Experience that counts
Milwaukie City Council
Before her appointment to the Metro Council, Collette was a member of the Milwaukie City Council, where she helped guide revitalization efforts, including Light Rail planning, downtown and Riverfront Park redevelopment and innovative funding for street maintenance. She led efforts to create a Milwaukie Area Arts Committee and to enable the city to sign the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.
Co-Chair Clackamas County Coordinating Committee
Collette represented Milwaukie on the Clackamas County Coordinating Committee (C4), and co-chaired the committee in 2007. At C4 she worked across jurisdictional boundaries to build county-wide cooperation on transportation and land-use priorities, while promoting economic, community and environmental sustainability.
Vice-chair Clackamas Community College
Board of EducationCollette also is vice-chair of the Clackamas Community College Board of Education. She represents that board on the County’s Blue Ribbon Health Care Committee. One of her first priorities when she joined the school board was to call for neighborhood involvement in the college's planning for its new Harmony Allied Health Care Campus. Visit http://www.harmonyvision.org/ for the exciting results of that collaborative effort.
Collette Communications
In 1999, Carlotta formed the consulting firm Collette Communications. The firm develops public information materials and involvement strategies for government agencies, consulting firms and non-profit organizations. Areas of focus include energy policy, energy efficiency, renewable resources, fish and wildlife recovery, transportation planning and neighborhood involvement.
Northwest Power Planning Council
For 14 years, Collette was a public information and involvement strategist with the four-state Northwest Power Planning Council (now called the Northwest Power and Conservation Council). The Power Council’s mandate is to protect Columbia River Basin fish and wildlife, while also providing adequate water for power generation, irrigation and navigation across an area roughly the size of France. Collette helped develop local strategies for Oregon, Montana, Washington and Idaho to adopt and implement energy efficient building codes, fish and wildlife protections, and renewable energy resource policies.
RAIN Magazine
From 1979 until 1983, she published RAIN Magazine. In its November 6, 2007 endorsement of Collette for the Metro appointment, the Oregonian called RAIN “a visionary journal that pioneered discussion of a wide range of issues now regarded as the key to sustainable economies.” Utne Reader called Rain: "a vital resource for the growing movements interested in ecology and appropriate technology. From energy politics to family farms to community renewal to everyday art, RAIN was known for the topics it covered and its strong commitment to a better, more sustainable future."
Center for Local Self Reliance
Before moving to Oregon in 1979, Collette was special projects coordinator at the Center for Local Self Reliance, a non-profit community-based organization she helped create. The center offered energy efficiency training and weatherization materials to low income families in Southeast Minneapolis.
Writer
Collette has written extensively on all these topics. Credits include a special “Oregon Salmon Plan” issue of High Country News, and reports on industrial energy conservation, renewable energy resources and efficiencies in high tech industries for the Northwest Power Planning Council and the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance. She authored a chapter on Oregon’s watershed planning efforts for the book: Across the Great Divide, Explorations in Collaborative Conservation and the American West (Island Press, 2001).
Collette lives in Milwaukie, Oregon, with her husband, David Mayfield, two dogs and two cats. She also is a published photographer and her gardens have been featured in numerous tours, including Metro's Gardens of Earthly Delight.
