JOHN G.

CLARK, JD, CPA

Attorney at Law

UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION
Legal

University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law

Juris Doctor, December, 1991
Honors: Dean's List: Fall, 1989; Winter, 1990; Winter, 1991.

Undergraduate

University of Missouri-Columbia
BSBA in Accountancy: August, 1986
Honors: Deans List, Graduated Magna Cum Laude

PROFESSIONAL
LICENSES &
AFFILIATIONS

Attorney. Licensed to practice in the State of Missouri since April

1992. Bar #39015
Missouri Bar Association
American Bar Association
Boone County Bar Association
Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity
Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Passed exam, November 1986.
Licensed in Missouri, February 1988. Currently inactive.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Currently inactive.

WORK EXPERIENCE
1/06 8/18/09

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

David Owens, General Manager
New Wave Corporation/KOPN 89.5 FM
915 E. Broadway
Columbia, MO 65201
573/874-1139
Initial: completely revised financial recording/reporting/budgeting
systems to support management and development decision-making.
Ongoing: maintained financial recording/reporting/budgeting
systems; handled annual financial audit; handled all compliance
reporting with major grantors CPB and MAC; prepared grant
applications; provided all administrative support for fundraising
activities.

6/94 - Present

ATTORNEY AT LAW - SELF-EMPLOYED

Solo practice providing legal and business consulting to small notfor-profit organizations with emphasis on compliance with the law
of exempt organizations. (Part time) Extensive civic and
community service and community development experience. See
separate Volunteer Professional Activity/Experience Resume
attached

12/2/2011
403 N. Ninth Street, Columbia, MO 65201-4807
(573)442-7077 Fax: (815) 425-8595 Email: jgclark@mchsi.com

WORK EXPERIENCE (Cont'd)

10/89 - 6/94

COMPTROLLER
Robert Jurgensmeyer, President
J&W Land Co., Inc./Prima Investments
2600 Forum Blvd, Suite F; Columbia, MO 65203
573/446-4711
Chief financial officer for land development company. Duties
included monthly financial statements, tax planning and
compliance for the corporation and related entities, job costing and
cost control, bank and lender relations, financial projections,
supervision of full-time bookkeeper.

9/84 - 8/88

TAX SUPERVISOR
David Rawlings, Tax Partner
Williams-Keepers, CPAs
2005 W. Broadway, Suite 100, Columbia, MO 65203
573/442-6171
Client responsibility: supervised 200+ accounts. Practice focused
on moderate to high-income individual clients and small business
clients (primarily S-corporations and partnerships). Developed
expertise in alternative minimum tax issues and passive income
issues. Tax department administration: supervised junior staff;
coordinated continuing professional education for tax staff;
designed/ implemented quality control procedures for tax
department.

6/79 - 8/84

TAX STAFF
David Rawlings, Tax Partner
Williams-Keepers, CPAs
2005 W. Broadway, Suite 100, Columbia, MO 65203
Served client accounts: research, planning, advice; return
interviews, preparation, and review; billing and collection.

RELEVANT SKILLS/
TRAINING/
EXPERIENCE

Extensive community development/citizen participation/

organizational development training and experience. Selfemployed for seventeen years. See separate Volunteer Professional
Activity/ Experience Resume attached.

CAREER
INTERESTS

Interface of public and private sectors, such as public/private/

nonprofit joint ventures; ADR; business planning; public policy;
judicial administration; human resources management; efforts to
engage citizens in public decision-making; community
development through neighborhood associations, alliances, etc.;
futures-based action-planning processes to unite vision and action
for change; organizational development incorporating these
approaches.

REFERENCES

On request.

