Board of Directors
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Dave Sanford
President
Retired Human Resources Executive with Lamb Weston. Active involvement with a number of local non-profits, as board member, volunteer, and fundraiser. Drives for Meals on Wheels in Benton City.
Start Date 10/2016
Wendy Krause
Vice-President
Wendy grew up in Richland and after two decades of working in geriatric care in Western WA, is happy to be back to our great community.
She has practiced restorative and palliative care as a medical massage therapist and has worked with countless families to assess health and financial needs for long-term care placement, with a special emphasis on the frail and dementia population.
Wendy now serves as the community outreach manager at the Tri-Cities Cancer Center, where she is our region’s interventionist for UW HealthLinks.
Start date 01/2018
Sharon Lute
Secretary-Treasurer
Sharon has been a licensed attorney for thirty years in CA, WA and D.C.; Government Contracting Officer for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, and vitrification technology; Deputy Program Manager for F-16 equipment and training program; Procurement Manager for Tomahawk and MD-11 engineering and manufacturing; government audit liaison for accounting systems and $2.1B program costs justification.
Start date 12/2017
Nancy Aldrich
Past President
City Special Projects Coordinator, Public Works. Local government experience, contracts and construction.
Start Date 12/2013
Gail Middleton
Member
Start date 09/2017
Horst Rogalsky
Member
Professional Mechanical Engineer licensed in Calif (retired)
Have lived and worked throughout the US/Europe and have traveled to China.
Career included field installation and certification of construction cranes. Nuclear plant design including component manufacturing and Construction (worked on Hanford #2).
Production manager for a steel fabricating facility.
Familiar with all areas of food plant operations, production, budgeting, HR, capital programs, project management and business development.
Drive for Meals on Wheels in Benton City
Start date 5/2020
Robert Garza
Member
Past work experience has been with hospital and university workforce development. He was the initial Executive Director for the Communities in Schools of Benton-Franklin.
He is an alumni of Washington State University, where he completed his BA and M.Ed
Robert grew up in eastern Washington and now lives in Pasco. He is bi-lingual, fluent in Spanish.
Start Date 4/2019
Vince Beasley
Member
Start Date 06/2018.