Rural Forum Meeting Invitation
MemorandumTo: Land Use and Environmental Committee MembersFrom: Larry Matteson, Rural Forum ChairmanRE: Rural Forum Meeting Invitation
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You are cordially invited to attend the Rural Forum meeting on Wednesday, January 23, 2008, from 3:30 pm to 5:15 pm at the Hyatt Grand Champions Desert Vista Ballroom, El Dorado Room – Conference Center (please check program to confirm room location).Our guest speaker will be Suneil Thomas, the Director of Special Projects for the California chapter of The Nature Conservancy.Suneil Thomas works on a variety of high profile transactional and policy matters for the state chapter's real estate andgovernment relations departments including regional habitat conservation plans and large land acquisitions and dispositions. Suneil has a Bachelors of Art in environmental policy from The Colorado College and a Juris Doctorate from the University of California - Hastings College of the Law.Prior to working for The Nature Conservancy, Suneil worked in private practice as a real estate and land use attorney for the San Francisco law firms of Pillsbury Winthrop LLP and Ellman, Burke, Hoffman, and Johnson PC. Suneil is also a licensed real estate broker in the state of California.Rural Forum invites all of you to join us for this insightful discussion on the variety of programs and alternatives you use to place lands into conservation and what benefits each approach can yield. We hope to see you there!
