Board of Directors

Greg and his wife Martha Weinstein are 20 year residents of Woodlands Drives. He has served the WDNA Board for the last 16 years. He is a retired Bureau Chief with the Office of State Courts Administrator, Supreme Court of Florida. His interests include neighborhood preservation, woodworking, travel, history, crossword puzzles, mystery novels, poker and lowering his golf handicap. He resides on Sarasota Drive. Greg may be reached at gangreen57@comcast.net.

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Vice-President, Jeff A. Blair has over 30 years experience in assessing and analyzing complex issues and facilitating meetings designed to build consensus between stakeholder interests, and is the principle and owner of Facilitated Solutions, LLC.  In addition, Jeff is retired research faculty at Florida State University (FSU) and for twenty-one years served as Associate Director for the FCRC Consensus Center at FSU.  He specializes in facilitation and process design and in addition his work includes situation assessment, strategic planning, and consensus-building among diverse stakeholder interests with divergent perspectives on complex issues.  He has worked with federal, state, local government, non-governmental organizations, and private sector representatives to design and implement collaborative approaches to consensus-building, planning, rulemaking, and dispute resolution with an emphasis on stakeholder participation in the planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of policy actions in more than 190 projects and over 2500 meetings.  He serves as Vice President of the WDNA Board and is the Governmental Affairs Committee chair.  He is WDNA’s representative to the Alliance of Tallahassee Neighborhoods (ATN) for whom he serves on the Executive Committee and chairs the Community Engagement Committee.  Jeff has lived on Old Fort Drive since 2017.  Jeff may be reached at facilitatedsolutionsjb@gmail.com.

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Treasurer, Tom Berger has been active on Woodland Drives Neighborhood Association board since 1997, first as Secretary and lately, as the Treasurer.  Tom recently retired after teaching college level chemistry for 32 years (3 at FSU and 29 at TCC.)  Jim and Tom have lived in their home on Camellia Dr. since 1996, but have lived in the neighborhood since 1994.  Tom enjoys travelling, gardening (including growing coffee trees, tree ferns and wildflowers) and photography.  Tom may be reached at tgberger@gmail.com.

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Secretary, Sue Conte and her husband, Gary Sherman, have lived in and around Tallahassee for more than four decades.  They purchased their home on Country Club Drive in late 2017 and soon fell in love with the neighborhood.  Prior to her retirement, Sue’s career in healthcare administration included many years in senior positions at TMH and CHP, as well as short stints with the state Agency for Healthcare Administration and Capital Medical Society.  She enjoys long walks in the neighborhood parks and streets with her rescue dog, Stella.  Sue may be reached at contesherman@gmail.com.

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Nasrin Belbasi, Director

 

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Director, Deborah Lawson is a retired governmental affairs consultant, a Master Gardener, and former owner of Rejuvenation LLC, an interior/exterior design company.  She has been Chair of the Florida Construction Coalition, a member of the Leon County Extension Horticultural Committee and the Leon County Extension Advisory Board, on the Board of the Friends of Maclay Gardens, and past Treasurer of the Sunrise Community Landowners Association.  Deborah chairs the Woodland Drives Neighborhood Beautification Committee.  Deborah may be reached at Deborah.e.lawson@outlook.com.

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Director, John Lemons is the father of two and enjoys being involved with their activities.  His wife, Tanya, works at FSU and is a big Seminole fan.  With a background in the auto industry, he more recently became a teacher.   John may be reached at jlemonsmtsu@gmail.com.

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Director, Zachary Teders.   Zachary and his family have called Woodland Drives/Myers Park their home since 2004 and he has served on the Woodland Drives Neighborhood Board of Directors since 2008.  His areas of interest over the years include the Lafayette Street revitalization/streetscaping, Cascades Park redevelopment, and Magnolia Drive enhancements.  Zach may be reached at zteders@yahoo.com.