The new board will serve through January 2017. The board will select its officers at its first official meeting in September.
Tony Simonelli
Tony is a design engineer at Boeing and a bike communter. He has coordinated the Kids Bike Swap for the past 5 years or so, hosting many work parties, turning many wrenches, and calling volunteers. He appreciates Sharing Wheels for the access to tools and parts, the community service it offers, and the chance to hang out with others who love bikes. He has served on the board of Everett Youth Soccer. His first goals as a board member would be to create a budget and a plan to allow for expanded shop space and hours.
Brice Howard
Brice is an attorney advisor for the Social Security Administration Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. He has taken the Sharing Wheels mechanics class and volunteered at several work parties over the years. He previously served on the board of Senior Services of Snohomish County. As a board member, he will bring his experience reading and writing legal documents and real estate contracts. He would like to familiarize himself with similiar community bike shops to understand how they have grown to offer more access to the community and volunteers.
Tucker Thomas
Tucker is a manufacturing engineer for an aerospace company in Redmond. He has worked in a bike shop and raced cyclocross on the U.S. national team. He has volunteered at the Kids Bike Swap and helped at a work party in the past. He sees Sharing Wheels as a great way to improve the community and enjoy bicycles. As a board member, he’d like to improve the shop’s community and online presence, organize the shop and systems to improve bike sales, and promote activities such as classes and group rides. He also offers his wife’s experience as a grant writer. Tucker has connections to The Hub in Bellingham and youth racing organizations.
Kristin Kinnamon
Kristin is a communications consultant who formerly coordinated local Bike to Work events and the Snohomish County Bike Map for Community Transit. She is the current president of BIKES Club of Snohomish County, and former president of the statewide Bicycle Alliance of Washington. She has been passingly involved with all types of Sharing Wheels activities from the very beginning, mostly through her wife Kristi Knodell, the volunteer shop manager. As a board member, she looks forward to developing a more formal volunteer program that can help support the shop as an important community resource for low cost bicycles.
Tom Merrill
Tom retired to Snohomish after working as the Director of New Technology for Paccar. He has volunteered at Sharing Wheels work parties, and appreciates that the shop offers an approachable community where people can learn about bike maintenance and bicycling. He has served on curriculum, product and customer review boards. He appreciates that Sharing Wheels offers affordable bikes to people for “transportation, exercise and joy.” He brings strategic planning, financial and management experience to the board. He looks forward to learning more about the organization and identifying gradual changes to match needs and funding