LISA CIRILL
Lisa spent 12 years in the mass media industry in San Francisco and Los Angeles.  Her work included television research and production, concert promotion, special events marketing, commercial voice-over, and media relations. 

In 1996, Lisa began her career in public health by establishing neighborhood walking groups in Venice and Santa Monica, California.  In 1998, she moved back to her hometown of Sacramento and started working as the 50+ Wellness Program Coordinator for the City of Sacramento. She also served as Manager of the California Active Aging Program, a joint program of the University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health and Aging and the California Department of Public Health. In addition, she was Chief of California Active Communities, the state’s physical activity unit within the California Department of Public Health. 

Lisa developed programs and policies to increase safe, everyday physical activity for Californians of all ages and abilities.  She worked to better integrate public health into community design and transportation efforts to improve options for active transportation and access to recreational facilities.  Lisa served on national and state advisory boards, planning committees and grant review committees for federal agencies, associations, and philanthropic foundations as well as various state departments and agencies interested in instituting health in all polices. More recently, Lisa has taken early retirement to care for her parents, Doris and Frank Cirill, longtime Franklin Boulevard property owners. 

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Communication Studies from San Francisco State University, a Masters of Science degree in Kinesiology and a Post Graduate Certificate in Gerontology from Sacramento State University.  She is a certified Physical Activity in Public Health Specialist, a professional certification of the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Physical Activity Society and is a Past President of the National Physical Activity Society.

For the past 30 years, Peggy has been in the local printing and graphic arts industry including owning her own business. Today, she is in charge of Sales and Marketing at Tayco Graphics. Tayco is a well established business that has been located on Franklin Boulevard for the past 35 years. Peggy is also the recent past president of the Sacramento Advertising Club, a division of the American Advertising Association.

When not working, Peggy enjoys sewing for the Sacramento Music Circus Costume Department, gardening, making jam and spending time with her five grandchildren.

GRETA VOHLERS
Greta Vohlers started her professional transportation planning career with the Sacramento Regional Transit District (RT) in January of 2002. After nearly six years with RT, Greta broadened her transportation planning career with work for the city of West Sacramento. While with the city of West Sacramento, Greta’s responsibilities included overseeing transportation impact analysis for development projects, updating the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, seeking funding for and initiating Safe Routes to Schools programs and many, many other efforts ranging from approval of truck permits to the creation of a Transportation Management Plan for West Sacramento’s Civic Center area.

In 2012, Greta returned to her transit roots and home state as a Scheduler for the Central Ohio Transit authority (COTA). Her work at COTA provided more in-depth and detailed schedule and operational planning experience. Greta returned to RT in a permanent capacity nearly two years ago where she picked-up her past work in service planning and related data collection and system monitoring and expanded her role to include many fare related efforts and agreement execution. Greta majored in Transportation & Logistics and Marketing at the Ohio State University where she received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration. Greta graduated from California State University, Sacramento where she earned a  master’s degree in Urban Land Development in 2008. 

Greta’s professional mission is to improve access to resources and opportunities for all through efficient land use and transportation policies and programs. She hopes to continue to pursue these aspirations through her work with the Franklin Boulevard Business Association.

National Night Out, La Pantera Club, 3121 26th Avenue

This year, the Franklin Boulevard Business Association sponsored two National Night Out (NNO) events--one in the La Pantera parking lot at 3121 26th Avenue and one in Rainbow Park in 'The Avenues' at Martin Luther King Boulevard and 41st Avenue.

Once again, the NNO event in the La Pantera parking lot was quite successful with more than 100 people in attendance. Free burritos, paletas and water were given away to the first 100 people, as well as free public safety information. Other activities included live Mexican folkloric dance demonstration by Rincones de Mi Tierra, DJ music by La Pantera, face painting and balloon twisting, as well as a bouncy house. 

National Night Out, Rainbow Park, MLK and 41st Avenue
(Co-sponsored with the Martin Luther King (MLK) Neighborhood Association)

In Rainbow Park in 'The Avenues,' nearly 200 people came out to enjoy hamburgers and hotdogs, ice cream, a bouncy house, face painting, side walk and necklace bead art, and basketball. In addition, the MLK Neighborhood Association also donated 30 grocery bags of food to low-income families from the neighborhood. Sacramento County Code Enforcement, the local WIC program and Fruitridge Headstart all maintained information tables at the event, and the Sheriff's Department and Highway Patrol also stopped by. All and all, it was a very successful first National Night Out for the recently established MLK Neighborhood Association!

On June 12, the Franklin Neighborhood Development Corporation ('Corporation'), the Association's sister organization, co-sponsored a "Pop up" Park event in 'The Avenues' with Supervisor Patrick Kennedy, the Southgate Recreation and Park District, Caltrans, and ASLA, the California Sierra Chapter.

The fast and fun parklet idea at the 44th Avenue cul-de-sac was the kick off to a future beautification project and it included temporary plants, information booths, games and food. Stay tuned for more information about this project in the future.