Brett Glass (Other)
City Council Ward 2 - Laramie - (216)
Biography
Brett Glass is an electrical engineer and physicist and the owner of two local Laramie businesses (including the world's first wireless ISP). Many Laramie residents know him as "the Internet guy," because he helped to bring up the modern Internet as a graduate student at Stanford and taught free public classes on how to use it, at the Albany County Public Library, when it became available to the general public. He is also an author, a musician, an Extra Class amateur radio operator, a lover of good coffee and chocolate, a frequent speaker at technical conferences, and an advocate of ethical, transparent, fair, efficient, responsive government. He is both a tenant and a rental property manager and has done construction and remodeling, giving him broad, direct experience in housing issues. As a small businessperson and engineer, he has a head for numbers and an intuitive sense for when they do not add up.
Experience
Experience in government:
Member, Wyoming State Telecommunications Council
Member, Laramie Zoning Board of Adjustment and Solar Board
Experience in business:
40+ years' engineering and technology consulting experience
Founder, world's first wireless Internet service provider
30 years' experience in rental property renovation and management
Education
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University 1985
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Case Institute of Technology 1981
Community Activities and Memberships
Co-Founder, Laramie Film Society
Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Honoraries
Why I am Running
I am volunteering to serve on Council because I love Laramie and want to give back to the community and steer our city toward a bright and prosperous future. Currently, not one person who works full time in City Hall is elected. Council is all that prevents government from running entirely "open loop" with no citizen input. I can help Laramie's government to avoid bloat and bureaucracy and focus on core functions, while guiding its metamorphosis into a major league city with an elected Mayor as CEO. See http://voteglass.org for details of my ideas, ideals, and policy positions.
Top 3 Priorities
* Quality of Life, including high quality, reasonably priced housing
* Ethical, transparent, fair, efficient, responsive government
* Eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy while managing Laramie's transition to a form of government with an elected mayor
