Janelle Cass is running for State Senate in the 21st Legislative District. She is an Air Force Academy graduate in civil and environmental engineering. She is a business owner, Ohana Hyperbarics, understands finances and won’t be writing legislation or supporting projects that needlessly spend your tax dollars.
Janelle can boast of many accomplishments, but one I find most impressive is when she worked on a project with the Federal Aviation Administration. As an environmental engineer for the FAA Las Vegas Metroplex Airspace Redesign Project, she experienced the challenges of bringing together the FAA and the National Parks Service to agree on how airplanes should fly over sensitive areas of the Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks. Initially, the organizations wanted entirely different outcomes. With diplomacy and perseverance Janelle was able to encourage FAA management, unions and the airlines to develop a collaborative relationship with a variety of organizations. These included the National Parks, tribal nations, primarily the Hualapal Tribe, state Historic Preservation Offices, the state Department of Ecology, the Department of Defense at Nellie AFB, elected officials, the public and others. This massive collaborative effort resulted in reducing an average of 100 flights per day over the Grand Canyon and eliminated fights over Zion National Park altogether.
This example demonstrates Janelle’s ability to bring a variety of organizations, and people with differing opinions and desired outcomes together, to problem solve so in the end a decision is reached that benefits and serves all constituents. You too will be impressed.
Theresa Campa Hutchison
Edmonds
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