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Good Guy Award

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We are really proud that Great City Board member and volunteer leader won the Municipal League’s Doug Mason Award, awarded to a person, age 35 or under, who during the previous year made a special contribution to the people of King County.

In  2006 Brice led the Open Space Seattle 2100 Charrette process, leading the visioning for Seattle’s open space plan for the next 100 years.  At Great City, he led our Green Infrastructure group, which laid the foundation for a broad community effort, the Seattle Green Legacy Coalition, to advance parks and open space.

Brice led the Green Legacy coalition in lobbying city council to put a Pro Parks Levy on Seattle’s 2008 ballot, and worked on the panel of stakeholders to plan the levy.

Once the Pro Parks Levy was on the ballot, Brice rolled up his sleeves and jumped into the campaign.  Because of Brice’s vision, leadership and work, Seattle has 143 million in funding for Parks. The levy funding will bring Seattle new neighborhood parks in densely populated areas, will bring Seattle’s 23 of playgrounds up to federal safety standards, will restore Seattle’s playfields, provide spray parks and skate parks for Seattle’s youth, will provide green space acquisition, forest and stream restoration, shoreline access, funding for more community gardens and other trail, park facility and open space improvements.

In 2009 Brice will focus his attention on securing funding to write a Green Infrastructure plan for the underserved South East Seattle. We are proud to have Brice as one our leaders.  Congratulations on a well-deserved award.

Comments

5 Responses to “Good Guy Award”

  1. brice on February 6th, 2009 6:26 pm

    Good person award;-)

    Thanks for the kind words Michael, but you know it most of the things above wouldn’t have happened without a ton of help from an number of other people, notably you, Nate Cormier, the folks at the Parks Foundation and of course the crew at Mercury.

  2. Dan on February 8th, 2009 10:58 pm

    oh and don’t forget Bridgette.

    Congrats Brice!

  3. Brice Maryman on February 9th, 2009 9:20 pm

    yes, bridgette is the best. absolutely.

  4. michael on February 9th, 2009 10:29 pm

    You will notice that the the author chose a picture that includes Bridgette.

  5. brice on February 9th, 2009 10:47 pm

    that is why the author is much smarter than the subject of the piece.

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