The NSCEDC is governed by a Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is responsible for establishing program policy, approving the annual budget, and determining, facilitating, and promoting the goals of the NSCEDC.
The current Board of Directors (as of April 1, 2008) are:
email: paul@growsantiam.org
email: tim@growsantiam.org
email: mike@growsantiam.org
email: sandra@growsantiam.org
In addition, the NSCEDC has a Project Manager:
email: mmohr@growsantiam.org
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Josh Weathers is the vice chairperson for the North Santiam Canyon Economic Development Corporation and a steering committee member for the Canyon's Enterprise Facilitation project. In his professional life, Weathers works a recreation manager for the federal government, overseeing three federal parks in the North Santiam Canyon region. He is a graduate of the Ford Institute for Community Building’s leadership development class, and continues to use those specific skills in the “Mill City-Gates Group 2” volunteer organization. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources with a specialty emphasis in Forest Management from Oregon State University. Prior to that, Weathers earned his Associate's Degree in Forest Management at Chemeketa Community College. He currently resides with his wife and two children in Mill City, Ore. Weathers believes that the enterprise facilitation program will help people with entrepreneurial vision achieve their goals and, in turn, help those small businesses achieve great success.
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Sandra Rupert is a board member of the North Santiam Canyon Economic Development Corporation and serves on the Enterprise Facilitation steering committee. In her professional life, Rupert is a contractor for the United States Postal Service, operating the branch in Gates. Previously, she worked for the local Santiam Canyon School District. She is a devoted community volunteer, holding roles in the Gates Neighborhood Watch Association, the Mill City-Gates American Legion Auxiliary, Santiam Canyon Youth and Families Alliance, and the North Santiam Library District. Rupert graduated from Holloway High in a rural farming community in Minnesota. She and her husband of 41 years, Richard Duff, moved to Gates more than 30 years ago with their two sons. She is a proud mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Rupert believes that a strong point of an enterprise facilitation program is that it will enable Canyon residents to live and work closer to the place that they call home.
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Mia Mohr is the project manager for the North Santiam Canyon Economic Development Corporation and has been on staff with the organization since 1996. She brings a wide range of expertise including grant writing and administration. In 2001, she was honored to receive the Professional Service Award from the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments for her role in facilitating intergovernmental cooperation. Mohr also represents economic interests in the federally charted Opal Creek Advisory Council.
Mohr graduated with honors, earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of Puget Sound in foreign languages and international affairs. She resides on the Little North Fork with her husband, Greg, and their daughter, Anja. Mohr feels strongly that an enterprise facilitation program is exactly what will lead to a stronger, locally driven economy in the North Santiam Canyon. “It’s my deep personal commitment to participate in implementing this program because I do believe that this will achieve and sustain long-term economic and community development for the North Santiam area,” says Mohr.
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Tim Kirsch is vice chairperson of the North Santiam Canyon Economic Development Corporation. He is a member of the Enterprise Facilitation steering committee. Kirsch is currently serving his fourth term as Mayor of Mill City. He is an appointed member of the Marion County Economic Development Advisory Board, a Santiam Canyon School District budget committee member, and has served as an alternate on the Opal Creek Scenic Recreation Area Advisory Council. Kirsch has lived in and around the Santiam Canyon area his whole life. He graduated from Santiam High School in Mill City and owns and operates a small business in the town. Kirsch believes that if we can help provide the tools that people need to achieve their professional aspirations, the economy will prosper as a result.
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Dave Leach is board member of the North Santiam Canyon Economic Development Corporation. He is recently retired from the USDA Forest Service following 36 years on various National Forests in Idaho and Oregon. Leach is currently working as a part-time, self-employed consulting forester. He holds a bachelor's degree in Forest Management from Michigan State University and completed an advanced program in Forest Ecology and Silviculture while employed with the Forest Service. He and his wife Anita are residents of Mill City. Leach believes that an improved environment for small businesses would be a great match for the physical environment that already exists in the North Santiam Canyon.
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Paul Matter is the chairperson for the North Santiam Canyon Economic Development Corporation and is also a member of the Enterprise Facilitation steering committee. He has been employed by the USDA-Forest Service since 1979, and is currently the Detroit District Ranger for the Willamette National Forest. Matter holds a bachelor’s degree in Forestry from Michigan State University that he earned in 1979, and he completed Advanced Technical Training in forest engineering at Oregon State University in 1991.
Matter and his wife of 28 years, Pamela, have two children: Allison, 21, who will be graduating from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in Spring 2007 and Christopher, a junior at Santiam High School in Mill City, Ore. Matter sees strength in the North Santiam Canyon region in that its citizens are passionately devoted to their communities. He believes that the enterprise facilitation small business development model is uniquely designed to capture this passion and the strength of these community members.
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Dr. Mike Medley is the corporate secretary of the North Santiam Canyon Economic Development Corporation and Enterprise Facilitation Program Manager. He has spent 20 years in the military, 15 years in industry, and five years as a university professor teaching courses in business and education. He has earned a master’s in business administration from the University of Phoenix and a doctorate in education technology leadership from Pepperdine University. Recently retired and living in Mill City, he believes that a community with a healthy economy is a community that he and others will want to call home.
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