Tom Weeks of West Seattle has joined the board of directors of People For Puget Sound, a citizens group dedicated to protecting and restoring Puget Sound.

Weeks is the former Monorail board chairman, Seattle City Council member and Seattle School District director of human resources.

"From my home office, I look out across the driftwood and the beach of Fauntleroy Cove," said Weeks. "I watch the Vashon ferry coming and going, I see Blake Island and the setting sun on the Kitsap Peninsula and the Olympic Mountains farther to the west. Nothing could be more beautiful."

Weeks says he thinks the biggest threat to the Sound is pollution. That's one reason he joined the board of People For Puget Sound.

"I learned about People For Puget Sound in the early 1990s when I served on the Seattle City Council. My wife and I have been strong supporters ever since," he said.

"People need to understand the fragility of the Sound and to make the investments necessary to clean it up. That's the most important thing we can do to help the Sound."

Weeks has been a principal since 1984 with The Negotiation Group, a company specializing in consulting, mediating disputes, teaching negotiation skills, and developing training programs.