Inside the City of Tumwater Date: November 17, 2020 To:
Mayor Pete Kmet City Councilmembers City Employees
From: John Doan, City Administrator
$35 For You and 2% for the City
PEOPLE
We need just TWO more people to meet our Well
City requirement. Set up a Castlight account and
then start earning the 350 points needed to help us
get to our 2% savings on our medical premium and earn yourself $35! It is super easy–and participation in the personal health assessment optional! If you
Traffic Signal Technician Joins Us
don’t yet have an account, visit www.awctrust.org or
Signal Tech in the Transportation and Engineering
Check with Juliann McGarva for assistance. (I’ve done
Matthew Bartlett is joining the City as a new Traffic Department. Matthew has 14 years of public employment doing this kind of work in Lacey,
Tacoma and most recently, the Seattle Department of Transportation. He also had his own electrical contracting business for a decade, so he knows all
download the Castlight app from your app store. it and it is both easy to get started and easy to get the necessary points. Even the survey wasn’t difficult.)
Kudos to Employees
• A Capitol Way resident wrote to say “kudos to
about those amps and volts. Welcome, Matthew!
everyone involved in the Custer/Capitol Way
Finance Director Pursuing the Next Chapter
street as a “dream to drive on.” Thank you to
Ursula Euler, the City’s Finance Director, has
announced she is leaving the City the middle of December. Ursula started in December of 2014 and has
been
instrumental
in
the
continuous
improvement of financial practices and budgeting in the City - along with clean audits. She helped launch
our successful MPD and TBD; financed fire trucks and
golf equipment; and was valuable to the City through the COVID experience of the past nine months. We will miss her and wish her well in the next chapter of life's journey.
transportation project.” She described the new everyone involved in that big project.
• A golf customer wrote about Dave Nickerson,
describing him as the “true professional just as I knew he was.” Also on the subject of golf, which has had a stellar summer and autumn, the leader
of a youth-focused, local nonprofit organization
wrote to say what a great time their young people had at the course and how they want to come back and play more often.
• A viewer of the recent Council worksession that included a training on suicide prevention