Candidate for
Member, Council; Borough of West Chester; Ward 1

Bill Scott

A Résumé of Commitment, Experience, and Service

Family

• Married to Linda C. (Sennetti) Scott since 1974

• Three children--ages 32, 29 and 25

Residence in the Borough of West Chester since 1975

Residence in West Chester since 1972

Government Experience

• 1998-2005 Member, West Chester Borough Council

• 2000-2001 Vice President of Council

• 2004-2005 President of Council

  Legislation/Accomplishments (played a leading role) ◦Building Projects ◾Added three parking garages including the award-winning Bicentennial garage.

◾Library award-winning renovation and expansion--first in over a century

◦Finance Committee Chairman--four years ◾Authored Resolution which successfully maintained water company sale proceeds as "rainy day" fund

◦Landscapes ◾Helped develop first Chester County Urban Center Revitalization Plan

◾National Register of Historic Places--Obtained listing for most neighborhoods in West Chester

◾Creation and support of the downtown Business Improvement District

◦Civic
◾Cooperation with County on construction of Justice Center and Parking Facility

◾Responded to public issues concerning delivery of services

◾Substantially increased trash recycling program

◾Constructively addressed off-campus housing issues for the protection of students and town residents

◦Administrative ◾Personnel--set salaries annually, participated in labor negotiations, structured departments, participated in hiring

◾Interviewed and hired contractors and professionals for major contracts ◾Participation in State and County grant programs

• 2006-2007 Campaign for Chester County Commissioner -- won 2007 Democratic Primary

• US Army Reserve: 1962-1976
• Military Occupational Skills: Basic Infantry Officer; Basic Intelligence Officer; Top Secret Security Clearance
• Active Duty: 1970-1972--Forts Benning, Hollibard and Sill
• Vietnam Tour: 1971-1972--Staff Judge Advocate Office, Can Tho Airfield
• Discharge rank: Captain

• Scouting ◦Enrolled as a Scout/Scouter for 57 years ◦Eagle Scout Rank--1959 ◦Assistant Scoutmaster, West Chester Troop 6, three years ◦Both sons are Eagle Scouts; daughter recipient of Girl Scout Gold Award. Photo: Henri Scott receives County citation for attaining Eagle rank, 2002.

• Human Services Groups and Organizations--1974-1983 ◦Chester County and Pennsylvania Associations for Children with Learning Disabilities, six years

◦PA Department of Education, Special Education Consortium, two years

◦PA State Developmental Disabilities Advocacy Network (founding President), two years

◦Juvenile Justice Center of Pennsylvania Board, three years

◦Children and Youth Services Multi-disciplinary Team, two years

◦Head Start Board, two years

◦Volunteer Parole Aide Program, one year

◦Sara W. Anderson Award, Association for Retarded Citizens, Chester County, for work as an advocate for the rights of mentally retarded citizens, June 1982 Of my experiences with the above organizations, I feel that several were particularly successful. Among them were ◾my direct lobbying of the State Board of Education resulting in the requirement that school districts provide special education for gifted children ◾developing training for Right to Education advocates which involved making presentations throughout the state including in Erie, Pittsburgh, Scranton and State College ◾getting the statewide Developmental Disabilities Advocacy Network off the ground.

• WCASD--Science Olympiad Program From 1989 to 1995 I worked to support the championship Science Olympiad teams (Pierce and Henderson schools) of which my children were members. I helped found the Parent Boosters organization, raised a substantial amount of funds for their trips to tournaments around the country. The students won many awards including national gold medals. I also initiated a meeting of all of the national medaling teams with President Bush (41) at the White House. The West Chester Area School District gave me the Partners in Education Award for my participation with the Science Olympiad Program in 1993.

• Paoli Business and Professional Association--Special Recognition Award in 1992 for the great amount of work I did as an active member for this Chamber-of-Commerce-related group.

• Neighborhood Associations ◦Friends Hall Neighbors Association--As one of the leaders of a neighborhood group, I worked for a number of years in the mid 1990s in a successful effort to ensure that the Friends Hall property in West Chester would not be unsuitably developed. ◦Friends of Marshall Square Park, Founding and current member

• Human Relations Organizations ◦West Chester Chapter NAACP, Lifetime Member, Current Board Member

◦Recipient of the Henderson High School Black Student Union's 2003 Community Award for Excellence.

• Landscapes--Chester County 2020/Community and Environmental Leadership Trust, Current Board Member

• Rutgers College, B.A., 1966

• Dickinson School of Law, J.D., 1969

• 1969 Preceptee for Robert W. Lentz, Esquire

• 1970 Campaign Manager, George M. Scott, Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidacy

• 1972-1973 Cadmus Good and Patton, Associate attorney

• 1974-1981 Legal Aid of Chester County, Staff attorney * Commendation

• 1981-1997 Lentz, Cantor, Kilgore & Massey, Associate through Senior Partner.
• 1998-2000 Kilgore and Scott, Partner

• Court of Common Pleas of Chester County, 1969

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1969

• Pennsylvania Superior Court, 1969

• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1969

• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1969

• United States Supreme Court, 1981

• Chester County Bar Association--1969 to Present

• Chester County Bar Association Judicial Qualifications Committee, two terms

• AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell

• Co-author "Special Relief, Pendente Lite, Under the Pennsylvania Divorce Code," with R. Lamar Kilgore, Esq., Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, October 1987.
• Joint Committee on Chesco Family Court Rules, member of original Committee and member of the subsequent Chester County Family Court Rule Committee for many years.

• Four-County Domestic Relations Practice/Chester County Section/Pennsylvania Bar Institute--Original author through several editions and presenter at First Four Seminars