ALEXANDRIA: Alexandria City Manager Phillip G. Sunderland announced his resignation after serving in that
post for four years. He served 14 years prior to that as Alexandra City Attorney. He said he is hoping to teach and get back
into the practice of law. Prior to serving as city attorney, he
worked was a partner in a public interest litigation law firm
in Washington, DC where he specialized in environmental, civil
rights, and employment law. Before that he worked for the
Office of General Counsel for the
US Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. City officials said they hoped to find his
replacement by September. For
more information call (703) 838-4300.
CHESAPEAKE: City Manager Clarence V. Cuffee announced the appointment of Mary J. Bullock as the
new director of human re-sources. She has worked for the city since 1978
and has been interim director of the department since January of this year.
She formerly served as assistant
director of the department for
nearly 20 years. [] The city
manager also announced the
appointment of William M. Broome as the new director
of general services. He has
been with the city for 15 years, most recently serving as the facility construction manager within the facilities
management department. He
came to the city after a 20 year career as an Air Force Civil Engineering Officer. His first job with the city was as the construction manager for the public works
department. While there, he
developed the facilities
construction program office with
primary responsibilities for managing the city’s capital building construction program.
For more information contact Mark S. Cox, APR at (757)
362-6241.
CULPEPER: Town of Culpeper officials hired Noah A. Simon to be the assistant
town manager. A total of 157
applicants applied for the position. He was most recently
the assistant city manager in College Park, MD, and prior to that was assistant senior project manager for the International
City-County Management Association.
This is a new position for the town. In addition to
providing general administrative
support with project management and
program analysis, he will serve as the human resources manager.
For more information call
Town Manager J. Brannon Godfrey Jr. at (540) 727-3421.
At left, Commission on Local Government
Chair John G. Kines Jr. commends outgoing Chair Frank Raflo
(r). Raflo recently retired after serving on the COLG for
17 years, longer than any other member of the Commission.
DCR: The Department of Conser-vation and Recreation has incorporated the Chesapeake Bay Preser-vation Act as the former Chesapeake
Bay Local Assistance Department becomes
part of the agency. The merger is the result of the
legislative budget action taken during the special session that
ended in May and confirmed at a meeting in June. The CBLAD will become
an operational division of DCR joining other program areas like state parks, soil and water conservation,
natural heritage, planning and recreational resources, dam
safety, and floodplain management. Implementation of the Chesapeake Preservation Act will compliment DCR’s
role as the state’s lead
nonpoint source pollution prevention agency. The DCR was also given
new responsibilities in stormwater management as a result of
separate legislation by Governor
Warner and passed unanimously by
the General As-sembly. For more
information contact Gary Waugh, DCR PR Manager at (804)
786-5045.
DHR: The Department of Historic Resources approved seven historical
highway markers in June that
highlight important aspects of the history of the Commonwealth and
the
