Positive relationships with political, business, educational and community leaders:

• As County Counsel of Imperial County, CA, I developed positive and highly interactive relationships with:
• County of Imperial:
• The Board of Supervisors of Imperial County
• Th Planning Commission
• Department heads and staff
• Twenty-eight school districts:
• Boards of Trustees
• Superintendents and Presidents and staff
• Imperial County Farm Bureau
• City Officials:
• El Centro
• Imperial
• Brawley
• Holtville
• Calexico
• State representatives and staff:
• Assemblymembers
• Senators
• As a Deputy County Counsel, San Diego County, I provided legal services on behalf of the Office of County Counsel to internal clients assigned to me:
• Road Commissioner (later, Director of Department of Public Works)
• Public Health
• San Diego Unified School Districts
• Oceanside Union School Districts
• Several other school districts
• Occasionally, several other departments
• While in private law practice, I provided advisory services, including:
• Member San Diego County Department of Parks and Recreation, Trails Committee
• Member Otay Regional Park Citizens Advisory Committee
• San Diego County Trails Coordinator
• Board of Supervisors on the San Diego County Regional Trails Plan
• City-County panel on restoration of a historical ranch
• I have pending as a citizen of Belgrade and Gallatin County, Montana, these proposals:
• Belgrade Community Library: Belgrade Community Schooling Project
• Habitat for Humanity: Habitat Clusters: A Proposal for Affordable Living using Clustering of Clusters for Gallatin County, Montana
• State of Montana:
• Submitted to the Governor of the State of Montana, a series of quality educational initiatives for the State of Montana, starting with the Montana Laptop Project and followed by 36 other suggestions to improve the quality of K-12 education in Montana's public schools.
• Submitted to Robert Opper, Director of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality suggestions on “one-stop permitting” for production of biodiesel and a suggestion for the proper disposal of co-products of the Diesel's production process.
• Montana State University:
• Suggestions to the Provost to establish a WikiWebSite for faculty and scholars of MSU for publication and collaboration purposes.
• Proposal to the Department of Agriculture to establish a Bachelors of Science degree and curriculum for Biodynamic Agriculture (organic farming).

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• Business development including research and project support:

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• Urban centric:
• Sales of waste oil fueled heaters, boilers and air conditioners.
• Sales and installation of waste oil fueled radiant heating systems and cooling systems.
• Create a business round table (monthly meeting supplemented by an online forum) to study and report on economic trends and opportunities.
• Contractors' Service Center:
• Plan room
• Computer facilities
• Reproduction facilities
• Conference rooms
• Technical assistance
• Online catalogs and price sheets (auto-updated)
• Legal services:
• Litigation
• Transactional
• Dispute resolution services:
• Mediation services
• Arbitration services
• Information Technology services:
• Network engineering
• Customer Resource management
• Business enterprise and resource management
• Educational Services:
• Home schooling
• Charter schools
• Private and public education and consulting services:
• Online courses and degrees
• Mentoring
• Laptop technologies
• Administrative and staff training and support
• Educational leadership
• Student counseling
• Behavior modification
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• Rural centric:
• As a candidate for the degree of Bachelors of Science in Agricultural Operations Technology, my papers included:
• Legislative Control and Funding of a Quality Education in Montana
• The Montana Laptop Project
• Selection of Cultivars of Hazelnuts suitable for cropping in Montana
• Experiment to grow mycelium of the French black truffle
• Field experiments to grow asparagus and hazelnuts suitable for Montana's climate and soils.
• A soil study and business plan for Home Grown Organic's proposed location in Plains (aka Wild Horse Plains), Montana.
• As a citizen, the proposed Habitat Clusters would develop an number of entrepreneurial businesses (startups) including:
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• Agriculture and husbandry:
• Pastured poultry: eggs and meat.
• Cattle: dairy and meat.
• Pork: Hogs, pigs and swine
• Aquaculture: fish, shrimp, crawdads, worms, water plants.
• Hydroponics: Algae for food and oil for biodiesel.
• Fodder: Hay and grass for winter feed.
• Compost turners and generators
• Microbial inoculates for composting.
• Earth worms and dung beatles
• Nuts: hazel, chestnuts, hickory, pecan, walnut, almonds.
• Berries: Indian Ice Cream Berries, blackberries, blue berries, others.
• Vegetables: To be selected by Community Supported Agricultural Club.
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• Electricity:
• Vertical axis wind generator and solar generator.
• Hydro-electric system
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• Biodiesel:
• Low volume: 40 gal. Reactor
• Intermediate volume: 500 gallon reactor.
• High volume: D1 Oil refinery.
• Algal production of lipids.
• Collection of waste oils
• Mobile refinery
• Manufacture of small farm refineries.
• Establishment of a biodiesel testing laboratory.
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• Light manufacturing:
• Waste oil fueled heaters and boilers.
• Vertical axis wind generators and hydro-electric systems.
• Small farm biodiesel refineries and testing kits
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• Services:
• Information Technology Services
• Legal services
• Economic Development
• Biodynamic agriculture
• Educational consulting
• Soil testing: biological and chemical
• Biodiesel testing

• Videography: Event, wedding, funeral, streaming Web.
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• Business development:

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• Legal aspects of business development:
• As a Staff Attorney for Rohr Industries, participated in the $25 million dollar acquisition by Rohr of Flexible Bus Company, Loudenville, OH; and did the due diligence audit in preparation for Rohr's purchase of San Diego Prestressed Concrete Company.
• As Staff Attorney for Rohr Industries, prepared a contract for the acquisition of high value technology, including a license for the French air-cushioned, tracked vehicle, and a holographic analyzer, among others.
• As a Staff Attorney for Rohr Industries, prepared drafts of proxy statements for shareholder meetings. Worked with Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher (L.A office outside securities counsel) on securities issues.
• Represented and provided legal services to clients in numerous real estate and business transactions involving the purchase and sale of real estate and businesses.
• As a California securities attorney, prepared documents and performed due diligence for:
• Receivables Management Incorporated ($600,000 issue)
• Ivy Tower Limited Partnership ($380,000 in and $500,000 out)
• Numerous private corporate offerings.
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• Developed and/or ran these businesses:
• DataText Word Processing (Navy and contract work) – startup and expansion
• Sevencrest apartments
• Ivy Tower office building – office rentals
• Design of Anchor office building
• Executive office suites:
• Claremont Mesa Blvd., San Diego
• Ivy Towner, Hillcrest, S.D.
• Real estate brokerage firm
• Holidays on Horseback (guided trail rides) and Miller Ranch (horse boarding)
• Horton Hill Planned Unit Development
• Board member and attorney for PlasTech Engineering, Inc. (made the air condition ducts for the BART rail cars)- business expansion.
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• Prepared business plans:
• Montana Synergy, LLP (Algae for food and fuel)
• Home Grown Organics, LLP (Organic nuts, berries, truck garden)
• Econo Energy, LLP (waste oil fueled heaters, boilers and chiller)
• Alpine Hydronics, LLP (radiant heating)
• Home Grown Organics, LLP (organic farming)
• Farmstead Foods, LLP (retail market)
• Cyber Gardens, LLP (community supported agriculture)
• Beaver Creek Cheese, LLP
• Green Oxy Fuels, LLP (biodiesel production)
• Holidays on Horseback (guided rides, horse boarding)
• El Campito, Inc. (family farm and horse breeding)
• DataText Word Processing (computer-based text entry service)
• Anchor Office Building
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• Involvement of community leaders:
• Organized and was President of San Diego County Trails Council for 17 years. SDCTC was an umbrella organization of numerous recreational riding and hiking clubs in San Diego County and was the leading advocate and trail builder of recreational trail in the county during the later 70's and 80's.
• Attorney for Sweetwater Valley Civic Association in its effort to preserve the valley for residential and low-impact use.
• Involved city, county and local business leaders in effort to create a local trail network for the Sweetwater Valley.
• Supported Bonitafest as an exhibitor.
• As Assistant Editor of the Bonita Post; worked with local business and non-profit organizations on a variety of projects; wrote feature stories.
• Member of a business promotion club (LEADS)
• Assisted Alpine Sun, Alpine, CA, (owned by daughter and husband) in functioning of business.
• Appointed Grant Writer for the Alpine Community Association; wrote grant applications.
• Formed non-profit corporation to operate a history museum in Descanso, CA.
• Member Kiwanis Clubs:
• Bonita/Chula Vista
• Downtown San Diego
• Alpine
• Represent the Chamber before government bodies and clubs and organizations. Prepare and give my own presentations, including use of visual media (Power Point and streaming video).
• Prepare reports of economic activity and initiates for the Board of the Chamber and other stakeholders.
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• Strategic leadership:
• Create an Economic Garden initiatives (clone of Littleton, CO's 15 year old initiative).
• Create a Buy Local initiative

