Tucson Empowerment Zone
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Professional Advisory Group
The role of the Community Advisory Group is to work with Project staff to:
- Develop communication with leaders of for-profit, nonprofit, and government entities involved in housing (developers/builders, financial, policymakers, etc.);
- Determine group goals, activities, schedule, agendas;
- Review Project plans, activities, and work;
- Make recommendations and provide guidance.
Membership list:
- Karen Thoreson, City of Tucson, City Manager’s Office
- Emily Nottingham, City of Tucson Community Services Dept.
- Jack Siry, City of Tucson Community Services Dept.
- Albert Elias, City of Tucson Urban Planning & Design
- Hector Martinez, City of Tucson Urban Planning & Design
- Ernie Duarte, City of Tucson Development Services
- Jessie Sanders, City of Tucson Development Services
- Margaret Kish, Pima County Community Development and Housing
- Gary Bachman, Pima County Community Development and Housing
- Betty Villegas, Pima County Community Development and Housing
- Richard Salaz, City of South Tucson Planning Dept.
- Walker Smith, City of South Tucson Planning Dept.
- Gerald Porter, City of South Tucson Housing Dept.
- Sharon Atwell, US Dept. of HUD, Tucson Field Office
- Tillie Arvizu, Chicanos Por La Causa
- Noemi Navarro, La Causa Construction
- Peggy Hutchison, Primavera Foundation
- Michael McDonald, Habitat for Humanity Tucson
- Jesus Briones, Del Bac Building Contractors
- Tom Doucette, Doucette Homes Inc.
- Michael Keith, Contemporary West Development
- John Wesley Miller, John Wesley Miller Development
- Tom Wuelpern, Rammed Earth Development
- Sandy Fagan, Southwest Fair Housing Council
- Ann Meyer, DIRECT Center for IndependenceJim Murphy, Pima Council On Aging