Okaloosa County BOCC — November 4, 2012 — Colin Baenziger — reading text

first-name basis. Some of Mr. Baenziger’s searches for local governments include:  Public Works Director, Chandler, AZ (population 250,000).  City Manager, Coral Gables, FL (population 42,000),  City Manager, Cottonwood Heights, UT (population 34,000),  City Manager, Fife, WA (population 8,200)  City Manager, Greensboro, NC (population 259,000),  Village Manager, Key Biscayne, FL (population 11,000),  Economic Development Director, Loudoun County, VA (population 290,000)  Community Development Director, Miami, FL (population 373,000)  Borough Manager, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska (population 88,000),  City Manager, Miami Gardens, FL (population 103,000),  City Manager, Orange City, FL (population 10,000),  City Manager, Palm Coast, FL (population 51,000),  City Manager, Portland, ME (population 65,000),  City Manager, Roanoke, VA (population 93,000),  General Manager, Tampa Bay Water Authority (serving a population of 2.4 million), and  County Manager, Union County, NC (population 290,000) Other recent efforts include a strategic planning session for the Florida Association of Special Districts, an operational review of Tamarac's water utility, a business practices review for a division of Martin County government, an operational reconciliation for Palm Beach County Water, development of an automated system to pay royalties to featured recording artists for the Recording Industry Association of America, and a review of financial procedures for a division of the Marriott Corporation. Mr. Baenziger has a Master's Degree with Distinction in Public Administration from Cornell University's Graduate School of Management, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College. He is also active in the International City Management Association and the Florida City and County Management Association. He has also been called upon frequently to speak at conferences of the Utah and Florida City/County Managers’ Associations, and the Florida Public Personnel Association. -11- III. Project Staff (continued) Tom Andrews, M.S. Senior Vice President Tom Andrews is CB&A’s management guru. With over 30 years management experience in federal, state and local governments, he has been there, done that. With his no-nonsense approach to problem solving and his keen ability to recognize management talent and leadership potential, he is an asset to any client. His talent for mentoring has resulted in former employees occupying senior local government positions from Maryland to Florida. In addition to his comprehensive and successful experience as a generalist, Tom possesses technical expertise in water resources management, environmental regulation, and public health. Some of the top leadership positions that Tom has held include County Manager of Fulton County, GA, Chief Administrative Officer for Anne Arundel County, MD, County Health Director for Anne Arundel County, MD, Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment, Assistant Secretary, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Director, Maryland Water Resources Administration and Chief of Staff for Maryland Acting Governor Blair Lee III. Some of the recruitments Tom has been involved in for CB&A are:  Director, Watershed Management, DeKalb County, GA,  Executive Director, Environment and Infrastructure, Pinellas County, FL,  City Manager, Fayetteville, NC,  City Manager, Greensboro, NC,  City Manager and City Attorney, Roanoke, VA,  County Manager, Brevard County, FL,  Deputy City Manager, Durham, NC  Budget Director, St. Petersburg, FL, and  Director of Economic Development for Loudoun County, VA. In addition, Tom has conducted numerous leadership seminars for state and local government mid-level managers. He is also presently an adjunct professor at Georgia Southern University teaching the occasional graduate level public administration course. Tom earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his Masters in Natural Resources Administration from the Institute of Public Administration of the University of Michigan. He has been a member of the Georgia County-City Managers Association, the Association County Commissioners of Georgia, and the National Association of Counties. Tom has also served as President of the Maryland Association of County Health Officers, Member of the Anne Arundel County YMCA Board of Directors and President of the Providence Center Board of Directors, a non-profit agency serving the developmentally disabled. -12- III. Project Staff (continued) Dave Collier, M.P.A. Senior Vice President Dave Collier brings to the client over 30 years of management experience in county and city government. Since there is not much that he has not seen previously, Dave quickly produces efficient and effective solutions to problems for his clients. One of Dave’s specialties is executive search. With his many years of experience, he can quickly separate the wheat from the chaff and find the right person to join your senior staff or be your department head. He also has successfully conducted organizational reviews, sessions in team building and strategic planning workshops. Just as importantly in this day and age of the pressure to lower taxes, he has developed strategies and action plans for coping with the tough financial problems that local government often experience. Dave has overseen the recruitment and selection of:  County Manager, Brevard County, FL,  City