• Expand the services by the Small Business Development Center (Business education and resources: online and meetings)
• Create a Community Schooling Program
• Create Virtual Reality classroom (online demo, ala Second Life)
• Create collaboration space (use or embody the concept of Google Documents and Spreadsheets)
• Develop a micro-loan program for micro businesses (startup and expansion)
• Work toward expanding a community-wide Wi-Max, high speed broadband network (public/private partnership)
• Work toward developing an urban version of Habitat Clustering project
• Expand website to include a collaborative space for promotion of new business and attraction of capital resources in support of new businesses and expansion of existing businesses.
• Create a clone of Coast Angels and and other venture capital firms.
• Promote technology transfers from universities, think tanks and private research firms.
• Promote the creation of a “Tech Ranch” as an incubator for high tech businesses.
• Work with real estate brokers to broaden access to MLS to further develop an inventory residential, commercial, industrial and research and development space.
• Work toward creating an IT Hotel (space and IT hardware and software for rent in a multi-story building housing office and R&D labs)
• Attend meetings of city and county governance and planning groups (report to and report on items which impact economic development)
• Encourage development of or expansion of a job services center for employers and prospective employees. Add career counselors who can represent individual clients and advocate their employment (all while working with local recruiters).
• Create self-reporting, Web based system to provide metrics on job and business activity growth
• Improve or add an economic development outreach column to weekly online newsletter with navigation aids embedded in the navigation sections of the website.
• Improve the website for visitors, prospective employers and prospective employees with hyperlinks to important resources which will interest such users.
• Present via the website, Case Studies of how businesses in Overland Park have succeeded in achieving their goals with help from the community, especially the Chamber of Commerce.
• Create a series of awards and recognitions for “Job Well Done” to community leaders in the area of economic gardening.
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• Bachelors of Science in Agricultural Operations Technology
• My papers included:
• Legislative Control and Funding of a Quality Education in Montana
• The Montana Laptop Project
• Selection of Cultivars of Hazelnuts suitable for cropping in Montana
• Experiment to grow mycelium of the French black truffle
• Field experiments to grow asparagus and hazelnuts suitable for Montana's climate and soils.
• A soil study and business plan for Home Grown Organic's proposed location in Plains (aka Wild Horse Plains), Montana.
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• As a citizen, the proposed Habitat Clusters would develop an number of entrepreneurial businesses (startups) including:
• Agriculture and husbandry:
• Pastured poultry: eggs and meat.
• Cattle: dairy and meat.
• Pork: Hogs, pigs and swine
• Aquaculture: fish, shrimp, crawdads, worms, water plants.
• Hydroponics: Algae for food and oil for biodiesel.
• Fodder: Hay and grass for winter feed.
• Compost turners and generators
• Microbial inoculates for composting.
• Earth worms and dung beatles
• Nuts: hazel, chestnuts, hickory, pecan, walnut, almonds.
• Berries: Indian Ice Cream Berries, blackberries, blue berries, others.
• Vegetables: To be selected by Community Supported Agricultural Club.
• Electricity:
• Vertical axis wind generator and solar generator.
• Hydro-electric system
• Biodiesel:
• Low volume: 40 gal. Reactor
• Intermediate volume: 500 gallon reactor.
• High volume: D1 Oil refinery.
• Algal production of lipids.
• Collection of waste oils
• Mobile refinery
• Manufacture of small farm refineries.
• Establishment of a biodiesel testing laboratory.
• Light manufacturing:
• Waste oil fueled heaters and boilers.
• Vertical axis wind generators and hydro-electric systems.
• Small farm biodiesel refineries and testing kits
• Services:
• Information Technology Services (Chick Bruce)
• Legal services (Jim Miller after he joints Montana Bar)
• Economic Development (Jim Miller)
• Biodynamic agriculture (Jim Miller)
• Educational consulting (Montana Virtual Educational Consultancy (Jim Miller and Chick Bruce)
• Soil testing: biological and chemical
• Biodiesel testing
• Videography: Event, wedding, funeral, streaming Web.

