Our History
2009-2019
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Past Board Members:
David Anson - Environment Champion Award, April 2010, Served on Board 2010-2012, Trails initiative leader, Tree Board liaison
Ginny Babcock - 1st Term 1/2014-12/2015, Recognized as the "Most Important Person" in Botavia, IL 2010, Plastics Champion, Church Environmentalism, Environment Champion Award, April 2014
Melissa Bees - 1st Term 1/2013 - 12/2014, Green Choices Recycling Challenge leader, Environment Champion Award, April 2013, Clean Energy leader
Alice Boeckman - 1st Term 1/2014-12/2015, 2nd Term 1/2016-12/2017, 2013 Environment Pioneer by Fontenelle Forest, Volunteer Hours Keeper, Youth Champion, Trashion Show, Environment Champion Award, April 2014
Leonor Choi - 1st Term 1/2020 - 12/2021, Offutt Airforce Base
Dana Conaway - 1st Term 1/2010-12/2011, 2nd Term 1/2012 - 12/2013 Marketing/Communications, Keeping Bellevue Beautiful initiative leader, Offutt liaison, graduate Leadership Bellevue 2011, Environment Champion Award, April 2010
Acelyn Dil - 1st Term 7/2019-12/2019, 1/2020- 5/2020 - student representative, Papillion South, Farmers Market, Arrows to Aerospace parade
Kathryn Ewing - 1st Term 1/2012 - 12/2013, 2nd Term 1/2014-12/2015, founding member of Green Bellevue, Governance/Operations, Membership, Environment Champion Award, April 2011
Cynthia Hill - Recorder - 2012, 1st Term 1/2013 - 12/2014, 2nd Term 1/2015-12/2016, Environment Champion Award, April 2012, Green Choices Recycling Challenge leader, Earth Day Vendor Coordinator, Secretary - 2013-2016
Jennie Hovey - 1st Term 1/2014-12/2015, 2nd Term 1/2016-12/2017, Environment Champion Award, April 2013, Earth Day Trashion Show Coordinator
Seth Krone-Keith - Partial Term 1/2016-4/2016, partnering organization representative, Fontenelle Forest Nature Center, Environment Champion Award, April 2016
Jeanine Lackey - 1st Term 5/2016-12/2017, 2nd Term 1/2018-7/2018, Fontenelle Forest representative, Invasive Species initiative leader, Environment Champion Award, April 2017
Joanne Langabee - 1st Term 1/2012 - 12/2013, 2nd Term 1/2014-4/2015, Master Gardener, Environment Champion Award, April 2011, EarthKind initiative leader, 2013 Environment Pioneer by Fontenelle Forest
Terry Lee - 1st Term 1/2010-12/2011, 2nd Term 1/2012 - 12/2013, 3rd Term 1/2014-12/2015, Governance/Operations, BPS liaison, Environment Champion Award, April 2010, Volunteer Hours Keeper 2010-2014, Earth Day Logistics and Youth Events
Wendy Lee - 1st Term 2010, 2nd Term 1/2011-12/2012, Governance/Operations, Marketing/Communications, Membership, Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative leader, Environment Champion Award, April 2010
Sarah Lively - 1/2018-4/2019, Sarpy County Earth Day youth activities coordinator, owner of Unbound Soul yoga studio, Environment Champion Award, April 2017
Kim Luick- 1st Term 1/2015-12/2016, 2nd Term 1/2017-12/2018, business representative, Papillion Sanitation, Environment Champion Award, April 2015
Arcelia Marquez - 1st Term 1/2019-12/2020, student representative, Bellevue West, Earth Day, Walk for Water, Arrows to Aerospace parade, Environment Champion Award 2019
Julie McNally - 1st Term 2010-2012, 2nd Term 1/2018-11/2018, Governance/Operations, Trails initiative leader, Water Quality initiative leader. Environment Champion Award April 2010
Corrie Oberdin - 1/2018-12/2018, Marketing/Communications, Sarpy County Earth Day coordinator, owner of Oberdin Consulting, Environment Champion Award, April 2017
Andrea Ortiz - 1/2018-4/2019, grant writer, president of Zealous Farms, Metropolitan Community College student, studying sustainable agriculture, Environment Champion Award, 2018
Art Pawlak - 1st Term 1/2015-12/2016, 2nd Term 1/2017-12/2018, business representative, Firstar Recycling, Environment Champion Award, April 2015
Bridgett Petzoldt - 1st Term 1/2012 - 12/2013, Earth Day committee 2012, 5k/Earth Day Fundraising, graduate Leadership Sarpy, Environment Champion Award, April 2012
Epiphany Ramos - 1st Term 1/2016-12/2017, 2nd Term 1/2018-12/2019, City of Bellevue representative, Wastewater Operations Manager, Environment Champion Award, April 2015, Local Food Advocate, Organized Educational Speaker Series at SCED 2017, 2018, Responsible for the "It's In Your Hands" slogan for Bellevue recycling and for transforming our waste collection to the automated, lidded bins in 2018
Jeff Rippe - 1st Term 1/2016-12/2017, Bellevue Public Schools representative, Assistant Superintendent, Environment Champion Award, April 2013
Martha Ruff - 1st Term 1/2017-12/2018, 2nd Term 1/2019-6/2019, Bellevue Public Library Circulation Director, Environment Champion Award, April 2017
Gus Von Roenn - 1/2017-12/2018, Exec. Director of Omaha Permaculture, Mason Park permaculture project, Environment Champion Award, April 2017
Cheyenne Svenson - 1/2018-12/2019, student UNO, working on BA Environmental Sciences, intern at Fontenelle Forest, Sustain UNO volunteer, Environment Champion Award 2018, Organized Earth Day Scavenger Hunt 2019
Lisa Swanson - 1st Term 2010, 2nd Term 1/2011-12/2012, 3rd Term 1/2013-12/2014, Master Gardener, Marketing/Communications, Governance/Operations, National Wildlife and Dark Sky initiative leader, Tree Board liaison, Environment Champion Award, April 2010
Amy Torres - 1st Term 5/2014-12/14, Earth Day Volunteer Coordinator, Lighten the Load to the Landfill initiative member, Offutt Laiison, Environment Champion Award 2014
Alex Totman - 1st Term 1/2013 - 3/2014, Green Choices Recycling Challenge leader, Plastics initiative leader, Environment Champion Award 2013, April 2013, Films initiative leader, 2013 Environment Pioneer by Fontenelle Forest
Tonya Ward - 1st Term 1/2010-12/2011, 2nd Term 1/2012 - 12/2013 Green Building initiative leader, Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative leader, Environment Champion Award, April 2010
Lillian West - 1/2018-12/2018, student representative, Bellevue East, Environment Champion Award, April 2018
Della Lee Wilson, 1st Term 1/2012 - 12/2013, Water Quality initiative leader, advocate for Ogalla Aquifer, Regional Science Olympiad 1st Place winner Spring 2011, Environment Champion Award, April 2012
If you would like a copy of the board meeting minutes for 2019, please let us know.
Historical Board Meeting Minutes
Read a timeline of Green Bellevue's beginnings from April 2011 to September 2009:
Historical Annual Reports:
Recap Pictorials: