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Source: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, IowaOct.存倉 01--WATERLOO -- A retired state employee and 40-year Church Row resident has joined the Ward 3 City Council race.Pat Morrissey, 64, of 824 W. Third St., is one of four candidates vying to win the seat in the Nov. 5 municipal election after longtime Councilman Harold Getty announced he would not seek re-election."I have grown up in the Church Row Neighborhood and raised my kids there," Morrissey said. "I know the issues in Ward 3 and I want to make our neighborhoods better."Morrissey spent more than 60 years in Waterloo, graduating from Columbus High School and the University of Northern Iowa before beginning a career as a state of Iowa employee.He worked as a drug and alcohol counselor for several years before becoming a child and dependent adult abuse investigator for the Iowa Department of Human Services from 1979 until retiring in 2010."I worked closely with community agencies and law enforcement agencies and with juvenile and criminal court systems," he said. "I also was a chief steward in the (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) labor union."I was a proud public employee and felt that what I was doing was a public service," Morrissey added, noting th儲存 positions helped him learn conflict resolution.Since retiring, Morrissey volunteers on the Friends of the Gilbertville Depot board. He helped start and serves on board of the Cedar Valley Bicycle Collective.His father, Jack Morrissey, was a councilman from 1969-1973.If elected, Morrissey plans to hold meetings in all six of the precincts in Ward 3."There's a lot of disenfranchised people, a lot of underemployed people, a lot of unemployed people in Ward 3. There's a lot of people concerned about public safety in Ward 3," he said. "These precinct meetings will give those people and opportunity to voice those to somebody who then they will trust to take back into City Council meetings as a voice for them."Morrissey also wants to tie development incentives to businesses which provide livable wage jobs; restrict payday loan businesses more; and work to make the city more walkable and bikable so "Ward 3 is the best Blue Zones ward in the entire city."Other candidates on the Ward 3 ballot include Dustin Cox, Shane Blackledge and William V. Frost.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (Waterloo, Iowa) Visit Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (Waterloo, Iowa) at .wcfcourier.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage