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Press release submitted by Lynn Williams
City Commission Candidate Group 1
“I grew up in a small town north of Chicago where I learned, at the age of five, that snow was not fun in spite of my four sisters assertions, that winter was the best of seasons. I served an apprenticeship for tool and die making while attending the University of Chicago from which I graduated in 1962. I married the following year which lead to four children and now, five grandchildren.
Along the way to Fernandina, I was a partner in building racing sailboats in Europe, spent a number of years as a consultant in manufacturing engineering, and I became the senior manager of a large special machine tool builder with operations in the U.S. and Germany. As something of a sideline I was the owner of a small (18 man) machine shop. My work was always fun, always challenging. I learned how things were made throughout the world; we studied, proposed, engineered and built machinery that improved the prior process. While building complex, multi million dollar machines that help make large airplane wings is hardly the same as solving civic problems in Fernandina, the process by which one develops a solution to any problems is somewhat the same. This, combined with attending, and often taking part in, almost every city commission meeting for the past six years gives me confidence that I know, and can be helpful in the work of our city commission now, and in the years ahead.
While the work of our city commission has been, and is, a main interest, I currently serve on the City’s Board of Adjustment, as well as Commissioner to the Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND) representing Nassau County. FIND is the group that leads maintenance on the Intracoastal Waterway. Some years earlier I served as Chair of the city’s Florida Waterfront Partnership Group. Our waterfronts, ocean, river and waterway, are a paticular and continuing interest.
I hope you will vote for me on November 5th to become our next City Commissioner.
November 2, 2013 1:01 p.m.