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The
Lacey Fire District 3 operates under the legislative authority of three fire
commissioners, each elected to six-year overlapping terms. The Board of Fire
Commissioners is responsible for establishing key policy, setting levies,
developing and adopting the annual budget, reviewing and approving contracts,
and appointing a fire chief.
The
Board meets the first and third Thursdays of each month at 7 p.m. at Station
31. The meetings are open to the public. Any schedule changes will be posted on
the bulletin board at the front entry to the District administrative offices.
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 Skip Houser served on the Thurston County Fire District 3 Civil
Service Board prior to his election as a commissioner in 1985.
Skip is a graduate of Western
Washington University, and has a law degree from the University of Puget Sound
and a Masters in Public Administration from The Evergreen State College. He is
currently in private practice in Olympia as a principal with the firm of Valz,
Houser, Kovut & Barnes P.S.
In
addition to his service on the Board of Fire Commissioners, Skip has served as
an administrator with the Washington State Criminal Justice Training
Commission, the Department of Corrections and the Governor's Office of
Financial Management, and was the deputy director of the Department of Trade
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 K. Frank Kirkbride was appointed to
the Board of Fire Commissioners in 2000, and was elected to the position in
2001 and re-elected in 2003.
Frank
has been active in the Lacey community, serving on several local boards,
committees and task forces. He chairs the board of a subsidiary of
"Morningside," the community rehabilitation program, and served 18 years on the
Lacey Historical Commission. Commissioner Kirkbride is active in Lacey Rotary
and Lacey Rotary Foundation, and is a trustee of the Washington State
University Foundation.
Frank
graduated from Washington State University with a landscape architecture
degree. He worked with the Washington State Department of
Highways/Transportation for 10 years prior to starting his consulting firm.
Frank is president of The Kirkbride Group, Inc, a Lacey-based real estate
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 John Christiansen was first elected
to the Board of Fire Commissioners in November 2007.
John retired from the Department of Defense in 2003
after a total of 28 years of combined federal service. His last duty assignment
was as the assistant manager of the Fort Lewis Golf Course.
John proudly served as a combat
medic with the 1st Infantry Division and served in Vietnam in 1967-68. He is a
Tet Offensive Survivor and a life member of the VFW and The Society of the Big
Red One.
John comes from a
firefighter family. His father and two uncles were career Seattle firefighters,
and his son Alex is a Lacey Fire District lieutenant.
John has been a lifelong volunteer in youth sports, sports
officiating, scouting and fund raising. He has supported LFD programs, Fire
& Ice Basketball Game, the Community Service Committee, Fill the Boot and
Adopt-A-Family. John has been married for
36 years to Marion, a retired army nurse. His daughter Amy has been a volunteer
for the LFD and now lives with her husband in Germantown, Maryland. She is a
Web news editor for National Public Radio.
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