JOHN G. CLARK, JD, CPA

Volunteer Professional Activity/Experience Resume
Community Activities and Affiliations:
Current:
GrOW Grandparents and Others on Watch, Board member, Treasurer
REDI High Speed Internet Task Group - Member
Columbia Armory Tai Chi Group Member, 6+ years
Missouri River Cultural Conservancy, Founding Board member, Treasurer
Past:
The Mankind Project St. Louis, Board member, Treasurer
Telecommunications Task Group Google Fiber for Communities Project Member
North Central Columbia Neighborhood Association, Board member - 17 years. PastPresident & Treasurer.
Columbia Board of Education Comprehensive School Improvement Plan Governance
Committee. Member. Fall 2009.
2009 Neighborhood Leadership Program. Participant.
Governance/Decision-Making Topic Group, Imagine Columbias Future Visioning Process.
Corner Action Committee (Field/North Central Columbia Community Resource Center
Board), member, past Project Coordinator
Citizens Chronic Nuisance Property Abatement Ordinance Planning Group, member
Columbia Housing Authority Housing Task Force
Mid-Missouri Transportation Alliance (formerly Boone County Coordinated Transportation
Services Planning Group), member, past member of Steering Committee
Citizens for Timely and Responsible Road Infrastructure Financing (TARRIF), Co-founder
Columbia and Boone County Neighborhood Alliance
Community Making a Difference (CMAD), member of conference planning team
Tech-4-U Community Technology Center project. Member of advisory group.
Street Standards Planning Group, Planning & Zoning Commission, City of Columbia.
Participant representing the Neighborhood Alliance perspective
Central Columbia Get Out The Vote Committee, Treasurer. Organized to work to increase
voter registration and turnout in the First Ward, City of Columbia
Foundation of the Daniel Boone Regional Library. Board member, 11 years; Treasurer, 8
years
Mid-Missourians for Universal/Single Payer Health Care, Board, 8 years
Bicycle/Pedestrian Commission, City of Columbia. Appointed November 1998. Chair,
Sidewalk, Crossings, and Crosswalks Committee. Co-organizer of Model Street Design
Standards Workshops, Summer 2002.
Boone County Smart Growth Coalition. Member since 2000.
Infrastructure Cost Committee of the Boone County Smart Growth Coalition, Convener.
2001-2002.
Metro 2020 Community Discussion Planning Group, member. A coalition of community
and civic organizations to increase informed participation in the discussion about the
proposed Metro 2020 Community Structure Plan.
Field School Site Council. Founding member; Co-Chair for two years. Facilitated preferred
futures/action planning process.

Columbia/Boone County Community Partnership (CBCCP) - elected member; 1st Steering

Committee, 1995. Elected Board member, 5/99-9/01. Served as Secretary/ Treasurer of
the Board, 7/00-9/01.
Missouri Alliance for Campaign Reform. Board member as representative of MidMissourians for Universal/Single Payer Health Care, 1997-2001. Full participant in the
reintegration process completed in 2001; member of the Transition Team.
Boone County Extension Council, appointed by Columbia City Council in 1997 and reappointed March 1, 1999. Term expired March 1, 2001.
Daniel Boone Regional Library Board of Trustees, 5 years
Missourians for Single Payer Health Care, Secretary/Treasurer, past-President, Board
Reorganization Subcommittee of the panel appointed by the Columbia Board of Education
to review and revise the Our Glimpse of Tomorrow planning document.
Mid-Missouri Institute for the Healing of Racism, 2 years
Columbia Public Schools District Multicultural Task Force, Community Member
Model Mugging of Mid-Missouri, Treasurer, Board
Columbia Community 2000 Team Leader. Chair, Grass Roots Participation Team
Mid-Missouri Coalition on Adolescent Concerns - 2 years.

Relevant experience/training (with some examples):

