By Juan Montoya
It took a little digging, but we finally found out who the city has hired as a new assistant city manager.
Ruth Osuna, who has been the City Manager for Eloy, Arizona for the past three years, is joining Pete Gonzales and Jeff Johnston as assistant city manager to Charlie Cabler, who has been city manager since 2002.
Although the furthest south that Osuna has lived was in San Antonio, she brings a wealth of experience to the job. She has both management and director experience from 1983 to the present.
Her resume list her qualifications as "more than 20 years of combined experience in local government, financial services, and nonprofit organizations working to improve the quality of life for residents using *Expertise in the following areas:
*Organization management
*Financial Operations and Budget
*Media Relations
*Community Development
*Policy Development
*Community and Customer Relations
*Intergovernmental Relations
From 2006 – 2010, she was Deputy City Manager/Director of Cultural Affairs, for Phoenix, Az.
From 2003-2006, she was Program Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), Phoenix, Az.
From 2000-2003, she was District Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Washington, D.C. responsible for managing the South Central District office in San Antonio, which is responsible for NRC
operations and activities in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Her duties included providing funding and services to 20-plus community development and housing non-profits in 4 states. Responsible for planning, coordinating and implementing resident leadership conferences, executive director and board of directors training in areas of role of board members, organizing neighborhood initiatives, housing development
From 1998-2000, she was chosen by HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo as Deputy Director, Community and Economic Development Department in Phoenix where she worked with financial institutions and regulatory agencies, secondary markets, local governments and community development corporations in the areas of housing and community development.
From 1989-1991, she was the Director of the International City/County Management Association Hispanic Network (ICMA), Washington, D.C. where she worked with that professional association of local government professionals. ICMA worked with local government professionals in communities with significant Hispanic populations to provide specialized services and support to local government professionals and through them to the broader Hispanic community.
From 1987-1989, Osuna was the Deputy Director, Community and Economic Development Department of Phoenix directly responsible for supervising a team of project managers and redevelopment programs in 8 Neighborhood Redevelopment Areas. She was in charge of supervising and coordinating negotiations with developers of commercial, industrial, and residential projects.
From 1984-1987, she was named Management Assistant, City Manager’s Office of Transportation Services in Phoenix where she oversaw Engineering, Streets and Traffic, Aviation, Public Transit and Transportation Planning and Research. Act as Administrative Services Officer, Streets and Traffic Department, for six months overseeing a $36 million operating budget and $138 million capital bond program budget, personnel, training and safety programs.
From 1996-1998, she worked as Community Development Manager, Div. 3, Norwest Mortgage , Inc. Phoenix, where she oversaw the division’s community development activities for nation’s largest mortgage company in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Hawaii, and El Paso, Texas.
Before that, in 1991-1996, she was the Vice President for the Bank of America in Phoenix, where she helped create the first Community Development Department.
Her first professional job was from 1977-1980 as a High School Teacher of English and Journalism in the Page Unified School District, Page, Arizona, and the Peoria Unified School District, Peoria, also in Arizona.
She got her Master's in Master in Public Administration with an emphasis in Public Finance from Arizona State University, Tempe. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Education with a dual Major in English and Journalism.
Eloy is a city in Pinal County, Arizona, United States, about 50 miles northwest of Tucson and about 65 miles southeast of Phoenix. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 10,855.
According to Osuna, she starts working for the City of Brownsville two weeks from now. She said she was going from a dry place to a wet one.
"I hear it's wet and humid over there and I'm going from dry and humid over here," she laughed.
20 comments:
Brownsville has a semi-arid climate, only an average 27 inches of rainfall a year, far from a wet climate. Of course, it can receive more half that much in a single day if a hurricane hits. Funny how people think of Brownsville as "South". It has nothing to do with the traditional South. It is culturally, racially and ethnically Northeastern Mexico, formally the Spanish Provincias Internas and the old Intendencia de San Luis Potosi, Provincia de Texas. Today, there is a world of difference between the Valley (really a delta, misnamed by the early 20th century Gabacho land salesmen to sucker Northerners into thinking it was a "Magic Valley" in the Biblical sense) and San Antonio.
Welcome! Look forward to working with you...
Welcome to Brownsville Ms. Osuna. As you begin your work, please not that people in Brownsville don't like outsiders.
Oh great another FU@KING TAX DOLLAR EMPLOYEE LIFER LEECH who has been sucking the government tit her entire (ahem) working life. How is this tax dollar welfare leech going to help create an environment for JOBS we so desperately need?
Pete Gonzalez is retiring at the end of Sept, is this his replacement???
Hiring a Mexican from Arizona? Noooooooo. We need all the Mexicans to stay in that racist state, to fight bigotry. And we need Asians in Brownsville, Goddammit!!!
TO BAD SHE IS GOING TO HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE NIMRODS AT CITY HALL ,SO MUCH FOR EDUCATION
In one week you are going to wish you were back in Arizona. You must have really screwed up your career to end up in Brownsville.
The Canadian government formally warned three porn channels last week, saying they’re not Canadian enough. Yes, some bureaucrats monitoring the airwaves punched a few numbers into their calculators and said, "Ottawa, we have a problem." But how exactly did they determine that? Did they not see enough maple-syrupy sex in a hockey rink? Not enough, "Harder! Faster!! Eh?"
Luckily, it looks like these bureaucrats were basically looking at the credits, not hardcore action. The agency regulating northern airwaves, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, requires all content broadcast by Canadian TV stations to be at least 35% Canadian. That works out to roughly an 8.5 hours of straight-up northern exposure a day.
To qualify as a Canadian program, shows must have Canadian producers and executive producers, and the director or lead writer must be Canadian, as well. The 1st or 2nd lead also needs to be Canadian — which could be hard to tell when assessing the Canadian content of “Quebecois Ménage A Trois.” (Say it, you won't be sorry).
Damn!!! They should replace the mayor with her>
Welcome to hell. You are over qualified to work in this shit hole city. You are now among thiefs and idiots.
Bonne chance amie. Behind enemy lines thy are.
Welcome to the Aborigine population!!!
juan if anyone is interested iand want to do a little homework according to inforamtion i found on the internet her city contract was not renewed in eloy arizona by a vote of 4-3, wonder why? also she had been there only from 2010 to october 2013 and her contract was up in decembe 2013. things that make you go hummmm, why did they not renew her contract was she not doing her job? just wondering cca.
No, it is Charlie's. He's proven to be such an incompetent ads...
Wrong! There's a plan to replace Cabler
they should get rid of Cabler. We need a new city manager. Por eso estamos como estamos!
wow, an outsider with experience....
It won't take long to say bye bye to Charlie, he should be negotiating a decent way out with a fat retirement plan...
Charlie won't let her shine, he already feels threatened and displaced...
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