Multnomah Co. Online Voters' Guide
November 2006 General Election

EAST MULTNOMAH SWCD - Director, Zone 3

DIANNA L. POPE

OCCUPATION: RN, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Danville Services of Oregon; Multnomah Education Services District.

OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Nursing in Portland at St. Vincent's and Emanuel Hospitals; Parry Center for Children; Portland Public Schools; OHSU and Multnomah Education Service District.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Emanuel Hospital School of Nursing; Oregon Health Sciences University Division of Continuing Education.

PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: 1984 to present: Director, East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District; 1989 to 1999, member, Oregon Soil and Water Commission.

For the past 22 years I have been privileged to serve as a Director on the East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District. During this time the District has worked with private individuals, groups of citizens, local, state and federal governments and agencies to identify and address natural resource conservation issues.

My work with the District for the past four years has emphasized expansion of our efforts to reduce water pollution in urban, suburban and rural areas. We have continued to work with local watershed councils such as the Johnson Creek, Columbia Slough and Sandy River Basin councils.

We were successful in obtaining voter approval of a modest tax rate in 2004 and have completed our first year of budgeting under this rate. We will continue to seek appropriate grants and other sources of funding for our programs.

I am dedicated to the principle that conservation districts are local people working together to achieve consensus on natural resource issues, ensuring that all viewpoints are considered. Soil and Water Conservation Districts and their nonpartisan volunteer directors are the “bridge” between citizens whose economic welfare depends on our natural resources and those whose interest is principally the protection of our environment. I will continue to work with everyone concerned for the conservation and careful use of our natural resources upon which all of our lives depend.

Thank you for your VOTE!

(This information furnished by Dianna L. Pope)