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5 impact, and employers are actively involved in improving education and other community services - is key to the future of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. I am committed to the success and sustainability of this community. We need this process of discussion and exploration to determine how we can best protect and improve our community." Press Contacts: Chandler Burns, Chair, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber Board of Directors, 918-4339 Howard Lee, Chair, Council on a Sustainable Community, 880-9201 Charlie Fisher, Vice Chair, Council on a Sustainable Community, 96()-3821 The Council on a Sustainable Community Membership: Howard Lee, Chair, currently serves as chair of the North Carolina State Board of Education. Lee served as North Carolina State Senator representing District 16 from 1990 to 1994 and 1996 to 2002. He served as Mayor of Chapel Hill from 1969 to 1975. Charlie Fisher, Vice Chair, is the principal of the Lakeside Business Group, a Carrboro-based public policy consulting firm. Fisher is the former executive director of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Mark Zimmerman, Secretary, is an entrepreneur operating his own marketing firm, ZIMarketing, and partnering in a start-up company, Ablatrics. After z~ long career in marketing and advertising, Zimmerman owned Great Harvest Bread Company in Chapel Hill unti12002. Delores Bailey is a community organizer and associate director of EmPOWEIZment, Inc., a Chapel Hill-based community development organization. Bailey is a resident of the Northside neighborhood and life-long resident of Chapel Hill. Barbara Baker is the vice president for student support services and dean of student services at Durham Technical Community College. Baker has been active in efforts to determine the adult education needs of Orange County in preparation for the construction of a satellite Durham Tech campus in Orange County. James Carnahan is an environmentalist and advocate for walkable communities. Carnahan is a resident of Carrboro, proprietor of Matrix Design and the chair of the board of directors of the Village Project, Inc. Jim Carter is the senior vice president and senior market executive for Central Carolina Bank. Carter served as chair of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors from 1997 to 1999. Mark Crowell is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Economic Development and Director of the Office of Technology Development at UNC-Chapel Hill. A resident of downtown Chapel Hill, Crowell has a long history in the field of technology transfer and economic development has directed those efforts at both Duke University and North Carolina State University. Nick Didow, PhD was first elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board in 1995 and is Professor of Marketing at Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Didow served as chair of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board in 1999 and 2001. Scott Gardner is the Manager of Business and Government Relations for Duke Power for the Triangle region. Gardner is the chair of the board of directors of the Triangle United Way and served as the chair of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors in 1999.