William "Bill" Sabo - Chair

Director Bill Sabo is an aviation safety and management consultant. He is also an active commercial pilot.

As a board member of the Monterey County Transportation Agency and the Airport Land Use Commission he maintains an active involvement in transportation matters affecting Monterey County and the Central Coast.

Bill is a decorated Viet Nam era combat pilot and a former pilot with Eastern Airlines. He was previously a Senior Vice President of Air Safety International.

Bill’s priorities for the District include an emphasis on continuously improving airline flight options and airfares for Central Coast visitors and residents. Bill joined the Monterey Peninsula Airport District Board in 2007. His current term extends through 2012.

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Mary Ann Leffel - Vice Chair

Mary Ann Leffel retired from a 45year career in the banking industry, working for large and small banks all over the US, as she moved often with her husband while he was in the US Army. She is now serving as the Director of Business and Industry Relations for the California Homeland Security Consortium. Leffel is active as President of the Monterey County Business Council Board, co founder of the Competitive Cluster Initiative, a public private partnership for economic development in Monterey County, Chair of the Government Relations/Business Development Committee for Monterey County’s Overall Economic Development Commission and as Chair of the county’s Workforce Investment Board Oversight Committee. MaryAnn is also a current Director of the Monterey Peninsula Airport District She currently serves on the boards of Access Monterey Peninsula, Interim, Inc, Central Coast Community Health Care, Inc., Monterey County Agricultural Education and Carmel Heritage Foundation. She is also serving on the Business Advisory Council for California Community Colleges, the advisory boards of the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation, Leadership Monterey Peninsula, Pebble Beach Food and Wine and The Tomato Fest. She is past Chair of the Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, Natividad Medical Center Board of Trustees, Leadership Monterey Peninsula, and Volunteer Center of Monterey County. She is involved with numerous other civic organizations through membership and participation. Living in Monterey County since 1982, with her husband, Hal, they have two grown children and three granddaughters.

In 2001, Leffel was awarded the California Chamber of Commerce Small Business Advocate of The Year.
In 2004, she was awarded the American Heart Association’s Heart Of A Woman Award.

Carl Miller

Carl retired in 2006 as the Chief of Police in Pacific Grove where he worked for thirty years rising through the ranks to Police Chief.

He has a BA degree from the Golden Gate University in Police Management and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the California Police Command College. Carl has lived on the Monterey Peninsula for 39 years and lives in Monterey with his wife Diana Ferrante Miller and sons Alex and Marc. Carl teaches police procedures at several police academies in California. In addition to the Monterey Peninsula Airport District Board, Carl serves as a board member for Interim of Monterey County, which operates 18 facilities that provides supportive services and quality housing for people with mental illness. He also serves on the board of Monterey Peninsula Impact for Youth, which provides anti drug and alcohol programs for children in Monterey, Pacific Grove, Seaside and Carmel schools. Carl Miller was elected to the Monterey Peninsula Airport Board of Directors in 2006 and his term extends through November 2010.

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Robert DeVoe

Recently retired from the Portola Hotel & Spa (formally the Doubletree Hotel) in Downtown Monterey where he served as their General Manager for over 14 years. Originally from Seattle, he has moved extensively with his Hotel career over the last 30 years managing properties (Doubletree Hotels) in Seattle, Scottsdale, Denver, St. Louis and Palm Springs prior to moving to the peninsula (Carmel Views) with his wife Teresa in 1994.

He has the hands on experience in Marketing, Sales & Promotion; Safety & Security; Human Resources; Guest Service; Operational Polices & Procedures; State & Federal Employment Laws; Lease negations; Construction Management; and of course all phases of financial matters (Revenue/Income development, Expense control, Profit & Loss, Investment opportunities and Budget development), as well as an in depth knowledge of the Parking and Car Rental industry.

He is a successful businessman and community leader with a lifetime of being involved in the Hospitality & Tourism Industry. Highlights of his Public Service experience and Leadership experience: Past member of the Overall Economic Development Commission of Monterey County; Past Officer and member of the Board of Directors for the Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce; Past Officer and member of the Monterey County Tourism Alliance; Past Chairman/President and Board member of the Monterey County Convention & Visitors Bureau; Member of the Monterey County Hospitality Association; Past Officer and member of the Board of Directors for the State Theater Preservation Group; Recipient of the Robert C. Littlefield Award for outstanding contributions to the community.

DeVoe has been on the Monterey Peninsula Airport Board since May 2005. His priorities on the Board include ensuring that the Monterey Peninsula Airport continues to provide for a strong economic future for the surrounding communities while at the same time maintaining the Airport as a financially self-supporting facility operating on a user-pay basis; The Airport must continually respond to the public need for additional air transportation while providing and maintaining safe and efficient air-transportation facilities and retaining/supporting the current air transportation services that serve our community.

Realizing that our Airport serves both commercial and general aviation, and that costs are climbing faster than the income stream, new and innovative ways of income/revenue development and expense management must be developed while at the same time of keeping costs to all airport users and tenants fair and reasonable. He understands the necessity and importance of transportation to and from the Peninsula which supports the Peninsula’s number one industry…Tourism.

Richard Searle

After WWII, I settled on the Monterey Peninsula. The Airport was in its’ infancy and as a flyer I could envision its value to the Monterey Peninsula.

As President of the Monterey Airman’s Association, I was instrumental in closing runway 6/24 for safety and noise abatement in fact I was the first pilot to land on 10R and 28L.

I decided to run for the Board in 1980 and was elected and I have been on the Board for 28 years.