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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Several department director positions to be sworn in at Oct. 3 City Council meeting</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - The Oct. 3 City Council meeting will include a swearing-in ceremony for several department director positions. <br /><br />Columbia City Manager De'Carlon Seewood has named directors for the City's Public Works and Information Technology departments. <br /><br />Shane Creech will serve as the City's next Public Works director. He has been serving as the acting Public Works director since October 2021.<br /><br />Creech has 22-plus years of civil engineering experience, with approximately 18 years of that in the public sector. In 2008, Creech started work at the City of Columbia in the Public Works department where he has been for more than 14 years. <br /><br />Creech attended the University of Missouri, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil and environmental engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Kansas and Missouri.<br /><br />Mark
Neckerman will serve as the City's next Information Technology director. He has been serving as the acting Information Technology director since July 2021.<br /><br />Neckerman has a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics from the University of Central Missouri. He has worked in the City of Columbia's IT department for almost 25 years. During that time, he has managed various parts of the department. <br /><br />Creech and Neckerman will be sworn in at the Oct. 3 City Council meeting at 7 p.m. in City Hall, 701 E. Broadway. <br /><br />Acting Deputy City Manager Mike Griggs will be sworn into the position of deputy city manager at the Oct. 3 meeting as well. Griggs has been serving as the acting deputy city manager since April 2022. <br /><br />A graduate of Columbia Hickman High School and later from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts, Griggs worked for the Columbia Parks and Recreation department for 36 of the past 39 y
ears, including a recent decade as director. He was first hired by the department in 1984, left to be the director of Sedalia's Parks and Recreation department and returned to Columbia in 1993 as the park services manager. He was promoted to assistant director in 2012 and accepted the director's position after his predecessor's retirement in 2013. <br /><br />Griggs accepted the acting deputy city manager position on April 4, 2022. Griggs believes his parks career has prepared him for this transition, as it has included an emphasis on urban planning and infrastructure such as utilities, roads, parking lots, solid waste and event planning.</div>
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<div class="content"><strong>Location:</strong> <a href="https://gocolumbiamo.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=62b0c3219184457b88d19cf44ce1f4a3&find=701 E. Broadway" target="_blank">701 E. Broadway</a></div>
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