Featured Mover: Lee Rafferty
Vancouver's Downtown Association hires new executive director
Vancouver's Downtown Association has announced that Lee Rafferty has been hired as executive director. Rafferty, a longtime business owner and small business advocate, has been an active VDA board member.
On the board's decision to offer the position to Ms. Rafferty, VDA president Lee Coulthard said, "Lee is an excellent choice for our organization. She understands the complexities of our downtown landscape, appreciates the importance of working in concert with other business districts and has a real love for the work that our organization does."
VDA has an active volunteer board of directors that is committed to invigorating the city's central business district. Recent initiatives include the development of a downtown retail strategy, helping to improve downtown's safety and security, investing in urban gathering places such as Turtle Place on the former bus mall property on 7th Street and sponsoring many events throughout the year like First Friday Artwalk.
Matt Faulkner
MacKay & Sposito, Inc is pleased to announce that Matt Faulkner has recently passed his Certified Federal Surveyor exam, joining a select group of around 300 surveyors in the nation.
The exam marks the end of a surveying program that provides extensive training for professional land surveyors dealing with federal survey processes and surveying of tribal lands. Faulkner, based in the firm's Vancouver office, has been with MacKay & Sposito since 2007, and has 10 years of surveying project management experience.
He is currently instructing a surveying class at Clark College as part of the Certified Survey Technician certificate program in addition to his work at M&S.
