Gerald Daugherty grew up in the Houston area and graduated from Cypress-Fairbanks High School in 1968. He was drafted out of high school by the Boston Red Sox baseball organization and after a short period of time realized that an education was more obtainable than making it to the big leagues. He returned to Austin where he graduated from the University of Texas in 1975. He has been a successful Austin businessman for over 25 years, owning and operating several successful ventures including a retail sporting goods store and the Pleasant Valley Sportsplex. A bachelor for 45 years, he married Charlyn Cook Daugherty in 1995.

Gerald was elected to the Travis County Commissioners' Court in November of 2002 and was unopposed for re-election for 4 more years in 2004. He serves as the County Commissioner of Precinct 3, which covers 48% of the landmass of Travis County. The Precinct includes 21 of the 31 Travis County parks, 9 of the 13 Emergency Service Districts and 52% of County accepted roads - 626 Miles of the total 1193 miles of County roads, presenting a challenge the Commissioner has accepted with vigor. The Commissioner's main concerns for Travis County are keeping county taxes at bay and improving and building more roads. He stands for smaller government, effective law enforcement and efficient emergency services. One of his first official acts after being elected to the Court was to have his salary reduced by 10%. He is known for being a good listener and considering all sides of an issue. He is direct, practical and represents his constituents with a high degree of energy.

Gerald has crusaded for effective mobility and transportation solutions for the past decade. He formed ROAD (Reclaim our Allocated Dollars), an organization that was the major force in successfully defeating the multi-million dollar light rail referendum in 2000.

Commissioner Daugherty serves on the Capital Area Mobility Planning Organization, known as CAMPO, the Austin-San Antonio Growth Corridor Council, the Austin-San Antonio Commuter Rail District Board, the Capital Area Planning Council, known as CAPCO, and the Joint City/County Subcommittee. He chairs Travis County's eGovernment Committee and serves on the county's  EMS Committee, the Purchasing Board, Cash Management Board, and with City of Austin Mayor Will Wynn is co-chair of the Balcones Canyonland Conservation Plan Coordinating Committee. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Regional Water Quality Planning Project and with the LCRA created the Southwest Travis County Growth Dialogue Process.Gerald is passionate about and active in community involvement. He serves on the boards of the Police Activities League, the American Institute of Learning, the Greater Austin Sports Foundation, the newly formed Austin Sports Commission, and the Metropolitan Club.

As Chairman, CEO and President, Jim Skaggs led Tracor, Austin's first Fortune 500 industrial company and the granddaddy of Austin's high technology industry, through a major turn-around and restructuring leading the company to the best performance in the industry for several years. For this achievement, he received an Austin 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award in 1994.

In 1998, The American Electronics Association presented Jim its Austin 'Lifetime Achievement in Technology' Award: "In recognition of his significant contributions toward establishing Austin, Texas a world-class technology center." Tracor was acquired in 1998 and Jim retired after a career of forty years in the aerospace, computer-based systems and electronics industries.Jim graduated in engineering from the University of Washington in 1959 and joined Boeing in Seattle. At age thirty he was one of the top six executives with NASA's Apollo Lunar Landing Program management team in Washington, DC. He was the youngest person in the United States Government at this organizational level. Following Apollo, Jim held several corporate management positions over the next 20 years including: President of System Development Corporation (SDC), an early computer based systems company, and president of AMEX Systems and of Allied Signal's Electronic Systems Company, both primarily engaged in defense electronics.

Following his retirement in 1998, Jim became a leader in the Austin region's transportation and mobility issues. He is also active as a member of the board of directors of 'Envision Central Texas' and he is a member of the Capital Area Transportation Coalition board of directors and a member of its technical committee. Jim is also a member of the Austin Chamber and RECA transportation committees. Jim is a founding member of his church and has served on numerous non-profit boards including Unity Church, United Way, the 100 Club, and the North Austin Medical Center. He is a member of the board of directors of The Alamo Group, a New York Stock Exchange company and Singlestep Technologies, a privately held high technology startup. A fourth generation Texan, Jim was born in Richland Springs, Texas and grew up in Burnet. Jim and his wife Betty were married in 1962 and have three children and one grandson.

