BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE PRESIDENT: JERI E. STUMPF

Jeri E. Stumpf is the President and founder of Jeri E. Stumpf & Associates, Inc., which includes a division, Smart Growth Partners. Mr. Stumpf's education includes a B.A. Degree from Dickinson College in Carlisle Pennsylvania where he majored in Political Science and minored in History, and post graduate work in regional planning, at Penn State University, Middletown Campus, and Law, at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington Virginia.

Upon graduating from Dickinson College, following an internship with the York City Redevelopment Authority, Mr. Stumpf was employed as a planner with the York County Planning Commission and later with Clifton E. Rogers & Associates, a highly respected consulting firm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In 1967, Mr. Stumpf became Director of City Planning in York Pennsylvania, a post he held until 1973, during which time he also served a year as the Executive Director of the York City Redevelopment Authority. At the time, Jeri was the youngest Planning Director in Pennsylvania.

In l973, Jeri became the first Executive Director of the House Local Government and Urban Affairs Committees for the Pennsylvania Legislature, following a recommendation by the Pennsylvania Economy League that the Legislature employ professional staff. He held that position for over twenty-nine years.

During his employment with the Pennsylvania Legislature until 2002, Jeri authored major planning, local government, housing, and economic development legislation including the act creating the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST); the Keystone Opportunity Zones (KOZ'S); the 30 bill HR 91 Urban Revitalization legislative package and the Abandoned and Blighted Property Conservatorship Act (Act 135 of 2008) and the Neighborhood Blight Reclamation and Revitalization Act (Act 90 of 2010).

His firm drafted these blight acts for the Pennsylvania Statewide Blight Task Force.

In 2002, Governor Rendell asked Jeri to join his new Governor's Office of Housing and Community Revitalization to help develop new statewide strategies for housing and community revitalization in Pennsylvania.