Strategic Planning/Community Planning
For North Central Columbia Neighborhood Association, with DMH, CPS Focus groups, Boone
County Long Range Planning Workshops, Field Site Council, Columbia & Boone County
Neighborhood Alliance, Bear Creek Residents Association, Ridgeway Neighborhood
Association, and many others.
Community Building
Community Asset Mapping as a Strategy for Building Communities from the Inside Out,
Train the Trainer Workshop, Oct. 6-7, 1995;
Creating Partnerships (Parent-Professional Partnership), August, 1995;
Parent & Community Workshop, January 1996;
Leaders as Coalition Builders: Practical Skills for Building Community, workshop presented
by the National Coalition Building Institute at the March, 1995 National League Cities
Leadership Training Institute
Community Development Academy, Course One: Building Communities from the
Grassroots, March 1998. Week long course.
Community Development Academy, Course Two: Empowering Communities for the Future,
October 1998. Week long course.
Caring Communities Leadership Training. February 1999
Community Policing and Group Problem Solving. Two-day training with Columbia Police
Department personnel presented by the Regional Community Policing Institute. June 1999
Community Leadership for Community Policing. One and half-day training presented by
the Regional Community Policing Institute. October 1999
Seeing Beyond the Symptoms. A two-day conference presented by ACT Missouri, March
2000.
You Get What You Measure, A Workshop on Measuring Progress Toward Goals. A oneday workshop presented by Yellow Wood Associates, October 2000
Caring Communities Leadership Training. May 2001. Workshop on Asset Based
Community Development.
LETS TALK, COLUMBIA! Annual Round Community-Wide Study Circles Dialogue On
Diversity, Race, and Community. February 11-12 2006
Prevention Strategies for Youth/Youth Development
Community Asset Building as a comprehensive prevention model (Partnering for Success, July
1995
Nonprofit management, organizational development, operations, fund-raising
Fiscal Management Training for Caring Communities Partnerships. October 2000.
Strategic Human Resource Management for Caring Communities Partnerships. November
2000.
Managing for Results: Follow-up Workshop on Strategic Financial Management and
Human Resource Management for Caring Communities Partnerships. January 2000.
Seminar on Representing Nonprofit Advocates. Two day training presented by the Alliance
for Justice in Washington, DC, March 2001.
Caring Communities Leadership Training. May 2001. Workshops on Expansion and
Sustainability and Organizational Change and Transformation.
Nonprofit Dilemmas: The Struggle Over Values, Capacity, and Identity. William K. Ryan.
May 2001.
Worked on course at UMKC, Organizing for Successful Fund Raising.

Participatory democracy
Engaging Citizens in Public Decision Making. National League of Cities Conference,
March 1995.
Public Campaign National Conference. St. Louis, MO December 1998.
Public Campaign Biennial National Conference. Restoring Democracy to the People:
Clean Money/Clean Elections. Washington, DC July 2001.
Study Circles Organizing Clinic. Kansas City, MO May 2002
Organizational dynamics/organizational development
AK Rice Organizational Systems Conference, UMC, Feb, 1994
Short course at UMC - Introduction to Total Quality Management/Continuous Quality
Improvement Management.
Mediation/Negotiation
Community Mediation Training, UMC Center for Dispute Resolution, September, 1995
Negotiation Institute, UMC Center for Dispute Resolution, March 2006. Two-day course.
Bicycle/Pedestrian
Walkable Communities, a one-day Street and Community Design Workshop for Columbia.
Presented by Dan Burden. December 1997
Affordable Housing
Innovations in Affordable Housing Construction. An interactive television workshop
presented by Dr. Avi Friedman, Dept of Architecture, Affordable Homes Program, McGill
University, Montreal, Canada. October 1998. (Local sponsor: UMC Human Environmental
Sciences Extension)
St. Louis Regional Fair Housing and Neighborhood Housing Conference. Presented by
HUD-St. Louis, HUD-Springfield, and the Regional St. Louis Fair Housing Collaborative.
April 1999.
ITV Update on Innovative Affordable Housing Development with Community Cooperation.
An interactive television workshop presented by Michael Pyatok, School of Architecture,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. November 1999. (Local sponsor: UMC Human
Environmental Sciences Extension)
Affordable Accessible House Public Forum. Organized by Services for Independent Living.
February 2003
Other
Basic Community Workshop in Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP). Facilitated by the
Mid-Missouri AVP Council of Columbia, MO. March 2003. Columbia, MO
Advanced Workshop in Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP). Facilitated by the MidMissouri AVP Council of Columbia, MO. May-12-14, 2003. Jefferson City Correctional
Center, Jefferson City MO.

Projects from the past 18 years:

Organized with others the Mid-Missouri Institute for the Healing of Racism. Held public
meetings in 1993 and 1994. Incorporated in 1994. With the support of the Columbia Human
Rights Commission, organized Healing Racism: Weekend One workshop in April 1995. The
workshop is experiential in nature. It is designed to promote personal healing through dialogue
about racial issues in a facilitated group. The work for the workshops is learning to listen, really
listen, to each other. One goal of MMIHR was to train local facilitators to present a repeating
series of 12-week Healing Racism workshops.

Organized with others Model Mugging of Mid-Missouri in 1995 to provide education and raise
awareness of issues of violence through self-defense training using the model mugging
approach.

Missourians for Single Payer Health Care (MoSP), Secretary/Treasurer, past-President, Board.
As President, I led MoSP in developing its vision and mission statements and annual action
plans and legislative lobbying activities.

