The Newsletter for City of Fayetteville Employees JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 Vol. 2, No. 1 McFall Retires After 31 Years of Service City Employee Profi les Robert “Bob” McFall has retired from the City’s Community Development Department after 31 years of hard work and dedication. Bob served as a Sr. Housing Program Specialist and always went beyond the call of duty, making sure that projects got done no matter what. EloiseEl i Sahlstrom S hl JackieJkiTk Tuckey Urban Designer/Senior Planner with Public Relations with Professionally, Bob did the initial work writeups Development Services Environmental Services on housing repair needs and supervised contractors’ work to ensure it was done in Date Started: March 19, 2012 Date Started: September 1994 accordance to work writeups. Hometown: Born in Baton Rouge, La. Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio Bob always had a smile on his face, was always laughing, kept a coffee station for people and Where She Previously Worked: City of Where She Previously Worked: She worked in opened City Hall for many years because he was Winter Springs, Fla. as a senior planner for Parks & Recreation and Management Services for the fi rst one to arrive. 10 years the City; Fort Bragg MWR Marketing; many other jobs in her previous life, all related to writing and What She Does: Gets involved with public relations aesthetic issues and issues related to Offi cer Sanders Honored landscaping; oversees facade submittals; What She Does: Communications (external/ gets involved with projects with other internal), education, community watch groups, With Old North State Award departments (Engineering - Person Street advertising campaigns, helps with customer low impact development improvements), relations and has facilitated employee (oversaw Bragg Boulevard corridor plan); committees and goes out in the fi eld and looks at implementation of projects What She Likes About Her Job: Meets and talks to a lot of people; gets to go out and be the face What She Likes About Her Job: of the City; every day is different. Establishing and Utilizing Photoshop. Being able to help continuing good relationships with city residents people understand what it is they need to is the most important thing we do every day and I do and help them through the process - my take this part of my job seriously. philosophy is that it needs to be a win-win, because we want you to do it in a way that Family: Two grown children – Travis (lives in benefi ts your project. Some standards she Fayetteville) and Jessie (lives in Halifax County) reviews, like open space requirements, are Hobbies: Photography, reading, traveling and more subjective sports - go Browns/Indians/N.C. State/Ohio Family: Two grown sons; grandson in University! OnO behalfb h lf off theh OfOffi ce off theh Governor,G Atlanta who is turning 1 in January; happily Rep. Rick Glazier recently presented Offi cer married since she was 20 to Greg, who is Upcoming Dates To Remember Stacy Sanders with the Old North State writing a book about religion Award. The Old North State Award honors Monday, Jan.26 - Regular Council Meeting, individuals who have provided exemplary Hobbies: Genealogy, photography, crafts; Council Chamber, City Hall service and commitment to North Carolina. when moving here, we located just up the Monday, Feb. 9 & 23 - Regular Council Sanders serves as the homeless project offi cer hill, so that I could walk to work every day Meeting, Council Chamber, City Hall for the Fayetteville Police Department. www.cityoffayetteville.org | www.faytv7.com | www.fayettevilleoutfront.com | Twitter @CityOfFayNC Page 2 Fayetteville FrontLine - January/February 2015 Hill Named Human Holland Joins City Resource Development Andrew Holland Lt. Jason Bass Named started Dec. 22 as a Director Management Analyst Fire Offi cer of the Year in the City Manager’s Lt. Jason Bass was Barbara Hill is the new Human Offi ce. He works on named the Resource Development special projects with Fayetteville Fire/ Director. Barbara comes to us the deputy city Emergency most recently from the City managers and Management of Nashua, N.H. as their HR assistant city manager. Department’s Fire Director, serving approximatelyy Offi cer of the Year 3,000 city and school employees and bargaining Previously, Holland was employed by the City of Durham with the Fleet for 2014. He has units. Prior to the City of Nashua, she worked as been with the Fire/ the HR Director for the City of Ardmore, Okla. Management Department as a Business Analyst for two years. Prior to that, he was in Emergency She also has experience in the private sector. Management Hill has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Juris the City Manager’s Offi ce as a Management Analyst Intern. Holland also had the Department since Doctorate in Employment Law and possesses Dec. 12, 2005. Bass an IPMA-HR, Executive Level Professional opportunity to intern and work with the following organizations while in college: was promoted