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BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
AGENDA STATEM ENT
Item No. 2.
For Meeting of: December 16, 2019
ITEM TITLE: Mastering Council Meetings with Ann Macfarlane
SUBMITTED BY: Alex Meyerhoff, Interim City Manager
SUMMARY EXPLANATION:
Ann McFarlane, an accomplished trainer and author of Mastering Council Meetings: A Guidebook
for Elected Officials and Local Governments, will lead the City Council through a session aimed
at providing tools necessary to conduct productive and successful meetings.
Ann is a Professional Registered Parliamentarian (National Association of Parliamentarians) and
a Certified Association Executive (American Society of Association Executives). She is a regular
presenter at conferences and training sessions for organizations like the Association of
Washington Cities, the Washington Association of Counties, numerous city councils, non-profit
boards, special purpose district governing bodies, etc. Ann's unique training approach, vast
knowledge of strategies needed to conduct successful meetings, and broad experience with
groups from a wide variety of sectors has made her a highly sought after consultant throughout
the U.S. and beyond.
In the early 2000s, Ann partnered with Andrew Estep to found Jurassic Parliament, a Seattle-
based consulting firm focused on helping governing bodies conduct business as efficiently and
effectively as possible. Before establishing Jurassic Parliament, Ann majored in Russian and
ancient Greek at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received a Marshall Scholarship,
awarded by the British Government, and earned a second degree at Cambridge University in
England. She then served for many years in the U.S. Foreign service in Pakistan and on the
Bangladesh and Soviet desks of the U.S. State Department. After marrying fellow Foreign
Service Officer Lew Macfarlane, Ann became a stay-at-home mom and served as a translator in
the Congo, Tanzania and Nepal. She was the first woman to serve as a staff assistant in the Near
East South Asia Bureau.
On returning to Seattle, Ann became a Russian translator and was elected President of the
American Translators Association and the executive director of the National Association of
Judiciary Interpreters and Translators.
ITEM BUDGETED:
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APPROVED FOR SUBMITTAL BY THE CITY MANAGER
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