• Advocacy:
• As President of San Diego County Trails Council, advocated creation of county-wide master trail plan. Drafted initial draft and provided maps for location of proposed trail corridors (600 miles total, of which 330 were adopted).
• Advocated local trails in conjunction with the Sweetwater Valley Civic Association, Bonita Valley Horsemen, the County's Sweetwater Valley Planning Committee, City of Chula Vista, and the County Trail Coordinator.
• In cooperation with stakeholders, designed a recreational trail in the center of Bonita Valley, of which 3.2 miles are the most intensely used pedestrian paths in the County of San Diego. Built about 9 miles of the above trails either personally or with members of Bonita Valley Horsemen.
• Appeared many times as an attorney representing clients before local legislative and administrative bodies.
• As an attorney, represented clients in litigation.
• Filed a petition with the U.S. EPA to modify restrictions on the use of waste oil fuel heaters and boilers.
• Working with the Imperial County Farm Bureau, represented the County of Imperial's initiative to replace ad velorem business taxes on cattle on feed with unit/day levy. Prepared initial draft and testified before California legislative committee on proposal which was enacted.
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• Education and experience:
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• Education:
• Graduate: School of Law, Stanford University, J. D. 1959.
• Undergraduate:
• Stanford University, Tri-major: Economics, political science and history, A.B. 1957.
• Montana State University, Agricultural Operations Technology, B.S. 2006.
• Trade courses:
• Machinery and welding, Santana H.S., Santee, CA
• Diesel engine repair: Valhalla H.S., El Cajon, CA
• Small engine repair: El Capitan H.S. Lakeside, CA
• Contractors license: Helix H.S., La Mesa, CA
• Agricultural welding: Imperial Valley College
• Desktop publishing: Grossmont College
• Business information systems: Southwest College
• UNIX operation system: Palomar College
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• Prepare budgets:
• Expert level in use of MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook; Expert level in us of ACT! and Open Office Suite.
• Prepared budgets for Office of County Counsel, Imperial County.
• Prepared forecasts of business operations in connection with business plans.
• Installed and operated accounting software: Quick books, Excel, One-write Plus, SBT and others.
• Prepared budgets for several construction projects and construction loans.
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• Fund raising:
• Raised funds for operation of San Diego County Trails Council:
• Membership of individuals and riding and hiking clubs
• Events such as poker rides and BBQ's.
• As a member of Kiwanis clubs, involved in fund raising events
• Wrote grant applications:
• Sweetwater Reservoir trail ($41,000)
• Reconstruction of S.D. Portion of California Riding and Hiking trail ($121,000)
• Appointed Grant Writer for Alpine Community Association.
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• Capital:
• PlasTech Engineering
• Receivables Management Incorporated
• Construction and permanent loans on several real estate projects
• Bellfree Contractors, construction of recreational project for Olivenhain Municipal Water District.
• Sevencrest apartments
• Five office leasehold improvement build-outs and remodels.
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• Skills:

