About Steve

• Founding Director, Calaveras Healthy Impact Product Solutions (CHIPS)
• Active member, Calaveras Grown
• Former co-chair, Preserve the Toyon Woodshop Committee
• Organizer, Calaveras Farm to School Project, bringing locally raised food to school cafeterias
• Member, Calaveras Farm Bureau, Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce, Upper Mokelumne Watershed Council
• Active in Glencoe - Rail Road Flat Recreation Association regional park project
• Sponsor and host, West Point Elementary School Farm Project and annual community Harvest Festival
• Former volunteer firefighter
• Former youth basketball and soccer coach
• California resident since 1963
• Worked way through 4 years at Antioch College, Ohio
• Native of Illinois

Service on Boards & Commissions

Calaveras County

• 2008 Chairman, Calaveras County Board of Supervisor
• Juvenile Justice Commission (2004-2007)
• Calaveras County Mental Health Commission
• Calaveras Healthy Impact Product Solutions (CHIPS)
• First Five Commission
• West Point Scholarship Association
• Calaveras Child Care Council
• Member, West Point Lions Club
• Member, Friends of West Point Fire District

Regional

• Mother Lode Job Training Agency
• Central Sierra Family Support Agency
• Upper Mokelumne Watershed Authority
• Calaveras/Amador Mokelumne River Authority
• Sierra Nevada Conservancy
• Calaveras-Mariposa Community Action Agency