Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Mary Snider New Oro Valley Vice Mayor

As reported in The Explorer, Mary Snider will be the new Vice Mayor. We wish her well. We also wish Mayor Satish Hiremath well.

Councilmember Mary Snider takes vice mayor role


At the Jan. 5 Oro Valley Town Council meeting, the council appointed Mary Snider as vice mayor. Vice Mayor Snider has served on council since the spring of 2010. The vice mayor role is a one-year term and has been filled by Councilmember Bill Garner for the past year.

“I am honored to take on this new role,” commented Vice Mayor Snider. “I appreciate the council’s trust in me and look forward to moving forward on council initiatives.”

Vice Mayor Snider currently serves as a board member of the Arizona Automobile Theft Authority Board, vice-president of the Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation, and Oro Valley Community Foundation.

She is also the inaugural recipient of the Northern Pima County Chamber of Commerce Legacy Award. She received the 2006 Citizen of the Year award from the Oro Valley Police Department.

1 comment:

Victorian Cowgirl said...

A story about the San Jose Plaza appears in the left hand column but there isn't a separate posting for it so I'm leaving my post here.

Regarding the creation of a left-hand turn into the plaza for SB motorists on Oracle Road, Mark Rusin, owner of The Loop, said a southbound left-turn lane is important to the success of the businesses in the plaza.

Consider Casas Adobes Plaza at the corner of Ina and Oracle. Although it's easy to access the plaza from SB Oracle, if you're traveling NB on Oracle you have to make a U-turn at Ina and then backtrack to access this plaza.

If you access it from EB Ina, you can only access the REAR of the plaza. In order to get to the FRONT of the plaza (by car), you must drive through the entire back parking lot, stopping at numerous speed bumps along the way, turn left on the side street, turn right on SB Oracle, make a U-turn onto NB Oracle, make another U-turn back onto SB Oracle at the light at Ina, and then turn into the plaza. Whew! Yet in spite of this, that plaza is always packed.

Some will say that you can park in the rear of the plaza and then walk to the front, but that's not always feasible for those with handicaps.

Currently, the ONLY way to enter the FRONT of that plaza is via SB Oracle and yet the plaza thrives.