Tag: City Council Work Session
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Oldsmar officials choose in-house candidate as Bruce Haddock’s successor
In a move considered by some to be surprising due to the timing, City of Oldsmar officials named current Director of Administrative Services Al Braithwaite successor to outgoing City Manager Bruce Haddock on Friday. The decision came during a work session where the City Council was expected to whittle the candidate list from 10 to…
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Oldsmar officials initiate city manager succession plan
Oldsmar officials held a work session last week to start the process of developing a succession plan for longtime city manager Bruce Haddock, who is set to retire in January 2018. The workshop, held on Valentine’s Day, was led by Fire Chief Dean O’Nale and City Attorney Tom Trask, who will serve as the point…
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Workshop addresses Oldsmar code enforcement issues, but questions linger
A public work session designed to address complaints about Oldsmar’s building and code enforcement departments concluded with some positive direction and lingering questions. When Oldsmar officials held a public workshop in March in order to address complaints that had been lodged against the city’s building and code enforcement departments, the hope was that enough progress…
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Workshop could lead to changes within Oldsmar building department
A workshop was held on Tuesday, March 8, in order to open a line of dialogue between the Oldsmar City Council and the city’s building department in light of recent complaints lodged against the department. In January, