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North Palm taps No. 2 as city manager
Final talks are under way with
Dennis Redmond, the 30 year
city manager of Maysville, Ky.
By SARAH EISENHAUER
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
NORTH PALM BEACH — Dennis
Redmond holds the record as the
"longest tenured" city manager in Ken-
tucky, but local leaders are attempting
to lure him south to fill the village's top
management job.
Redmond was the village council's
second choice to serve as a new village
manager — a position that's been va-
cant since longtime manager Dennis
Kelly resigned in February. Officials of-
fered the job to Redmond on Wednes-
day after Paul Leonard, manager of Up-
per Dublin Township, Pa., rejected the
village's offers and withdrew from con-
sideration.
Colin Baenziger, the village's re-
cruiting consultant, said the cost of
housing and private schools in the area
were more expensive than Leonard ex-
pected.
Village officials are now negotiating
salary, car allowance and pension fig-
ures with Redmond. The village coun-
cil must approve the final contract.
"I think we're close," Baenziger
said Friday. "We're not that far apart
on any issues."
Redmond has been city manager of
Maysville, Ky. since 1973 — an ex-
traordinarily long tenure in municipal
management, where the average job
span is three to five years.
In memos to village officials, re-
cruiters described him as "family ori-
ented, forthright and street smart, tells
it like it is and doesn't pull punches."
Redmond described Maysville as a
city with a night population of 10,000
and a day population of nearly 40,000,
with almost 10,000 industrial jobs.
North Palm Beach, with a popula-
tion of 12,000, paid its former manager
$99,000. Redmond now makes $92,000.
He applied for this job in 1989, and
in March was a candidate for the Lake
Worth city manager position. He told
interviewers he has family in South
Florida and has long aspired to work in
the state.
If negotiations with Redmond fall
through, the village will focus on its
third choice, Bennett Boucher, city
manager of Cape Canaveral.
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