Organized, secured funding, and presented 1997 and 1998 Health Care for All Conferences
for Missourians for Single Payer Health Care (MoSP)
Developed, with others, a UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE WORKSHOP to be used to
facilitate a conversation on universal health care in Missouri. This tool could be used to
build the movement for universal health care in Missouri that will support a successful
campaign to adopt a universal health care plan in Missouri.
Organized with others a partnership of legislators and advocates for universal health care in
which participants felt an equal ownership in and commitment to planning the steps in
working for universal health care in Missouri. Summer/Fall 1999.
Note: During my term of office, I provided the organizational administrative support for
MoSP, including development and maintenance of a statewide database that supported
MoSP activities. In addition, I did most of the administrative work, including preparation of
grant applications and fund-raising, for each of the above-mentioned activities.

Organized with others the 1993, 1997 and 1998 Neighborhood Alliance Conventions of the
Columbia and Boone County Neighborhood Alliance. The 1998 Convention consisted of two
sessions of a preferred futures planning process called Neighborhood Futures Action Planning.
This planning is the basis of the ongoing efforts of the Alliance. Role: principal organizer and
facilitator, 1998.

In 1999, organized with others the Central Columbia Get Out The Vote Committee. By
organizing three candidate forums and executing an energetic reminder to vote campaign, the
CC-GOTV increased voter turnout in the First Ward of Columbia by 80% over the last election
for First Ward Council-person in 1996. CC-GOTV continued to organize school board and First
Ward candidate forums in succeeding years.

Foundation of the Daniel Boone Regional Library. Board member, 11 years; Treasurer, 8 years.
During my term of office, I organized five Direct Mail Campaigns to over 7,000 residents of
Boone, Callaway, and Howard Counties to solicit support for the Regional Library system. I
helped lay the ground work for the eventual establishment of long-term development program
for the Foundation and the Library by supporting an audit and assessment of the Foundations
development capacity by a professional fund-raising consultant, creation of an Annual Direct
Mail Campaign, and acquisition of donor management software to support development
activities. As of 2007, the Foundation and the Library had chosen not to implement this
planning.

Organized with others the Metro 2020 Community Discussion Planning Group. This coalition of
community and civic organizations formed to increase informed participation in the discussion
about the proposed Metro 2020 Community Structure Plan Columbia/Boone County, Missouri.
The coalition held four community discussions, conducted a survey, and presented the results
to the Planning Zoning Commission and City Council. These efforts, and others, increased the
engagement of development stakeholders in the discussion. With the arrival of new Director of
Planning and Development, we expected development and adoption of a meaningful plan. The
City Council tired of discussion of the project, reduced the plan to a set of guidelines. No
action has been taken to implement any of those guidelines at this time.

Columbia/Boone County Community Partnership (CBCCP) - elected member; 1st Steering

Committee, 1995. Elected Board member, 5/99-9/01. Served as Secretary/ Treasurer of the
Board, 7/00-9/01. Intensive involvement in Community Partnership/ Caring Communities
system reform initiative at the Site Council, Partnership, and statewide level.

Designed, organized, and facilitated the Field Caring Communities Site Council planning
processes for FY99/00, FY00/01, and FY01/02 using preferred futures/action planning methods
to assure grass-roots development of shared visions and goals and accountable action
planning within the four system-reform policy initiatives set by the FIT (now FACT) Board.

In 2003, I developed the concept of large planning for presentation to the Joint City/County Planning
Committee, based on an extensive analysis of the Metro 2020 Plan. I made this concept a key
component of my platform when I rand for Mayor in 2004 and 2007. Zoning is not enough! We
need to plan, now! With the County Commission, jointly authorize the City and County P&Z
Commissions to organize and oversee growth management and sub-area land use planning for the
Metro Planning Area (about 210 square miles including Columbia) utilizing the citizen/stakeholder
involvement process that has been developed by the City P&Z Commission to assure broad based
participation. This effort will utilize the support of both P&Z staffs as well as outside consultants.
Each respective P&Z Commissions will submit the recommendations to its elected governing body
for their review, revision, and eventual adoption. These plans will provide the large-scale
perspective within which to evaluate specific annexation, zoning, and planning proposals. The
concept and the process have become the model that we are using today.

