NORTH PORT – North Port city commissioners picked 11 city manager candidate semifinalists from a field of 45 applicants Wednesday morning.
Doug Thomas, a senior vice president with Texas-based SGR, the firm hired to conduct a nationwide search, vetted candidates from as far away as the state of Washington, but five of the top candidates have recent experience in Florida. Eight are certified managers with the International City/County Management Association.
Three of those candidates, Caryn Gardner-Young, a Florid Department of Transportation planning supervisor; Thomas Hutka, public works director for Broward County; and Jane Shang, former city manager for Deltona, were all semifinalists in April for the Fort Myers city manager job that went to Marty Lawing, the former county manager in Guilford County, North Carolina.
NORTH PORT – The North Port City Commission will close Al Goll Hall and the building once occupied by the YMCA in Dallas White Park but on Tuesday stopped short of voting to demolish the two structures, in hopes that a future redeveloper for the site will pay for that.
The commission did approve the demolition of the pump house and bath house that date back to when the park served as the site for the city’s public pool.
Though she voted along with the other four board members, City Commissioner Debbie McDowell thought it would have made sense to demolish the two structures at the same time as the pool pump and bath houses. She worried that if the city merely boarded up the two buildings, it could create an opportunity for blight.
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