Maury Treleven

Advisor, Waste, Recycling and Compliance

Maury spent the first 15 years of her professional career in project management, packaging design, sales, marketing, outreach, and public relations in commercial organic agriculture. Among her many accomplishments, she served as the Chair of Gonzales, California's City Planning Commission, for nearly eight years. In 2009, Maury opened a project management consulting business.

Maury has served franchise waste hauler Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling (TCDR) since 2009. In 2018, she partnered TCDR with the Monterey Bay Aquarium's "Free to Learn" program. She is a waste diversion and recycling expert specializing in outreach and education, local government relations, and compliance for residential, small business, and manufacturing clients.

For eleven years, Maury served as consulting project manager for Gonzales Grows Green (2009-2020), focusing on the community's Environmental Viability, Economic Development, and Social Equity projects. She developed the City's community information system and co-authored an academic curriculum awarded a 2010 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for Children's Environmental Education Programs. During the COVID pandemic, Maury managed the City's weekly food purchasing, supporting residents experiencing food insecurity. She developed a grass-roots community program to deliver local restaurant meals to Gonzales seniors, including personal messages of support and encouragement.

She has also served the City of Soledad, California, and the Soledad Police Department as a special projects manager, events planner, website content developer, community newsletter developer and manager, and social media manager.

Maury lives on a one-acre hobby farm in Gonzales. She is an avid composter, has a brood of layer hens, a fruit orchard, a vegetable garden, and a bee, butterfly, bird, and bug habitat. Maury and her husband are novice winemakers on their sixth vintage of Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir and estate-grown Syrah.