Served as an officer (President, Vice-President, and/or Treasurer) and Board of the North
Central Columbia Neighborhood Association for most of 15 years from 1993 to 2006 and 20092011. During that time, NCCNA maintained a sustained level of activities that have resulted in
substantial improvements in our neighborhood (one of the lowest income areas in Columbia).
NCCNA was repeatedly recognized for its community development activities in the Missouri
Community Betterment Awards Competition.

NCCNA published a quarterly newsletter, the North Central News, from 1998 to Summer
2006 to increase the visibility of the neighborhood to 1,200 -1,800 neighborhood residents,
businesses and institutions and others whose decisions might affect the North Central
Columbia Neighborhood area. I raised all the money to finance the newsletter and
developed and maintained the subscription list. Linda Rootes and I have shared the roles
of writing and soliciting articles, editing, and distribution for most of that time. From Fall
2002 to Spring 2006, I also handled layout of each issue.

From 1997 to 2007, NCCNA engaged in four major projects. In 1998 NCCNA applied for
$250,000 in CDBG funding to clean up the portion of the COLT railroad right-of-way that
runs through the North Central Neighborhood. To support the application, I organized

support from most of the abutting property owners, commercial and institutional. While the
City Manager took umbrage at NCCNAs request, the City Council allocated $15,000 for
preliminary engineering work for the Project. Construction on the project was completed in
2008.

Designed, and worked with the staff of the Columbia Parks and Recreation Department, to
organize a community planning process for a neighborhood park in the North Central
Columbia Neighborhood. In July 1999, the Columbia Parks and Recreation Commission
approved the NCCNA/CMCHDC proposal for the development of the park, including
retention and renovation of historic buildings on the property as a community resource
center. In February 2000, the City Council of Columbia approved the proposal. In
September 2000, the City Council approved an agreement for a long-term land lease and
for transfer of the building to Central Missouri Counties Human Development Corporation
(now Central Missouri Community Action) to be renovated and used as a community
resource center.

In partnership with Central Missouri Counties Human Development Corporation

(CMCHDC)(now Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA)), NCCNA sought to renovate
the building at 900-902 Range Line Street as a community resource center. As Project
Coordinator, I oversaw the creation of a community board for the center, guided the board
through the development of a building program statement for the building and the selection
of an architect, guided the Fund-raising Committee through the development of a fundraising strategy and plan, prepared grant applications that raised over $53,000, prepared an
NAP application for $103,660 in tax credits was approved July 11, 2003, shepherded a rezoning request through approval, and negotiated at long-term land-lease with the City of
Columbia.

In 2000, NCCNA received a matching grant of $15,000 from CDBG funding for the
preparation of a comprehensive neighborhood master plan for the built environment of the
North Central Columbia Neighborhood Association area. In March 2003, NCCNA received
a $5,000 grant from the Boone Electric Community Trust for part of the matching funds.
The Project Steering Committee completed selection of an urban/neighborhood planning
consultant in July 2003 and completed private fund-raising for the Project by the end of
August 2003. Community meetings were held in June, July, and November of 2004 and
February and July of 2005. NCCNA presented the final draft of its urban conservation
overlay district ordinance to the City Council in February 2007.

NCCNA had been organized and operated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization from its
incorporation in 1993. With two of its long-term projects coming underway in 2003, I led
NCCNA in revising its Articles of Incorporation and bylaws to make it eligible to be a
community economic development corporation and/or a community housing development
corporation. For similar reasons, in June 2003, on behalf of NCCNA, I prepared and
submitted a formal Application for Recognition of Exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code as a charitable and educational organization. On July 29, 2003, the
Internal Revenue Service determined that NCCNA was exempt from federal income tax as
an organization described in section 501(c)(3).

I provided most of the organizational administrative support for NCCNA from 1993 to 2006.
In addition, I did most of the administrative work, including preparation of requests for
proposals, grant applications and fund-raising, and contract and lease preparation and
negotiation for each of the above-mentioned projects.

During my terms as President, NCCNA worked on several rezoning projects to protect and
improve the quality of the build environment in and around NCCN: Kilgore Pharmacy rezoning on N. Providence Road, the 310 N. 10th rezoning, and adoption of corridor
development guidelines (hopefully eventually to be an enforceable corridor development
plan) for N. Providence Road. The success of the first and third of these efforts was based
on my collaborative work with NCCNA, Ridgeway Neighborhood Association, and the
Douglass Park Neighborhood Association.

