Teri had a little lamb… and grew up on a sheep ranch in Northern California. As a child and teenager, she lived in East Africa and South America and has traveled extensively since then.
Teri and her husband Rich came to Central California in 1984 to join the family’s trout farm near Snelling and moved up the hill to Tuolumne County in 1992. Their daughter, Megan, attends college.
Professional Background
- started working in local government in 1989. She spent 9 years working with local, state, and national government officials and leaders as a public information/administrative services officer for a regional transportation planning agency in Merced;
- began providing grant writing and administration services to counties, nonprofit agencies, and special districts in 1998;
- facilitated a watershed stakeholder group (included landowners, agency staff, local officials, general public, environmental, and other special interest representatives) in the lower Merced River watershed from 2001- 2004;
- served as watershed coordinator and project manager for the Merced River Alliance, a partnership between resource conservation districts and watershed stakeholder groups in the upper and lower reaches of the Merced River watershed; and
- was elected to Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors in Nov. 2006.
Teri on the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors (BOS)
Tuolumne County is governed by an elected Board of Supervisors and is divided into five districts, each containing 11,000+ residents. The Board of Supervisors presides over county operations and establishes policy, approves and monitors the budget, makes final land use determinations, hears land use appeals and adopts the General Plan and its amendments, appoints residents to advisory boards and committees, hires and oversees key executive and department head staff, and more.
Teri was elected in 2006 for a four-year term and was Board Chair in 2009. She recently announced her bid for the California Assembly, 25th District.
Board and committee assignments:
- BOS Planning Committee (BOSPC)
- Mountain Counties Water Association
- Amador Tuolumne Community Action Agency
- YES Partnership
- County/Courts Liaison
- Regional Council of Rural Counties (RCRC), alternate
- Mountain Counties Water Association
- Integrated Regional Water Management planning group
Other
Teri was appointed to Secretary Mike Chrisman’s Natural Resources Agency Statewide Watershed Advisory Committee and presently serves on the executive boards of the Marian Bergeson Excellence in Public Service Series and the Sacramento Chapter of the California Womens Leadership Association. She was a fellow in California Agricultural Leadership Class 34 and a Scholar in Class 2 of the Marian Bergeson Excellence in Governance Series.
Cooper Meadow
District 3 in Tuolumne County
District 3 includes the communities of Tuolumne, Twain Harte, Mi-Wuk Village, Sierra Village, Cold Springs, Pinecrest, Strawberry, and others in the Hwy 108 Corridor which reaches to Sonora Pass and the Mono County line. The Mi-Wok and Summit Ranger Districts of the Stanislaus National Forest are located in District 3, as are Dodge Ridge Ski Area, the Emigrant Wilderness, Kennedy Meadows, and many other much-loved recreational and resort areas.
Elevations in District 3 range from approx 2,000′ below Tuolumne to above 9,600′ at the top of Sonora Pass where Hwy 108 crosses the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Large portions of the upper Tuolumne and Stanislaus River watersheds are in District 3, as are the Clavey River, Pinecrest, Cherry, Twain Harte, and many other mountain lakes. Kennedy Meadows, the Emigrant Wilderness, and glorious stands of Aspen in high mountain meadows are popular destinations.
Residents and visitors enjoy Tuolumne County’s many year-round activities, mountain hospitality, and special events. We offer fishing, swimming, and hiking, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling in the Stanislaus National Forest, downhill skiing at Dodge Ridge, holiday parades, the historic Tuolumne Lumber Jubilee celebration, Tuolumne’s Farmers Market and The Women’s Improvement Society of Tuolumne (TWIST) Annual Tea in November and community clean up in June, Twain Harte’s Christmas, summer, and harvest festivals, Farmers Market, concerts in Eproson and Memorial parks featuring blues, jazz, bluegrass, pop, rock, and classical music, parades, craft fairs, and outside movie nights at Pinecrest, Twain Harte, and Tuolumne.
Blog maintained and paid for by Teri Murrison – Assembly 2010, FPPC # 1323866.
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