City of Fife Mayor Glenn Hull Resigns

Fife, WA, February 24, 2014:  Effective February 26, 2014 at midnight, I will resign the position of Mayor for the City of Fife.  It has been my great honor over the past six weeks to serve as the tenth Mayor of this great city.  As an elected official for the past six years, I had the privilege of spearheading many major initiatives that will have a lasting and positive impact on Fife residents.  This resignation will soon be followed by my departure from the City in late March.  As some already know, my wife has been an aerospace engineer with the Boeing Company for the past nine years.  Last week, she officially accepted an offer with the Gulfstream Aerospace Company that will allow our family to relocate to Southeast Georgia.

As many are aware, community connectivity has been a top priority for me since I joined the City Council in February of 2008.  I am proud to report, that over the past six weeks, there has been movement on this very important issue for our community.  Along with staff, I have been meeting privately with the Union Pacific Railroad and the Puyallup Tribe of Indians.  My goal was to begin the conversation with our partners about raising the needed money that will allow for the reopening of 54th Avenue at the Union Pacific Railroad crossing.  The public hearing we held last year, on this topic presented two differing community points of view.  One was about a neighborhood and school who feel much safer now than before, and another about a story of isolation and the false promises of a developer.  There is no debate, however, that a safe and functioning crossing will connect our community and meet the long term needs we have for public safety and economic development.  I am confident the next Mayor along with staff will continue to push and work with our partners to assemble the 15 to 20 million dollars needed to engineer and complete this project over the next two years.

As I close this chapter of my life and open a new one, I will miss you all.  I am humbled to have been elected twice by the Citizens of Fife.  I am proud of my accomplishments and know that I gave this job 110% every day.  I have met many new friends who have become a part of my family.  The staff and elected leaders of Fife have helped to make this experience a positive one.  If there is any wisdom I can impart to this community, it goes something like this, “Take control of your destiny, work hard at achieving it, and continue to elect strong leaders who are willing to stand up and represent your needs throughout the region.  There is no such thing as a stagnate community, you are either getting better or worse.  Fife has all the tools necessary to continue to be that hidden gem in Pierce County.  We have the resources, we have smart and passionate citizens, and YES we have a vision.”

Sincerely,

Mayor Glenn Hull
cityhall@cityoffife.org
www.cityoffife.org