Upper Madison Valley resident Emily Wheeler has joined the Citizen Implementation Review Panel (CIRP), which is responsible for providing citizen oversight of Seattle Public Library's "Libraries for All" building program.
The 15-member panel meets monthly to monitor and provide feedback on implementation of the voter-approved "Libraries for All" program. CIRP volunteers are appointed to staggered three-year terms by the Seattle Public Library board of trustees and the City Neighborhood Council (CNC) and are confirmed by the City Council.
Wheeler works for Stemper Architects of Seattle and also takes on independent projects in residential design and renovations. She has a master's degree in architecture from the University of Washington, where she did her thesis on the relationship between Seattle street design and the urban development grid.
Stephen Lundgren, chairman of the CNC Budget Committee that recommended Wheeler for CIRP, said committee members were impressed with Wheeler's "insightful knowledge of Seattle's neighborhoods, her professional skills in project coordination, her awareness of potential areas of improved library services, and her interest in serving."
Seattle voters passed the $196.4 million "Libraries for All" bond measure in 1998. The plan calls for improving or replacing all 22 branch libraries, building five new branches and building a new central library. For more information, visit the Library's Web site at www.spl.org and select "Libraries for All capital projects."
(For more information, call Caroline Young Ullmann, Library communications assistant, 206-615-1627.)
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