Community Service Resume

Town of Wayland, Wayland, Massachusetts, April 2003 to April 2006:
Wrote a Turbo C++ computer program to perform calculations for mathematical distance, Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) cost, adjusted comparable sales prices, weighted comparable sales estimate and Market Estimate for real property in Wayland to support the application for abatement of my own property taxes in Wayland. As a result of this effort, fifteen years prior abatement application experience, and my first-hand experience working in construction as a young man, I campaigned and was elected on April 1, 2003 to a three year term as one of three Assessors in the Town of Wayland. In May, 2004 and May, 2005 I was elected Chairman of the Wayland Board of Assessors.

• one of five founding corporate directors for NED/DOW Neighbors, Inc., a non-profit neighborhood group responsible for public education and oversight for the cleanup of the former Dow Chemical research laboratory in Wayland, formerly a Tier-1A toxic waste site in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts;
• helped obtain five consecutive $10,000.00 grants in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 from the Massachusetts State Department of Environmental Protection (MA DEP) to assist in the site cleanup, oversight and public education;
• returned $10,000.00 grant in 1999 due to site cleanup closure activities;
• hired technical environmental and toxicology experts via grant monies;
• produced and participated in numerous public hearings and meetings for public education and comment via MA DEP Public Involvement Plan (PIP) site status;
• participated in workshops and assisted in presenting opening Citizen Presentation remarks, and in presenting the workshop titled "Are We Getting Toxic Sites Cleaned Up?: The New Hazardous Waste Clean Up Law" at the March 25th, 1995 Toxics Action '95 9th Annual Conference, with Keynote Speaker Scott Harshbarger, Massachusetts Attorney General;
• participated in workshops and presented a workshop titled "Toxic Waste Sites: Ensuring timely and effective cleanups" jointly with James Colman, Assistant Commissioner for Waste Site Cleanup, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, at the March 30th, 1996 Toxics Action '96 Conference: (www.toxicsaction.org) 10 Years of Neighbors Helping Neighbors, with guest speakers Lois Gibbs, Founder of the Love Canal Homeowners Association, and Jan Schlichtmann, attorney for the families at the Woburn Toxic Trial;
• participated in workshops and presentations at the April 5th, 1997 Toxics Action '97 Conference on Rebuilding Democracy, featuring Dianne Dumanoski, Co-Author of "Our Stolen Future", and U.S. Representative James McGovern;
• represented NED/DOW Neighbors, Inc. at meetings with Natick Selectman Jay Ball and Natick residents Dick and Jill Miller in the Natick Cancer Task Force in 1997 to investigate an apparent cluster of high cancer rates in certain Natick neighborhoods;
February 8th, 1999: The Wayland Selectmen sign the Purchase and Sale agreement to acquire the former Dow Chemical site in Wayland.
• petitioned Wayland and persuaded Spring 1998 Wayland Town meeting to purchase the former Dow Chemical site for conservation and recreation usage, eventually acquired in 2000;
• attended the National Premiere of the film "A Civil Action" via invited donation on January 6th, 1999 at the Wang Theatre in Boston, all proceeds benefitting The Jimmy Fund for pediatric cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Boston Ronald McDonald House ®, the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), and the Toxics Action Center (TAC);
• participated in interviews on February 28th, 2002 at the John Snow Institute (JSI) in Boston for a case study of the cleanup of the former Dow Chemical Research Laboratory in Wayland.

• Wayland Route 30 Development committee: Member, 1996-2000;
• Wayland Route 30 Intersections committee: Member, 2000-2003;
• Wayland Route 30 Corridor Study committee: Chairman, July 2002-July 2003;

• Acting and singing performer in The Sudbury Savoyards March 1984 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience" at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, all proceeds benefitting the relief of world hunger
• Member of the Sudbury Savoyards Board of Trustees, 1984 and 1985