The Sequim City Council honored Barb Hanna at Monday’s council meeting on the occasion of her retirement after serving 16 years as the city’s first communications and marketing director.  Part of her role has been to serve as the city’s public information officer during emergency operations to ensure that reliable information reached the public when it was most needed. A resolution read by Mayor Rachel Anderson said that she led the inaugural Sequim Sunshine Festival in 2020 celebrating Sequim’s spirit, resilience and pride of place.

In her remarks in response to the resolution, Barb thanked the Mayor and Council.

“Its bitter sweet for sure. But I do want to say that I have really being in this role for the last 16 years. Its given me an opportunity serve this city and community in a way that think would be possible when we move here. I have loved being part of something bigger and really important and I want to thank Matt and my co-workers for all of the support and friendship that they’ve shown me over the years and the City Managers that went before that that had faith in this position and support. And thank you to the community. I had always felt very, very supported  in this role and I really appreciated it.”

She said she’s not going anyway.  She’ll still be around town.

PHOTO  Barb Hanna and Mayor Rachel Anderson