Learn about Bellaire City Council Candidate Mary Michael Fife
Mary Michael Fife, a resident of Town Oaks Place in Bellaire, filed as a candidate Monday for the special election that will be held November 3 to fill the unexpired term of Place 5 City Councilman Andrew Friedberg.
Fife has not been a previous member of a city board or commission. She was recently asked by Mayor Phil Nauert to serve on the Ad Hoc Committee advising the city on the site and design for the new city hall, policestation and municipal court.
She did address the city council in July, 2012, about the concerns of her neighbors about the development of Evelyn’s Park.
Although Fife expressed gratitude to the Rubenstein Foundation for donating the nearly 5-acre tract to the city of Bellaire, she and her neighbors raised questions about whether there would be adequate parking at the new park.
The Evelyn’s Park Conservancy and the city of Bellaire have an agreement with Bellaire United Methodist Church to allow parking at the church — across Bellaire Blvd. from the park.
Some nearby residents have, however, recently expressed frustration that some park visitors have been parking on the residential streets.
Fife said she has become an “enthusiastic supporter” of the new park.
She has one son and is the proud grandmother of three young grandsons.
A retired oncology social worker, Fife has been a resident of Bellaire for 33 years. She and her husband, Dr. Creighton L. Edwards, is an oncologist at Baylor College of Medicine.
Information retrieved from http://www.instantnewsbellaire.com/2015/07/27/38862/