Worked extensively with Columbia police to identify problems in the North Central Columbia
neighborhood, to train residents how to report suspicious activity, to establish Neighborhood
Watch programs, etc. Most monthly Board meetings included a presentation by police
officers and discussion of current and upcoming public safety issues.

This close collaboration led to my involvement with safety walks with the police in the
Smithton Valley, Ridgeway, and North Central Columbia neighborhoods. I also participated
in two trainings in community policing with the Columbia Police Department (CPD) -Community Policing and Group Problem Solving. Two-day training with Columbia Police
Department personnel presented by the Regional Community Policing Institute. June 1999
and Community Leadership for Community Policing. One and half-day training presented
by the Regional Community Policing Institute. October 1999.
In 2002, I participated in the workshop on developing a strategic plan for the CPD and, in
2003, I participated in developing the Columbia Oriented Policing Strategic Plan 2003.
Following discussions with the CPD Community Action Team, I worked with others to
develop a chronic nuisance property abatement ordinance for Columbia, Missouri to
regulate chronic criminal activity of various kinds that is adversely affecting the health,
safety, welfare and quality of life in neighborhoods where these chronic activities are
occurring. We based the proposed ordinance on a Portland, Oregon ordinance that had
been successfully developed an implemented over a ten-year period. A complete draft was
presented to the City Council in October 2001 for discussion with Council at a work session.
The group reviewed and rejected a staff revision. We presented a new draft to Councilman
Hutton in July 2003 and to the Council in December 2003. In December 2003, the City
Council agreed to a work session with the Planning Group on its proposed ordinance. The
Council never had the work session. In November 2006, the Council approved a chronic
nuisance property abatement ordinance substantially based on the staff revision of our
ordinance.

In 2001, convened the Infrastructure Cost Committee of the Boone County Smart Growth
Coalition. This committee studied and documented the costs of providing the public
infrastructure to maintain existing levels of service in periods of rapid population growth, how
such costs are being currently funded or not funded, and how other communities are funding
such costs. The facts documented by this committee continue to drive a reevaluation of a
number of growth-related policies in Columbia and Boone County.

In August/September 2001, I developed and presented several reapportionment scenarios to

the Columbia Ward Reapportionment Committee to create a more compact, contiguous, and
homogeneous First Ward to better represent the central city. The Committee presented my
scenario and one other, without priority for either, to the City Council for consideration. The
Committee also recommended that the Council appoint a committee to consider increasing the
number of wards in the city as urgent business.

In Winter 2004, I ran for Mayor of Columbia, Missouri. I received 25% of the vote (2,946 votes)
in first venture into electoral politics. I raised over $4,000 in small contributions from over 80
donors to finance the campaign. The then-current City Manager retired 13 months later and
Columbia is seeing more contested City Council elections since then.

In Spring/Summer 2004, worked with the Bear Creek Residents Association to develop a
shared vision of what the residents want Bear Creek Park to be like and to develop action plans
to realize their dreams.

In September/October 2004, worked with others to organize Columbians for Change, a voter
registration and get-out-the-vote effort for the Presidential election in 9 central-city precincts.

In 2004 ten years of effort culminated in the creation of the Boone County Coordinated
Transportation Services Working Group to improve the existing human transportation service
delivery system in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. I lobbied for years for creation of
such a Group based on three principles:
1. The lead organization had to have no direct stake in the system. The Boone County
Community Partnership agreed to be the lead organization.
2. The Group would need to tackle the entire human transportation delivery system to be
effective.
3. The Group would have to have very broad based community representation in all its
processes. The definition of a stakeholder had to be anyone who felt they had a stake in,
i.e. felt they were affected by the system.
By March 2005 the Group had organized, had defined itself and its initial purpose, had secured
$50,000 of 80% matching funds for a needs, resources and potentials study, had raised more
than the required 20% match, and had developed and issued an RFP for the kind of study that
we need. In June 2005, the Group selected LSC Transportation Consultants, Inc. to work with
the Group to do the study. In December 2006, the consultant presented its final report and the
Group renamed itself the Mid-Missouri Transportation Alliance.

In Winter 2007, I ran for Mayor of Columbia, Missouri. I again received 25% of the vote (over
3,300 votes) in my second venture into electoral politics.