Specific to Transportation, Land Use & Environment

I have:

• spent thousands of hours studying transportation, land-use and related environment throughout the US and the world.
• written numerous articles concerning transportation, land-use and environment.
• visited numerous cities to specifically study their transportation, land-use and environment including Dallas, Washington DC, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and Denver.
• lived in several cities experiencing and observing transportation, land use and environment. This includes Tacoma, Washington; Seattle, Washington; Los Angeles California; Washington, DC metro area; New York Metro Area; Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Area and Austin.
• commuted by train and bus on a daily basis and car-pooled for several years and have driven alone. Also did extensive urban bicycling in teenage years.
• traveled in essentially every major city in the US and to numerous foreign cities and countries and have experienced all forms of transportation from motor scooters to bullet trains.
• focused on these issues from the beginning of Envision Central Texas (ECT) and served on the ECT transportation committee.
• and am serving on the Austin Chamber of Commerce transportation committee, the CATC technical committee which focuses on transportation issues and the RECA transportation committee.

Bill Crocker is a native Texan and a graduate of Baylor University, having received a B.B.A. degree in 1958 and an LL.B. (now the Juris Doctor) degree in 1960. He was named Chief Counsel for the Office of the Consumer Credit Commissioner when he moved to Austin in 1967, and in 1971 was selected as the first Executive Director of the Texas Motor Vehicle Commission. He resigned from that position in 1974 to enter solo private law practice in Austin, engaging principally in matters related to the operation of franchised car, truck and motorcycle dealerships, and has continued in that practice to the present time.

First involved in political activities in support of the re-election of President Eisenhower on the Baylor campus in 1956, Bill became the Republican County Chairman of a rural Texas county in 1961 and a State Republican Convention delegate in 1964, and has continued to be a committed Texas Republican ever since. In addition to being a delegate to County, Senatorial District and State conventions many times, he has served six years as a Precinct Chairman and Election Judge in Travis County and two years as the Vice-chairman of the Travis County Republican Party. He has also served as the Resolutions Committee Chairman (1998) and Chairman (2002) of the 14th Senatorial District Convention, and as a member of the Platform Committee of the 2002 Republican State Convention. For four years he represented the 14th Senatorial District on the State Republican Executive Committee, where he chaired the Resolutions Committee and the Audit Committee. At the 2004 State Republican Convention in San Antonio, Bill was elected Republican National Committeeman for Texas. He was also a delegate to the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York.

While at Baylor, Bill was elected Student Body President, president of his law fraternity, and a member of Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. He has since been named a Distinguished Alumnus by his law fraternity, elected President of the Baylor Law Alumni Association and of the Baylor Alumni Association, and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of both organizations and as a member of the Baylor Development Council. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and has been the Chairman of its Consumer Credit Law Section. He is also a member of the Federalist Society and is listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Register of Preeminent Lawyers

Bill serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Free Market Foundation, an organization which provides legal services in defense of religious liberties, and has served as Chairman of the Board of the Heidi Group, a crisis pregnancy center support organization, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Marketplace Ministries, an organization which provides chaplains to businesses across the country. Bill and his wife of 47 years, Donna, have two children, Cindy, a former trauma nurse and hospital emergency department manager with degrees from Baylor University and the University of Texas who lives in Frisco, and Will, also a Baylor graduate, who sells digital storage devices for Sun Microsystems and also lives in Frisco. Bill and Donna have five grandchildren, including twin grandsons born on November 4, 2004. Bill enjoys target shooting, hunting, fishing, bird watching, photography and traveling.

Lorri Michel is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and earned her law degree from Baylor University School of Law in 1991. Ms. Michel began her legal career as an Assistant Travis County Attorney where she successfully litigated several leading-edge cases in both state and federal court. Thereafter, she joined the law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson, LLP where she represented hundreds of property taxing authorities in property tax collection and valuation matters. Ms. Michel also served as Associate General Counsel for Guaranty Financial Services, the financial services subsidiary of Temple-Inland.

Drawing on her years of experience in property tax matters, Ms. Michel opened the Michel Law Firm, P.C., in 2003 to represent corporate and individual property owners in a wide array of property tax issues. Ms. Michel devotes her practice to representing property owners ranging from multi-national corporations and commercial land developers to homeowners and individual enterprises, as well as property tax consultants. In addition to her zealous representation of her clients before the courts, Ms. Michel is dedicated to expressing the voice of her clients to both state and local policy makers on all issues affecting property taxes.Ms. Michel is a frequent speaker at legal and property tax seminars and is member of the State Bar of Texas, the Austin Bar Association, Real Estate Council of Austin, Texas Association of Property Tax Professionals, and the Majella Society. Ms. Michel is also an Invited Fellow of the Austin Women Lawyer's Foundation and is a Delegate to the 2006 Texas Republican State Convention.

Ms. Michel also serves on the board of directors of the Central Texas Animal Alliance and the Travis Republican Advisory Council (TRACPAC). In addition to her practice of law, Ms. Michel cares deeply about the issues surrounding the mentally ill and chemically dependant and serves as a Special Master in mental health proceedings, appointed by the Travis County Probate Judge.