Lea Dutton has been elected chair of San Anselmo’s nine-member Quality of Life Commission, which emphasizes sustainability and environmental projects and issues.
She succeeds Woody Weingarten, who served in that position for six years but recently relinquished it because of family health issues.
In a special election held during October’s regular commission meeting, Sita Khufu was elected vice chair, replacing Quinne Fokes, who has resigned her seat on the panel; and Chantal Maher was voted in as secretary, replacing Dutton.
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The new chair, a software consultant and website designer, runs an environmental resource website — globalstewards.org — and had founded the San Anselmo Cycle Chic site at sacyclechic.com.
A resident of San Anselmo since 2008, and Marin since 1993, Dutton is a University of Pennsylvania grad who’s also a graduate of the Environmental Forum of Marin.
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On Sept. 5 she became the third recipient of the Marin Energy Authority’s Charles F. McGlashan Advocacy Award — for encouraging MCE’s Deep Green 100 percent renewable energy option.
The Quality of Life Commission currently has three vacancies. Anyone interested in being appointed can pick up an application at town hall or download one from www.townofsananselmo.org
