Carlotta Collette named Metro Deputy Council President
News release: Jan. 4, 2010
Contact: Karen Kane, 503-797-1942
Metro Councilor Carlotta Collette has been named Deputy President of the Council. She was appointed to the position by President David Bragdon, and confirmed by the Metro Council to serve a one-year term through December, 2010.
As deputy, Collette leads the Council when the President is absent and assists with management of the Council's legislative agenda and calendar. She presided over her first meeting on Jan. 14, when more than 60 people testified before the Metro Council at a hearing on urban and rural reserves.
Collette chairs Metro's Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation, which determines regional priorities and projects slated for funding with federal transportation dollars. Collette also is Council lead on the High Capacity Transit System Plan, planning for the region's next 30 years of investments in light rail, commuter rail, regional streetcars and bus rapid transit. She is also the co-chair of the Lake Oswego to Portland Transit Project Steering Committee, and the Metro Council liaison to the Nature in Neighborhoods program.
She was appointed to the Metro Council in November 2007, and was elected to her first four-year term in November, 2008. Collette represents District 2, which includes the cities of Gladstone, Johnson City, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, Oregon City, Rivergrove, West Linn, a portion of Southwest Portland, and large unincorporated areas of Clackamas County.
Metro, the regional government that serves 1.5 million people who live in the 25 cities and three counties of the Portland metropolitan area, provides planning and other services that protect the nature and livability of our region.
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Councilor Carlotta Collette
Councilor Carlotta Collette represents District 2 which includes the cities of Gladstone, Johnson City, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, Oregon City, Rivergrove and West Linn, a portion of Southwest Portland, and unincorporated portions of Clackamas County.