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City Manager<br>
Boulder, Colorado<br>
ICMA President 2019-20
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Project Manager<br>
Tennessee City Management Association<br>
ICMA Member Since 1977<br>
ICMA Credentialed Manager, Retired<br>
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While achieving our goals is important, how we achieve our goals is no less important. [PM Magazine, December 2019]
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Insights [PM Magazine, December 2019]
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Wooster, Ohio—2019 Recipient, Program Excellence Award, Community Sustainability (10,000 to 49,999 Population) [PM Magazine, December 2019]
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The decline of first suburbs has been a gradually building crisis, and a decade after the Great Recession many first suburbs are far from recovered. [PM Magazine, December 2019]
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Directness and simplicity in redevelopment [PM Magazine, December 2019]
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With rapid growth, infill is occurring at a swift pace, and infill happens on brownfields.
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The environmental impact and subsequent redevelopment of two Seattle-area businesses [PM Magazine, December 2019]