Candidates Forum Tonight For Town of Chevy Chase
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Town of Chevy Chase residents are scheduled to vote Tuesday to fill two seats on the Town Council. Four candidates are running. The top two vote-getters will be elected to two-year terms.
The candidates have agreed to participate in a public forum at 7:15 tonight at town hall. Charles Duffy, host of the Montgomery Municipal Cable program "Political Pulse," will moderate the forum.
Election Information
Voting will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Town of Chevy Chase town hall, 4301 Willow Lane. For information, call 301-654-7144. Election results will be posted Wednesday at http:/
Candidates
-- Linna Barnes is the only incumbent running. She is a non-practicing lawyer and has served on the council for six years, including a stint as mayor and currently as town treasurer and Construction Committee chairman. She has been an advocate for houses that fit the scale of the neighborhood and for keeping the Capital Crescent Trail as a park. Barnes produces a program on Access Montgomery Cable Channel 21 and works with the League of Women Voters, the Committee for Montgomery, the Commission on Children and Youth and Interfaith Works.
-- Patricia Burda, who operates a part-time interior design consulting business, chairs the Long-Range Planning Committee. Burda is an advocate for a Purple Line alternative. Her prior work in the museum field included more than 10 years with a consulting firm specializing in strategic planning. Burda has also volunteered over the years with her children's schools and regional arts organizations.
-- Deborah A. Vollmer, a semi-retired lawyer, works on issues concerning peace and social justice. She has testified at hearings in support of preserving the Georgetown Branch of the Capital Crescent Trail and in opposition to putting a light-rail line along the trail. Vollmer is a board member of the Greater Bethesda-Chevy Chase Coalition and has worked as an attorney for the United Farm Workers of America and the AFL-CIO and at a legal aid office in Bakersfield, Calif. Following that work, she was a sole practitioner, primarily as court-appointed counsel in criminal cases.
-- David B. Eason, a senior project manager for Martone Construction, serves as a representative on the Police Advisory Board for the Bethesda Station of the Montgomery County Police Department and an ad hoc member of the Public Services Committee. He is a proponent of "small-town" government and supports handling basic town services in a more timely, cost-effective way. Eason is also a liaison coordinator for the Washington chapter of the American Field Service high school exchange program and has served as president of the Purchasing Management Association of Washington, D.C. He was also a vice president of the Edgemoor Club.
-- LISA M. BOLTON
