As Mayor, Ives was an active member of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, serving on its Advisory Board for two years, chairing the Taskforce on Sustainability and participating in committees on Urban Economic Policy, Homeland Security, E-Governance, Arts, Culture and Recreation, and Urban Water. She also served on the executive board of the Mayors Innovation Project, and participated in the historic Sundance Summits I and II on Global Warming, the Mayors Institute on City Design, and the 22nd Jerusalem Conference of Mayors. Ives has been a speaker on many topics including the U.S. Conference of Mayors National Conference on Global Warming, and was an initial signatory of the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. She was a jurist for the American Institute of Architects 2005 Award for Regional and Urban Design and the U.S. Conference of Mayors 2008 City Livability Awards. She served for three years on the National League of Cities Leadership Institute Council and is a lifetime member of the American Association of University Women. In 2019, Ives began an annual Wind Beneath My Wings Scholarship to help high school seniors living in Redmond pay for college. The new city hall building in the suburb of Redmond, Washington, just east of Seattle, stands as a model of innovative municipal thinking. The result of a juried mini-competition among two powerhouse firms and a comparatively upstart contender, the expressive winged structure rewards Redmond's town leaders for taking calculated risks. In 2022, Ives and others opposed a Redmond Public Safety Levy (Proposition No 1). They argued that: 1) the timing for new taxes is wrong given inflationary and recessionary times, coupled with property assessments that increased 45% in 2022; 2) surveys show residents feel safe; and 3) if public safety is underfunded it should be properly funded in the city budget, not with a new tax that would cost a median home owner an additional $525 with an annual 5% increase. References Living people Mayors of places in Washington (state) Year of birth missing (living people) People from Redmond, Washington