Sharon has lived in White Rock for over 25 years and served on the County Council in 1996 by appointment and was elected in 1998-2002.  She currently serves on several boards and committees in our community including the Los Alamos School Foundation, Kiwanis, YMCA, and serves as an adult leader for JUNTOS and Los Alamos Youth Leadership (LAYL).  She is one of the founding members of Leadership Los Alamos and a graduate of Leadership New Mexico.  Sharon assisted in the development of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board organization and serves as a part-time paid staff to the Board. 

Sharon grew up in the Pojoaque Valley and attended Santa Fe Business College.  She is married to Steven Girrens and they have two college age children, Quinn and Craig.

Ronald Selvage grew up primarily in San Antonio, Texas.  He moved to Los Alamos in 1993 to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Graduate Research Assistant on a 6 month appointment.  He has been a resident of Los Alamos for 15 of the last 18 years, and is currently a Group Leader in the Safety Basis Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Ron has earned BS and MS degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University. 

Ron’s involvement in the community of Los Alamos began shortly after moving here in 1993 when he and his wife both became active in the Los Alamos Mountaineers Club (LAMC), where they organized and ran the annual climbing competition for two years, and where Ron eventually became president of the LAMC in 1996.  In 2005, he was selected to be in the class of Leadership Los Alamos (LLA) and graduated in 2006.  Ron served as Co-Vice Chair for the Leadership Los Alamos Board of Directors for 2007-2008 and served as Co-Chair for 2008-2009.  In 2006, Ron served on a County board as a member of the Los Alamos Tax Advisory Board, and in 2007 was elected as Vice Chair.   In 2007, he served on the Steering Committee organized by the County to develop the White Rock Downtown Master Plan/ Investment Strategy. Ron is also involved in other areas of the Los Alamos community.  He has served as a member of the Vestry for Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church from 2004 through 2006, and was elected to serve as the Junior Warden for 2004.  He has coached several of his son’s youth sports teams including football, baseball, and basketball. Ron has participated in several Duathlons and Triathlons with his family in Los Alamos and elsewhere.  Ron and his wife also danced in the Los Alamos Light Opera version of The Music Man.

Ron, along with several investors, owns the Best Western Hilltop House Hotel in Los Alamos.  The first business he started in town was the Trinity Beverage Company in 2004, and he has been involved in the business community and the economic development of Los Alamos ever since. 

Ron’s priorities on the County Council include:

• Promoting effective economic development in Los Alamos County including developing more retail opportunities as well as a diversification of our economic base.
• Efficient utilization of the County's resources, and
• Listening to the citizens of Los Alamos.

Background

Fran was born and brought up in the small town of Galion, Ohio, spending summers in a log cabin on the wooded shore of a Michigan lake.  Her last three years of high school were spent in a rural school outside Galion, with 12 classmates, 100 total students K through 12. 

Fran has a Bachelors degree in physics from Oberlin College and a Masters degree in physics from Smith College, a Ph.D. in materials science from University of Virginia, and a Certificate from the Segundo Curso Panamericano de Metalurgia Nuclear in Buenos Aires.

Current and Recent Community Service

County Council two terms - 2001-2008, 2011 - Council Chair 1 year, Vice Chair 2 years; Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) (national), Treasurer of ECA 2006 -2008, 2011; NM Municipal League Insurance Board 4 years, +2011; Northern NM Citizens' Advisory Board ~9 years, NNMCAB V-Chair 1 year, Com. Chair 4 years; Los Alamos/Sarov Sister Cities Initiative (LASSCI),  LASSCI Treasurer 2005 to present; Kiwanis member since 2000, 2011 Kiwanis President; Chamber of Commerce member since 2000; and Main Street Futures Committee 2004-present.

Career experience includes:

2 years at Bell Laboratories, working on the effects of composition on the properties of ceramic resistor bodies!

Just short of 10 years at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, analyzing a wide variety of materials by emission spectroscopy and setting up a service analytical electron microscopy laboratory.

A total of 19 years at Westinghouse Hanford, Boeing Computer Services, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories.  Work at Hanford included electron microscopy of irradiated stainless steel reactor fuel rod cladding, setting up unclassified computer security regulations, and writing Environmental Impact Statements for reactor waste disposal across the country, among many other things. 

Priorities for the Community

Run a transparent, citizen-oriented government and honor citizen input.  Establish two-way communication between Council and the citizens

Develop policies to enhance downtown, encourage local shopping, attract high-tech and cottage enterprises, and increase economic diversity

Minimize uncertainty and delays in building permitting process; establish a true one-stop shop

Continue work started on the Trinity Place, A-19, the Municipal Building and other Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) under the CIP public information procedure

I feel privileged to be a part of the Los Alamos community and I own a new home on the North Mesa in the Hawks Landing development. New to politics and relatively new to Los Alamos, I am humbled and deeply honored to have been elected to serve a term on Council.

