City of Albuquerque
File #: EC-21-421   
Type: Executive Communication Status: Confirmed
File created: 9/8/2021 In control: City Council
Final action: 9/20/2021
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Mayor's appointment of Mr. Jeffrey Blair to the Para Transit Advisory Board
Attachments: 1. EC-421

 

INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM                                                                                                    August 14, 2021

 

TO:                                          Cynthia Borrego, President, City Council

 

FROM:                     Timothy M. Keller, Mayor

 

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Mayor's appointment of Mr. Jeffrey Blair to the Para Transit Advisory Board   

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I am submitting for your advice and consent the following name for appointment to the Para

Transit Advisory Board in accordance with the City of Albuquerque Resolution 2-7-1-1.    

 

 

APPOINTEE NAME                                                       TERM Mr. Jeffrey Blair                                                                      September 30, 2022  Albuquerque, NM 87111                                                                                                                                                                      Mr. Blair is 78 years old and has been totally blind for about 35 years. He has served in an advisory capacity or as a board member of state agencies or commissions for the blind in Texas and Georgia. He has also served as a member and as Chair of the New Mexico Commission for the Blind in 2001 and 2002. Mr. Blair was an adjunct faculty member of the University of New Mexico, Health Science and Library Information Center from 2013 to 2019. He was appointed by the U.S. Congress to serve on the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (from 1997 through 2010). His career included professional and management positions with IBM (1967 - 1997), the Medical Records Institute (1998 - 2005), and the Lovelace Clinic Foundation/LCF (2006 - 2012). He has his engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1965) and his MBA from Northwestern University (1967).

   

 

 

A resident of Council District 8, Ms. Blair will fill a vacancy as a mobility impaired member and his first term will expire September 30, 2022.

 

                                             Current Membership   Representing Name Term         1. Mobility Impaired Ms. Regina Mead 08/01/2023  2. Mobility Impaired Vacant  08/01/2021  3. Mobility Impaired Vacant  08/01/2021  4. Mobility Impaired Vacant 09/30/2019  5. Mobility Impaired Vacant 09/30/2019    6. Agency Representative Ms. Jayne Frandsen  09/30/2010  7. Agency Representative Vacant 09/30/2020  8. 9. Agency Representative Agency Representative Ms. Jacqueline H. Smith Ms. Keely Frazier 08/01/2021 08/01/2022           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        Para Transit Advisory Board     Appointment of Mr. Jeffrey Blair      Page 3                        ______________________________________                                        _____/_____/_____ Sarita Nair, Chief Administrative Officer                                    Date