President's Message: CAPE's Changing Leadership By Carlos Clayton, CAPE President

Thank you to Dennis Ruh and John Fallon for their past service; Welcome Jonathon Bell and Carl Lindner. 

Service on the CAPE Board of Directors is time consuming and always a challenge. CAPE members deeply appreciate the decades John Fallon spent on our Board of Directors and on the CAPE Benefit Trust. Likewise, Dennis Ruh leaves big shoes to fill given his many years of experience and fearlessness in standing up for CAPE members’ rights. Both will be greatly missed. On behalf of CAPE members and directors, we wish John and Dennis all the best in retirement!

CAPE members Jonathon Bell, Department of Regional Planning, and Carl Lindner, Office of the Assessor, were elected recently by CAPE members to fill the two vacant seats on the Board. CAPE Board representation by Jonathan Bell at Regional Planning is a very positive development for CAPE. Jonathan stepped up to fill a Board vacancy for us by appointment early this year. His contributions to CAPE over more than eight years of dedicated membership and activism – including service on the Political Endorsement Committee, the Engineering Technicians Negotiating Team, as well as being named a Top-Recruiter multiple times and a one-time recipient of the CAPE Bob Remes’ Outstanding Volunteer Service Award – have been greatly appreciated. Likewise, the additional Assessor’s Office voice that Carl Lindner will provide is sure to strengthen our Board’s collective commitment to CAPE members. In just three years of County employment Carl has already served as Vice-Chair of CAPE’s Political Endorsement Committee and on the Appraisers’ Negotiating Team.  

These new Board members step in at a critical juncture for our Association. With Salary and Fringe Benefit contract negotiations both in progress, Jonathan and Carl will find themselves deep in the discussions very soon. I know that their voices will be a positive influence helping to promote CAPE members' interests.

Jonathan and Carl join each of the incumbent CAPE Board members who were also reelected in the recent CAPE Board election. I am grateful there is strong CAPE leadership in place for the tough year ahead. 

Jonathan P. Bell	Carl Lindner