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• Legal:
• Business, commercial, real estate, construction, lending, and intellectual property law
• Transactional law, due diligence and litigation, including three California Supreme Court cases
• Practiced as a government attorney, nine years; corporate attorney, two years; civil law practice 32 years
• Practiced creditor rights
• Knowledgeable of Bankruptcy Laws and procedures.
• Familiar with legal issues regarding accounting, bonding, risk management, insurance and bonding.
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• Financial:
• Knowledgeable in use of Quick Books, Excel, One-write plus, SBT and other accounting software programs.
• Took accounting courses while at Stanford.
• Familiar with Generally Accepted Accounting Practices and double entry bookkeeping guidelines.
• Expert level in preparing financial projects associated with business plans.
• Well read on business planning
• Use Kaufman Foundation business planner.
• Expert use of Excel for budgeting.
• Familiar with many types of financial instruments and agreements (loans, continuing guarantees, financing statements, surety agreements, escrow and impounds).
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• Computer skills:
• Operating systems: MS XP Pro (and predecessors);
• MS Office Suite; Open Office Suite; ACT! (CRM); askSAM (database);
• Hardware: peer-to-peer networking; Journeyman level on most hardware issues.
• Software: most business applications, including webmaster software: Hotmetal Pro.
• Subscribe to InfoWorld, Event DV and other computer magazines.
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• Communication skills:
• Several academic research papers (5 A's and 2 B's)
• Expert legal author
• Author of many articles on a wide variety of subjects
• Extemporaneous speaking skills
• Trial attorney, including many jury trials
• Appellate attorney
• Good listener who takes notes
• Communicate with public officials and community leaders:
• Governor Schweitzer on Quality Education
• Governor Schweitzer on sequestration of carbon
• Montana DEQ on one-stop permitting
• Senators Tester and Caucus on “How to Win the Peace in Iraq”.
• Habitat for Humanity: Creating Affordable Living in Gallatin County
• Belgrade Community Library Board: Belgrade Community Schooling Project
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• Collaboration and interpersonal relationship skills:
• Excellent collaboration skills: created several academic collaboration groups
• Collaboration with several equestrian clubs in the creation of the San Diego County Regional Trails Plan and execution of trail construction projects
• Collaborated with County Parks and Recreation staff in the design of Sweetwater Regional Park including commercial kitchen.
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• High level of appreciation for economic development, job growth, high quality and sophisticated residential community:
• Advancement of the “Economic Gardening” approach to business growth and job growth (in numbers as well as in compensation and profit rate
• Adoption of the “Community Schooling Collaborative” approach to broad-based, low cost education, especially in areas untouched or not well developed by local schools.
• Proposal to the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity of Gallatin Valley for the “Habitat Clusters” to provide both affordable housing and affordable living in Gallatin County.
• My efforts in San Diego County in developing local and regional trails paid-off in that 3.1 miles of the Sweetwater Valley trails system is the most heavily used pedestrian path in the County of San Diego. The objecting of networking local communities by trails got folks out of the cars and into the open air for good recreation and interaction.
• Political skills were developed from the time I ran for and was elected Class President of the Santa Ana Senior High School Senior Class in 1952. I have worked in campaigns for political parties and on behalf of ballot propositions.
• While County Counsel of Imperial County, I personally headed the effort to get bond issues passed involving a swimming pool, air condition and athletic field improvements for Central Union High School, El Centro. I produced a video show of the use of swimming pools in Calexico, Holtville, Brawley and Patriarchal. I wrote the script and did the narration. This 33 minute clip ran intermittently for two weeks before the election on the local TV station. It showed how much the kids and parents appreciate their pools in the other towns and how important it was to replace the 82 year old public pool in El Centro which was leaking water to under the freeway.
• One of my recent courses at MSU was “Social Psychology” from which I gain considerable insight of how groups are formed and work (and some don't work). I have researched and written papers on “bonding and bridging” in our society and a comprehensive list of elements which constitute “social glue”.
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• High integrity, commitment to quality, sense of mission, and solid work ethic:

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• Clean record:
• My record with the California State Bar and the State agencies from which I gain a license, is spotless.
• Secret security clearances: I have had three separate secret security clearances:
• While a Staff Attorney at Rohr Industries
• As DataText Word Processing on two different occasions involving contract word processing work for the Navy.
• I uphold the highest level ethics and have research business ethics and personal ethics.
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• Problem solver, Task oriented, risk management:
• I am basically a problem solver and am task oriented. I like to finish what I start, on time and under budget. While I am not unwilling to take risks, I always research and evaluate the risk. I stay sensitive to “how am I doing” and will make course corrections when and where needed.
• I have on some occasions, brought a project to a halt when reason and relevant evidence so indicated.
• I am very self-directed, but will check with the other stakeholders of a project to make sure we are all on board the bus.

While I enjoyed my law practice, I have closed that chapter and no longer wish to engage in the practice of law (“been there, done that”). I will, however, put my legal skills to good use (research, due diligence, vetting the case, draftsmanship, looking for traps for the unwary, and assembly of ideas). My particular skill is in relational thinking and having the ability to visualize the end result as part of the planning process. If employed, I would expect to be in the job at least ten years, hopefully longer. I plan to stay the course of creating profitable businesses and a sustainable quality of life for our residents.

My passion is to do all in my power and ability to create jobs and profits which greatly exceed the norms for most cities and counties. Well paid employees and profitable businesses promote the public good. As the quality of life improves, so does the resolve of the community members to maintain a safe, salutary and productive community. We have all witnessed what happens when a community has chronic low wages, unemployment and workforces who are under-employed and under paid. The result for these latter communities, is increased crime, homelessness, welfare costs and decreased quality of life for wage earners. Folks who can, escape the neighborhood, leaving buildings vacant and vandalized. In many average communities today, a family of four needs to work 2.5 jobs just to break even. Compare this to life in the 50's and 60's when the income from one parent was sufficient to raise a family in a decent manner. One must never rest on his or her laurels. The economies of the nation, states and communities are moving targets.