Leadership Team
The City Manager appoints Leaders who represent critical areas, including Community Safety, Human Services, Public Works, Economic Development, Community Development, and Human Resources. The City’s Leadership Team fulfills a global role in the organization which includes:
- Planning, executing, and evaluating organization-wide strategies that achieve Council’s vision and goals and important community needs;
- Serving as the City’s futurists, responsible for giving the organization its strategic advantage and opportunities; and
- Providing credible, model leadership that creates an organization where people can be successful.
The Leadership Team has the responsibility for developing and executing City Council's priorities in an annual cycle that includes multiple performance years. The planning effort includes: ongoing environmental assessment to identify emerging issues, providing focus and direction for the organization, resource and tactical planning, identifying core strategies and policies critical to organizational success, and determining evaluation methods and linking them to the budget and performance measures systems.
City Manager's Office
City Manager | Wynter Benda |
Deputy City Manager | Gregory Patrick |
Assistant City Manager | Kent L. White |
Leadership Team Members
DEPARTMENT | LEADERSHIP TEAM MEMBER |
---|---|
Airport | Andrew Lagala – Director |
City Assessor | Jeff Bandy |
City Attorney | Matthew Freedman |
Clerk of Council | Alicia L. Finney |
Commissioner of the Revenue | Mitchell W. Nuckles |
Communications & Public Engagement | Anna Bentson - Director |
Community Development | Tom Martin - Acting Director |
Economic Development and Tourism | Marjette G. Upshur - Director |
Emergency Services | Melissa Foster - Director |
Financial Services | Donna Witt - Chief Financial Officer |
Fire | Greg Wormser - Chief |
Fleet Services | Charles Cramer, Jr. - Director |
Human Resources | Michelle Jackson - Director |
Human Services | Preston Sellers - Director |
Information Technology | Tom Williamson - Chief Information Officer |
Library | Beverly Blair - Director |
Parks & Recreation | Wyatt Woody - Director |
Police | Ryan Zuidema - Chief |
Public Works | Gaynelle L. Hart - Director |
Water Resources | Timothy A. Mitchell - Director |
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