City of Albuquerque
File #: EC-22-111   
Type: Executive Communication Status: Confirmed
File created: 8/1/2022 In control: City Council
Final action: 8/15/2022
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Mayor's appointment of Mr. Samuel Jensen to the Transit Advisory Board
Attachments: 1. EC-111

 

INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM                                                                                                      July 19, 2022

 

TO:                                          Isaac Benton, President, City Council

 

FROM:                     Timothy M. Keller, Mayor

 

SUBJECT:                     title

Mayor's appointment of Mr. Samuel Jensen to the Transit Advisory Board

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I am submitting for your advice and consent the following name for appointment to the Transit Advisory Board in accordance with the City of Albuquerque Ordinance 2-7-1.

 

 

APPOINTEE NAME      TERM

   

Mr. Samuel Jensen                                                                           September 30, 2025  Albuquerque, NM 87102   Mr. Jensen is a recent transplant to Albuquerque who works in the non-profit sector on issues related to food insecurity. He relies on the bus and his bike to get around the city. Mr. Jensen has a masters' degree in urban planning, and has worked in transportation planning, as a city bus driver and dispatcher in the Midwest, a train conductor, and as a community organizer. He also was co-founder of the Milwaukee Transit Riders Union, where he spent eight years working to organize bus riders around improvements to Milwaukee's bus system. Mr. Jensen is passionate about community engagement and improving Albuquerque's transit system for all Burqueños.   A resident of Council District 2, Mr. Jensen will fill an at-large position; his first term will expire on September 30, 2025.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Membership

                                                               

Representing                                                               Name                                                                                                         Term

1.

At Large

Mr. Harris A. Balkin

09/30/2022

2.

At Large

Vacant

09/30/2022

3.

At Large

Vacant

09/30/2023

4.

At Large

Ms. Jennifer Jackson

09/30/2023

5.

At Large

Vacant

09/30/2022

6.

At Large

Mr. Stephen Pilon

09/30/2024

7.

At Large

Mr. Rikk Murphey

09/30/2023

8.

At Large

Mr. Christopher Ramirez

09/30/2022

9.

At Large

Ms. Patricia Salisbury

09/22/2022

10.

At Large

Vacant

09/30/2024

11.

At Large

Mr. Ryan Lee Haak

09/30/2021

12.

At Large

Mr. Don McIver

09/30/2024

 

 

 

 

                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transit Advisory Board

Appointment of Mr. Samuel Jensen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lawrence Rael, Chief Administrative Officer                                                                                                   Date