City of Yakima
Patricia Byers serves as the Mayor and District 3 Representative on the Yakima City Council, a position held since January 2020 after being elected to the council and appointed as honorary Mayor. Prior to this, Patricia Byers was a candidate for the Yakima City Council District 3 from May 2015 to August 2021. With extensive experience in mental health, Patricia Byers owned a private practice as a mental health therapist from June 2002 to August 2021, providing counseling to individuals, adolescents, and couples. Previous roles include serving as a mental health therapist and HeartMath practitioner, instructing life skills and customer service courses at Yakima Valley Community College, clinical director at Personal Parenting & Assessment Services, and holding various positions at the Yakima Family YMCA. Patricia Byers earned a Master of Science in Psychology from Central Washington University between 1989 and 1993.
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City of Yakima
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The City of Yakima, population 93,000 and growing, was incorporated in 1886 and is located in sunny central Washington. It encompasses 28.17 square miles in an area of rich volcanic soil. A regional getaway destination, the City is 145 miles southeast of Seattle, 200 miles southwest of Spokane, and 180 miles northeast of Vancouver, Washington. The region hub city is served by rail, highway and air transportation facilities, which have helped develop the City as the commercial and business center of Central Washington. Yakima is the 11th largest city in the State of Washington. The City of Yakima operates as a first class charter city under the Council/Manager form of government. The City provides a full range of municipal services, which include public safety (police, fire, and building safety), public improvements (streets, traffic signals), sanitation (solid waste disposal, sanitary wastewater utility), water and irrigation utilities, transit, community development, parks and recreation, and general administrative services. Tagged by locals as "The Palm Springs of Washington," the city does have a large convention center with several destination amenities such as golf, tennis, orchards, wineries, craft breweries, SunDome and Central Washington Fairgrounds, minor league baseball, and greenbelt activities along the Yakima River.