Chris Fitz Comes to Work for LandWatch (03/26/01) Chris Fitz has changed hats. LandWatch Board Member and Secretary to the Board up until today, Chris Fitz has stepped down from his Board position in order to become a paid consultant to LandWatch. Chris will work half time on a variety of tasks involved with building membership, fund raising, and grassroots community building. We are delighted to have Chris carry on his work for LandWatch in this new capacity. While Chris is going to be working for LandWatch, he also will continue working in a half-time capacity for the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. During the next three months, he will help train and orient two individuals who have been hired to replace him there. As the Senior Officer for Development and Strategic Planning, Chris was in charge of all fund-raising activities, fiscal oversight, and a principal participant on the strategic planning and senior management team at CNS. During his 9-year tenure at CNS, the annual budget has grown from $700,000 to more than $6 million, and CNS has over 60 full-time employees and 75 graduate students in Monterey and branch offices in Washington, DC and Almaty, Kazakhstan. Chris is looking forward to focus more of his institution-building skills here at LandWatch Monterey County. In the spring of 2000, Chris moved to Salinas from Marina, where he helped found Marina 2020 Vision, a grassroots organization encouraging sensible growth and combating urban sprawl. Along with two other founding members, he created an active membership of 60 volunteers and organized a successful campaign to qualify and pass an "Urban Growth Boundary initiative" in the November 2000 election. In his current capacity at LandWatch, Chris is looking forward to the on-going fight to secure the Urban Growth Boundary for the citizens of Marina. He also looks forward to the prospect of being part of the effort to bring an Urban Growth Boundary in Salinas, his new hometown.
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