I am a native of New Jersey and I hold a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Arts, and a Ph.D. degree all in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, which I received in 1996, 1999, and 2003 respectively. As part of my Ph.D. thesis work I built a satellite propulsion system similar to an ion engine of the Star Trek variety and used laser diagnostics and computer simulations to quantify in detail the operation of this engine. After finishing my studies I moved to Los Alamos in 2003 to become a Technical Staff Member at LANL.

Los Alamos County is a special place, where three elements come together: a high powered and unique scientific research laboratory, a truly beautiful and spectacular natural environment, and a wholesome small town atmosphere.

One of the most important tasks of a public official is to look carefully and critically at public spending. We need to make investments in Los Alamos and White Rock that promote economic development. We must adopt the most efficient management for our capital projects. It is essential that we have an accurate representation of the cost up front and that we hold the line on capital spending.

I believe that County government should put the needs of working people, families and small businesses first. We are a small community and we are best served by frugal projects. I have a blog at http://www.councilor-vincent.blogspot.com where I post my views on the important issues facing our community. My priorities include:

• Looking carefully and critically at public spending to ensure that our county government lives within its means.
• Bringing more high paying research jobs into the community, jobs that are less dependent on the laboratory.
• Promoting Los Alamos County as a gateway to nature and a premier destination for outdoor activities.
• Attracting more students into our community who will take advantage of opportunities for higher education in Los Alamos County and who will expand the workforce for our existing small businesses and restaurants.
• Helping to expand retail choices, encompassing goods and services that are not currently available, so that we keep more of our money within Los Alamos County.

David Izraelevitz was selected by the Council to fill the unexpired term of James Hall, who was recently appointed by Governor Martinez to be State House District 43 Representative. Hall fills the unexpired vacancy of Jeannette O. Wallace, who passed away unexpectedly in May.

David is a first generation American, immigrating to the US at the age of eleven from Uruguay, South America.  He moved to Los Alamos in 1995 from Boston with his wife Terry, and his three children Joseph, Jacob and Adam.

David has been involved in many community organizations in Los Alamos, including the Lunch Buddies Program at Barranca Mesa Elementary, the local middle school MathCounts team, the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund, the J.R. Oppenheimer Memorial Committee, and the local section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.  He has also been very active in the Los Alamos Jewish Center, serving in a variety of board positions, including President 1999-2001 and 2009-2011.  He was a member of the Los Alamos County Planning and Zoning Commission from 2004-2009, serving as chair 2008-2009, and most recently was a member of the Los Alamos County Charter Review Committee until his appointment to the Los Alamos County Council in July 2011.

David telecommuted the first ten years living in Los Alamos developing computer algorithms in automated terrain analysis for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  He joined LANL in 2005, where he is currently a Research Engineer and Senior Project Leader.  He received the B.S. degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the S.M., E.E., and Sc.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

Mike Wismer is a resident of Los Alamos and an independent County Councilor who agrees with Thomas Jefferson when he wrote “the people [not government]... are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” In that sense, it’s the regular citizens who opt to seek election to our governing body that form the very core of the municipalities across our nation. He believes It is the sacred duty our forefathers imagined and one that calls for dedication of self and principles. Mike has spent a lifetime learning and preparing to participate in the governance process.

Mike selected Los Alamos as his choice for a home after serving in the U.S Air Force for 21 years. He initially worked for SOC Los Alamos and now is a group leader in the Safeguards and Security Directorate at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As resident, he has come to appreciate both the historical significance and the unique, small town character Los Alamos represents. His passion for the community has vectored him towards community service since the day he arrived. Mike’s involvement started with an acting stint with the Los Alamos Little Theater followed by selection as a member of the Board of Directors. He hasn’t looked back since the path to community involvement took him from the Los Alamos Hockey Association through the County’s Parks and Recreation and Personnel Boards to a prior term on the County Council, the UNM-LA Advisory Board and the current four-year term on Council.

As a representative of the people of Los Alamos County, Mike believes we have a hill top community unlike any other in the country; a unique intersection between culture and community accentuated by a vibrant mountain setting that is worth working hard to preserve and maintain. He also believes Counties are the primary service providers and have a responsibility to protect the health, welfare and safety of its citizens, and to maintain and improve their quality of life. As such, the role of the County Council is to ensure our municipal government remains focused on efficient and demand driven delivery of core services to its citizenry. In his view, each member of Council has a fundamental responsibility to provide for an open government that is focused on services and responsive to the needs and inputs of those who reside in Los Alamos.

During the time he has lived in Los Alamos, Mike has been an active and involved champion for our community. Mike was also fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take the lessons he had learned from government experience to a war zone in Baghdad, Iraq where he worked for a major university to help the Iraqi government stand up its staffing structure for the first democratically elected Iraqi Parliament. Mike also has experience working within our community either as a volunteer or as an elected official, worked with foreign governments and, has developed a strong appreciation for democratic principles as well as a passion for Los Alamos.

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -- John Quincy Adams