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Problem solving skills will help Dunlap as deputy city manager BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
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racey Dunlap likes figuring out how to make things work. Her recent promotion at the city of Kirkland from finance director to deputy city manager will give her plenty of opportunities to do just that with the city’s Work
Program, which includes the redevelopments of Parkplace and Totem Lake Mall, as well as renovating City Hall. The promotion comes as part of an internal restructuring within the city. Other projects include completing the city’s Comprehensive Plan update, the Transportation Master Plan, as well as on the Fire Strategic
Plan and the Development biennium budget in the face Services Plan. of decreasing sales For Dunlap, who tax revenue while will be joining fellow preparing for the Deputy City Manag2011 annexation of er Marilynne Beard, 33,000 people. challenges have been Though she’s part of her job since been with the city she first took over as nearly a decade, Tracey Dunlap finance director in Dunlap’s experience 2006, where she soon with its develophad to find a way to tailor the ment goes back even
further while working at the Redmond-based Financial Consulting Solutions Group. Growing up in Connecticut, Dunlap earned an industrial engineering degree, later working at Chemical Bank in New York before going into labor forecasting for Grumman Aerospace Corporation on Long Island
during the defense build in the mid 1980s. Grumman was the leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft, including the famous F-14 Tomcat. By the late 1980s, however, Dunlap predicted that the labor demand had reached its peak and would soon be on the decline. In 1990 she and her [ more DUNLAP page 6 ]
Screening of film on Olympic cyclists at KPC tomorrow BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
Lake Washington High School fastpitch softball player Tori Bivens faces the first batter at the Kangs new home field on April 1. The game marked the first time in school history the team has played on campus. MATT PHELPS, Kirkland Reporter
Kangs play first home game ... at home Emotional opening of new field marks new era for defending state champs The Lake Washington High School fastpitch softball team won the state title last year. However, the
Kang’s first home game this season might have been just as emotional. The April 1 game was the first played on the high school campus in
the team’s decades-long history after parents wrote letters to school and administration officials requesting better facilities. The contest was a
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BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
Two years before the 2012 London Summer Olympics, Kirkland resident and cycling Olympian Jennie Reed was determined to walk away with a medal as part of the U.S. Women’s Cycling Team, despite it being her first time competing in a newlycreated Olympic event. Ultimately, despite a lack of support, funding and resources, the team was able to take the silver medal, the first for the U.S. women’s track cycling in over 20 years. A new film, “Personal Gold,” tells the story of how Reed, along with teammates Dotsie Bausch, Sarah Hammer and Lauren Tamayo, managed to pull it off. It will be shown at the Kirkland Performance Center during a private screening at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Running at 80 minutes, the film covers various
topics, including the Lance Armstrong doping scandal that erupted right before the Olympics, and also uses footage recorded during the women’s training prior to the Olympics in Mallorca, Spain as they struggle to recover from a disappointing fifth place performance at the World Championship in April of that year. To improve before the Olympics, Reed said, the team had made several significant changes in the training, one of which was writing their own training program. They also began training together every day, whereas before they had been mainly training individually and only together during week-long camps every other five weeks. Still, they encountered problems, one of which was a lack of resources, according to Reed. The team had only a single coach, Benjamin Sharp, compared [ more SILVER 5 page 5 ]