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" He said, 'You're absolutely right, and we need to
change that.'
" So he started the Wednesday Social Club, with
music, arts and crafts and activities, " McGinn
continues. " We had a mix of different kids with
various levels of disability-some had jobs, some
had to be home and cared for by their parents, but
there was something at Wednesday Social Club
for everyone. All six of the McGinn kids volunteered there every week. I don't even recall being
asked-it was just expected. It was a big part of
the way we were brought up. "
The experience had a life-long impact on McGinn, who saw in his father's commitment to
universal access to public facilities a vision for
government. " That's government's job-making
sure we meet everyone's needs. "
Continuing through college, McGinn volunteered with Boys and Girls Clubs and spent summers working at their camps. While it helped
develop his philosophy of community engagement, it was his experiences after graduation that
solidified a vision for putting it to work.
As an aide in the Washington, D.C., office of
Oregon Congressman Jim Weaver, McGinn felt
the pull of the Pacific Northwest. At the University of Washington's law school, McGinn served
as president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate and a volunteer with the Sierra Club.
" Historically, the Sierra Club's mission had been

focused on issues like water and air quality and
preserving wild places, " McGinn says. " When I
began working with them, we were beginning to
make the transition to thinking about the environment more holistically. It's not enough to draw
a line around wild places, when those places are
going to be just as affected by climate change as
the places we live in.
" That was a crucial moment in the evolution of
my thinking about these issues, " he continues. " I
began to see how inter-related all our choices are,
and how-if we want to protect wild places-we
need to make changes here at home. I also began
to think much more about how all the choices
that our elected leaders make about our built environment influence people's daily lives and the
planet...Everything is connected. "
Parks included.
One of his more noted accomplishments occurred as chairman of the successful 2008 Seattle Parks and Green Spaces Levy. Funds from the
eight-year $198.2 million levy are being directed
to the creation of more than 30 new parks in Seattle neighborhoods and for the preservation of
wooded green spaces.
" Parks are a crucial part of the mix of uses that
create great urban places, " McGinn says. " In a
great urban place, you have the walkability and
access to transit that helps to reduce our reliance
on single-occupancy vehicles. You have stores,
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