Inside the City of Tumwater Date: December 22, 2021 To:
Mayor Pete Kmet City Councilmembers City Employees
From: John Doan, City Administrator
PEOPLE Both will attend the Lacey Fire Recruit Academy starting February 7, 2022. Welcome to Tumwater Devin and Travis!
Erika Stone Joins Fire as Admin. Assistant
Erika Stone comes to the Fire Department from the State Department of Natural Resources in the Wildfire Forest Health and Resiliency Division. Before
DNR, she worked for the Insurance Commissioner. Welcome to Tumwater, Erika – even though you
already live here! Thank you for bringing your
administrative and fire service experience to the City.
Two Firefighters Join the City
The City has hired two firefighters to fill open positions: Devin Gorman and Travis Pogue-Leyva. Devin is from the Shelton area and currently works as an emergency department technician at Swedish
Medical Center in Seattle. She is also a resident
volunteer firefighter with the Brown Points/Dash
Point Fire Department. She has an associate degree from South Seattle Community College.
Travis is from the Olympia area and currently works
Communications Specialist Joining Us from Yelm The new position of Community Engagement Specialist (formerly the Digital Media Specialist position
eliminated
during
COVID
staffing
reductions) will be filled by Brianna Feller. She is a graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in Communications. Most recently she was the
Communications Specialist at the City of Yelm and
previously was a communications intern with the Port of Olympia.
We look forward to welcoming Brianna on January 3, 2022.
Doug Sampson Rounds Out Utility Billing Team Doug Sampson brings three and a half years of utility
and customer service experience with Pierce County
Public Works to the City Finance Department. Doug
as a Patient Transporter at Providence St. Peter
is filling the vacant Accounting Assistant position
Bay Fire Department. He has a bachelor’s degree
has experience with a software transition like the one
Hospital. He is a volunteer firefighter with the South
working primarily at the front counter. Doug already
from the University of Washington.
in our future. Welcome to the team, Doug.