Last)	(First)	(Middle)

Address:	118 Castlefern Drive	Cary	NC	27513
	Street & No.	City	State	Zip

Daytime Tel #:

(919) 868-6968

Evening Tel #:

(919) 234-9185

E-Mail Address:

ahadsell@nc.rr.com

Place of Employment/ Employer:

Chas. H. Sells, Inc. (civil engineering firm located in Cary)

Current Position (Title):

Stormwater Group Leader

Brief Description of Duties:

Manage staff and projects working on stormwater and sustainable design projects and initiatives

Answer all of the question below in full

The Board will consist of nine members to serve staggered terms that vary in length up to three years: five will serve as “At-Large Citizens” with the remaining four to serve as “Technical Experts” or “Partners”. Your professional history helps in filling these vacancies. Visit the boards and commissions Web page on the Town’s Web site at http://www.townofcary.org/boards/boards.htm for information regarding the Environmental Advisory Board.

Technical Experts include but may not be limited to the following:

Energy: Electrical and Fuels	Environmental Economics
Energy: Renewable, Alternative Technologies	Environmental Toxicology
Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Waste to Energy	Government Regulations, Compliance, Grants and Incentives.
Water Quality	Transit – Oriented Development
Air Quality and Public Health	Sustainable Design and Standards in the Building Industry (i.e. ENERGY STAR, LEED)
Urban Vegetation/Forestry/Wildlife	Social Change and Environmental Awareness
Industrial Ecology	Creative and Collaborative Problem Solving
Conservation and Natural Resource Management	Action Planning for Sustainable Results

Partners include but may not be limited to the following:

University	NCSU Solar Center
Government	US EPA
Non-profit organizations, networks	Municipal Network for Energy Efficiency Sierra Club, www.coolcities.us/
Utilities	Progress Energy, Burlington Electric, Duke Energy
Private Sector	Cherokee Investments
Associations	Homebuilders’ Association NCLM Energy

The council understands that some citizens interested in serving the Town may be unable to make a three year commitment, especially with a newly established board. Please indicate in order of preference, your ability to commit to the following:

3	Through February 1, 2009
2	2 years
1	3 years

Please indicate for which of the following positions you are applying:

	At Large Citizen Representative
x	Technical Expert Representative
	Partner Representative

If applying for technical expert or partner, indicate affiliation and list any relevant experience/qualifications. Tell in your own words why you are the best qualified candidate, what you could bring to this particular board, and any other information that might distinguish your application from the other candidates. (You may attach additional documentation to support your position.)

I do not have a specific affiliation. I claim to apply as a technical expert as I feel confident my knowledge, experience, and qualifications support my serving the following: water quality, conservation and natural resource management, government regulations etc., transit-oriented development, creative and collaborative problem solving, and action planning for sustainable results. In my current professional position I am providing consulting services meeting a wide variety of sustainable design conditions. These include but are not limited to involvement with developing green travel plans for large corporations, designing environmental education facilities, supporting design efforts for enhancements to local greenway networks (promotion of development of a green infrastructure), and providing master planned community design to meet high standards of localized better site design criteria. Additionally, I serve on a Taskforce for my parent company, WSP Group, and am working on a research and implementation initiative to identify and commit a group of US companies to commence sustainable business practices as a means to support continued project opportunities in sustainable design through a holistic approach to the service offering as well as the product. This effort will culminate in actions taken with a global board of directors. I have included the Town of Cary in the presentation to highlight the current initiative to move towards a paperless (digital) submission program for site plan review. The parent company has been involved in such projects as Masdar, the world’s first carbon free city being constructed in the Dubai region. The work I am doing as part of this taskforce is outside my billable and salaried time; a true testament to my level of interest and commitment to implementing solutions in sustainability. I believe in achieving responsible solutions, and not being too quick to join the bandwagon and invest in “flavor of the week” ideas that in some cases are proving to have a negative impact versus the expected result. In this sense I can provide a valuable service to this Board as a “devil’s advocate’ of sorts, encouraging all involved to maintain a collected approach in moving forward with recommendations. Finally, my standing as both a Professional Engineer and a Certified Floodplain Manager are a reflection of my high level of ethics and integrity in how I impact the built and natural environment. Most importantly, they serve as a symbol of my commitment to work to protect the safety and health of the public.

List any board or commission on which you are presently serving, or have served on in the past, either in the Town of Cary or elsewhere, noting any relevancy to the Environmental Advisory Board.

Town Center Review Commission

If you previously served on a Town board or commission, did you fulfill your term to its completion (NOTE: An appointed term can be for 1, 2 or 3 years)?

Yes

If not, please explain and provide dates of service:

Have you completed the Town’s School of Government class? (Completion of the school of government is not a requirement for service on a board or commission)

Yes

Polo shirt size:

2XL

3XL

How did you become aware of this volunteer opportunity with the Town of Cary? (Please check all that apply):

	Newspaper	x	Town Web page		BUD Newsletter
	BUD TV		Other (please specify)

Citizens appointed to any board or commission are required to read and sign the Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Guidelines for Town Advisory Boards and Commissions. Please visit the Town’s Web site at http://www.townofcary.org/boards/boards.htm to review these guidelines. Your submission of this application indicates that you have read and agree to sign these guidelines in their present form if appointed to serve on this board.

Do you have any personal or business interest(s) that could create a conflict (either real or perceived) if you are appointed to serve?

Yes

If yes, please explain:

Opportunities for private consulting firms to design and implement solutions related to “green” and sustainable practices from a civil engineering perspective would likely be of interest to my employer and I would need to remove myself from any involvement in potential procurement of services.

I understand the following:

that all of the information on this application is a public record
that if not initially appointed to serve this application will be active through August 30 of the current year
that an updated application is required during the application period of September 1-December 1 to be considered for reappointment or future appointment to this board
that regular attendance by members at board or commission meetings is important and an appointed member may be removed for missing three (3) or more meetings during the calendar year (February through December)

By submission of this application I certify that all of the information contained herein is true to the best of my knowledge. (If returning via U.S. mail, please sign below; your signature is not required if the application is returned as an e-mail attachment.)

Signature _________________________________ Date: ________________________