to Certifi cation. Lieutenant on • Town of Clayton, Town Manager’s Offi ce Sept. 24, 2012. • U.S. EPA in Washington, D.C. Megill Attains • City of Raleigh Planning Department He has been an instrumental part of the • City of Greenville Community Fire/Emergency Management Department’s Master Municipal Clerk Development Department Chaplain Corps, which is responsible for • City of Washington (N.C.) Planning attending funerals for Fire Department Certifi cation Department members and visiting with family at the Pamela Megill, City hospital. Lt. Bass also is an active member of Clerk, has attained He has a Bachelor of Science from East his church, visits with church members who Master Municipal Clerk Carolina University in Urban and Regional have family in nursing homes and is also a (MMC) Certifi cation. Planning and an MPA from N.C. Central mentor to the youth group. He shows The MMC program is University. COMPASSION for those in need. one of the two Bass is also a role model for the younger professional fi refi ghters on the department and designations granted Rogers Carter Receives demonstrates every day what it means to by the International Institutei of f MMunicipal i i l ClClerks k Budget and Evaluation serve with RESPECT, DEDICATION and (IIMC). The MMC program is an advanced DIGNITY. Lt. Bass has assisted the department continuing education program that prepares Offi cer Certifi cation with Critical Incident Stress Debriefi ngs, when participants to perform complex municipal fi refi ghters go through emotional strife after duties. The program has an extensive and Rebecca Rogers Carter, seeing the effects of emergencies on families rigorous educational component and a Strategic Performance and the community. professional contribution component. The MMC Analytics Director, applicant must demonstrate that they actively received a Budget and He represents HONESTY, KINDNESS, pursued education and professional activities. Evaluation Offi cer TRUSTWORTHYNESS, HIGH STANDARDS OF Certifi cation in December ETHICS AND MORALS, LOYALTY and LOVE for from the North Carolina one another every day. Lt. Bass demonstrates Mayner Accepted into MPA Local Government Budget great PRIDE in the department and in the City Association (NCLGBA). in everything he does and touches the lives of Program at Penn State The certifi cation program is a partnership everyone he is around in a positive manner. Kenneth Mayner, Graphics Manager in between the NCLGBA and the UNC School Corporate Communications, was recently of Government. It is designed to enhance accepted into The Pennsylvania State the local government budget and University's Master of Public Administration evaluation profession in North Carolina Marks Starts In (MPA) program. Mayner is also a 2014 alumnus and its purpose is to recognize individual of the UNC School of Government Municipal achievement for an established level of New Position Adminstration course and completed Duke knowledge on the topics of budgeting, University’s Nonprofi t Management certifi cate performance and evaluation. Angela Marks, previously a GIS program in 2013. He has a Bachelor of Science Individuals who meet the certifi cation’s Technician, started in her new in Public History from East Carolina University standards of professional experience, position as Routing Administrator and an Associate of Applied Science in courses and exams are designated as in Environmental Services on Nov. 17.7H Her main i Advertising and Graphic Design from FTCC. certifi ed budget and evaluation offi cers function is to develop routes and maintain the by the Certifi cation Board of the NCLGBA. solid waste database. Rebecca is one of 30 budget and evaluation “I came over here because I had six years of offi cers currently certifi ed in the state. Jacobs Joins experience in solid waste routing. I worked for City Clerk’s Offi ce Waste Industries in Fayetteville before I became a GIS Technician with the City. What I like about Frank Jacobs started Jan. 5 as Watch the Employee being the Routing Administrator is I get to a Sr. Administrative Assistant. Recognition Awards utilize my previous knowledge and He reports to the City Clerk Ceremony On-Demand! experience to make an impact in the City's and provides admin support waste collection.” to the Mayor and City Council. "I am glad to be Watch the entire ceremony at your a part of the team and offer my service to our convenience online at www.faytv7.com. She is the technical lead for the routing elected offi cials and our community." He retired software, called RouteSmart. She also uses the Join us in July for the next Employee from the Army Oct. 31 after 24 years of service. route monitoring software FleetMind. Recognition Awards Ceremony! Fayetteville FrontLine - January/February 2015 From The Desk of the City Manager Page 3 Welcome to a new year and another issue of City of Fayetteville and quite frankly, under the direction of the City Council, it was the most successful 12-month period in the history of the organization.