The subsequent Issaquah metropolis administrator is a plainspoken Midwesterner and the longtime metropolis supervisor of a Cincinnati suburb.
Robert “Bob” Harrison - town supervisor in Wyoming, Ohio, for the last 12 years - has accepted the No. 2 place at Issaquah City Hall.
Harrison, forty two, emerged as a number one candidate last week during closed-door interviews with community leaders and city department chiefs. Mayor Ava Frisinger announced the appointment Thursday morning, and the appointment heads to the Metropolis Council for confirmation Monday.
Harrison is due to begin in Issaquah on Oct. 11.
“I'm thrilled to nominate Bob as our subsequent administrator,” Frisinger stated in a statement. “His dedication to environmental excellence, fiscal stewardship and community involvement - demonstrated by his spectacular career in metropolis administration - are a fantastic match for our community.”
Harrison inherits a role defined by Leon Kos, the city administrator for 33 years. Kos retired in April, and the city launched a seek for a successor weeks later.
Harrison serves as the top appointed official in Wyoming, a metropolis of about eight,000 people situated 10 miles northeast of Cincinnati. For about 18 months earlier than the Wyoming appointment, Harrison served as the town supervisor of Mosinee, Wis. - then a city of 4,000 in north-central Wisconsin.
“My household and I had been searching for the perfect alternative to move to the Pacific Northwest,” Harrison said in a statement. “Issaquah’s pure beauty, engaged group, spectacular colleges and vivid future made our search an easy one. We stay up for becoming energetic members of the Issaquah community.”
Harrison is the daddy of five youngsters, ages 15 months to 13.
Harrison cited a love for the outside and a commitment to environmental sustainability as causes for applying for the Issaquah post.
“I let you know, I get in trouble if I exploit plastic luggage on the grocery store,” he said during a group discussion board at Tibbetts Creek Manor on Sept. 7. “My spouse reminds me I’m not purported to do that.”
Under Harrison, Wyoming received the highest recycling charge in Hamilton County, promoted extremely-“inexperienced” growth, earned a high bond score and ranked as a 2010 All-American Metropolis Finalist.
Leaders named Harrison a Citizen of the Yr in 2003 - a tribute he mentioned in the remarks at Tibbetts Creek Manor.
“We’re not doing this for cash, we’re doing this for a better ethical goal, which is to really serve our residents and the group wherein we reside,” he said then.
Harrison lauded residents in Wyoming and Issaquah for group involvement.
“By way of neighborhood, I've had the profit working in a highly democratic neighborhood - with slightly D,” he said. “When I have a look at the core values right here in this city, you guys are actually engaged. I’ve had that opportunity to have a very engaged citizenry who're very involved, and that aren’t shy about letting you understand what their themes are, letting you realize what they think and the course that the community ought to go.”