Mary Kate Leming's Blog Posts Tagged 'town manager' (11)

By Mary Thurwachter



    After a day of interviewing seven candidates on April 13, the Lantana Town Council unanimously chose Deborah Manzo as the town’s new manager.

Although Manzo, who is Greenacres assistant city manager, won’t officially begin until May 7, she was introduced during the April 23 council…

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By Mary Thurwachter

    

A week before Lake Worth commissioners unanimously chose Lantana Town Manager Mike Bornstein as the new city manager, colleagues in Lantana braced themselves for his probable departure.   

    Mayor Dave Stewart said he knew the day would come when Bornstein, town manager for 12 years, would move on.

    “Don’t get a big head over this, Mike, but over the past four or five years, our town was not of the size to have the tax base to…

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By Angie Francalancia



    Ninety days after the Ocean Ridge Town Commission warned its manager he’d have to improve his job performance, most of the commissioners said they were satisfied with Schenck’s improvement.

    But Commissioner Zoanne Hennigan said she thought it was time for a change.

    “Since the performance review I still see grave issues and a lack of leadership,” she said. “It took 90 days just to complete this action plan, and most of these…

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Commissioners neither accepted nor rejected Town Manager Ken Schenck’s action plan to address shortcomings described in his evaluation in October. Instead, at the November meeting, they directed him to talk with Commissioner Zoanne Hennigan and revise his plan to be more specific and measurable.

    Hennigan, who said she was “sorely disappointed” with Schenck’s plan, moved to reject it, but received no supporting second motion from the others. The commissioner also had said that while…

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By Margie Plunkett

   

A long-awaited drainage and pavement project on Hypoluxo Island is taking shape with a newly awarded contract for design and construction assistance for paving improvements.

    Council approved at its Nov. 14 meeting a $26,623 contract with Kimley-Horn and Associates for engineering services on the project, which is to resurface North Atlantic Drive from Ocean Avenue north and Beach Curve Road from Southeast Atlantic Drive to Barefoot Lane.

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By Mary Kate Leming

and Margie Plunkett



    Ocean Ridge commissioners gave their town manager a harsh evaluation in October, but Ken Schenck said he was confident he could correct the review categories in question.    The annual evaluation, in which Schenck’s performance received a majority of…

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Throughout a May 17 Boynton Beach City Commission meeting, residents took the opportunity to react to City Manager Kurt Bressner’s announcement earlier in the day that he would resign.

They praised the long-time city manager and thanked him for his years of service.

    “I take my hat off to Kurt Bressner,… Continue

By Steve Plunkett



Seven weeks after her promotion was announced, it’s a done deal: Linda Stumpf is Manalapan’s town manager.

When town commissioners fired Thomas Heck on Oct. 28 they elevated Stumpf from finance director to interim manager until she and Mayor Kelly Gottlieb could negotiate an employment contract. But the proposal they devised was pulled from the November agenda after Stumpf talked separately with commissioners.

After a series of one-on-one conferences,… Continue

By Steve Plunkett



Linda Stumpf is still Manalapan’s acting manager and is still negotiating an employment contract.

When town commissioners fired Town Manager Tom Heck in late October, they merged his position with Stumpf’s job as town finance director and named her acting town manager pending a “mutually satisfactory’’ agreement. Stumpf and Mayor Kelly Gottlieb were to negotiate the new terms.

But the proposed contract was taken off… Continue

By Steve Plunkett

In the end, the firing was much quicker than the hiring.

Manalapan commissioners spent less than 70 minutes collapsing the duties of finance director into Town Manager Tom Heck’s job, dismissing him and offering Finance

Director Linda Stumpf the reorganized…

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By Margie Plunkett



Help Wanted: Manalapan town manager.

Manalapan is in the market for a new town manager after Gregory Dunham, who has filled the role for most of this decade, told commissioners at their November meeting he is retiring from municipal government and will step down early next year.

“I’ve been a city manager for 28 years,” Dunham said in an interview later. “While I enjoyed every part of it, I would like to try something else. It’s a personal choice; I’m not… Continue