Manager, Coral Gables, FL,  City Manager, Cape Canaveral, FL,  City Manager, Dania Beach, FL,  City Manager, North Miami, FL,  City Manager, Orange City, FL,  City Manager, West Melbourne, FL,  City Administrator, West Park, FL,  Finance Director for Tamarac, FL, and  Environmental Resources Director for St. Lucie County, FL. While serving as City Manager of Stuart, Florida for 14 years, he improved the professionalism of City Department Heads and staff through an emphasis on professional development and team building. He also used his hands-on management style to emphasis the need for effective project management and maintaining tight timelines in order to show citizens that the city government was effectively managed and had a strong commitment to its customers. Prior serving in Stuart, Dave was a County Manager in Florida, Kansas and Michigan. He also has extensive experience in local government consulting. Mr. Collier earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and his Master’s degree in Public Administration from the American University in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the International City/ County Management for over thirty years, served as President of the Maryland City Managers Association and the Florida Association of County Administrators. Mr. Collier is involved in his community as a member of the City of Stuart’s CRA Advisory Board and as a Director of Stuart’s Main Street Association. -13- III. Project Staff (continued) Kathyrn Knutson Vice President for Operations Ms. Knutson is a skilled professional with a wealth of public and private sector experience. Her particular expertise is in special projects, compensation surveys and background checks for our executive search candidates. She feels that each client must be properly served, and that can only be done by devoting her utmost attention to their particular concerns and by finding creative ways to solve their problems. In her book, the client comes first. Since beginning her working relationship as a subcontractor with Colin Baenziger & Associates, Ms. Knutson has been involved in virtually every executive search the firm has conducted. Some of the more notable ones include:  Public Works Director, Chandler, AZ (population 250,000),  City Manager, Town of Bay Harbor Islands (population 5,200),  City Manager, Coral Gables, FL (population 42,000),  City Manager, Cottonwood Heights, UT (population 34,000),  City Manager, Cutler Bay, FL (population 35,000),  City Manager, Fife, WA (population 8,200)  City Manager, Greensboro, NC (population 259,000),  City Manager, Homestead, FL (population 59,800)  Village Manager, Key Biscayne, FL (population 11,000),  City Manager, City of Marathon, FL (population 11,500)  Village Manager, Village of Palmetto Bay, FL (population 24,000)  City Manager, Portland, ME (65,000)  City Manager, Roanoke, VA (population 101,000), and  City Manager, City of West Melbourne, FL (population 15,000). As noted, a major part of Ms. Knutson's work has been on special projects. For example, she is responsible for the firm's annual City Manager compensation survey and also has worked with Palm Beach County Water Utilities reviewing a portion of its billing database. The utility’s concern was possible under-billing, and our work involved a review of billing records for reasonableness and consistency, as well as extensive work in the field. Thanks to Ms. Knutson’s work, the Utility recovered our fee several times over. Ms. Knutson's prior employment includes stints with Palm Beach County's Department of Building, Planning, and Zoning, and with the County Health and Rehabilitative Services. She has also worked with the State of Florida's Department of Corrections and with the State's Department of Employment Services. She has also been involved with a number of private and non-profit concerns, such as the Visiting Nurses Association and Oakwood Mental Health Center of the Palm Beaches. Ms. Knutson has an Associate’s Degree in Business Education from West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia. Kathyrn currently resides in Oneida County, WI -14- IV. References / City Manager Searches The staff at Colin Baenziger & Associates has completed over 120 searches for city and county managers and more than 200 senior-level local government management searches overall. References are provided below for a number of our most relevant Florida searches as well as two of our national searches. 1) County Administrator, Bay County, FL (population 158,000). Contact: Commissioner Mike Nelson at (850) 248-8140 or mnelson@baycountyfl.gov, Commissioner Mike Thomas at (850) 248-8140 or mthomas@baycountyfl.gov County Administrator Ed Smith at (850) 248-8140. esmith@baycountyfl.gov 818 West 11th Street Panama City, FL 32401 Fax: (850) 248-8216 CB&A was selected on June 7, 2005 to perform this search. Our effort involved searching the country to locate the best people for the job, interviewing them, conducting thorough background checks, and recommending finalists for the county to interview. The contract was a firm fixed fee of $18,000 which included our fee and all our expenses. It also included a two year guarantee should the selected candidate leave for any reason. The only item the county had to pay for was bringing the candidates and their spouses to the county for the interviews. We were the prime and only contractor. Interviews were held on September 9th and 10th with Edwin Smith, former City Manager of Chiefland, FL, and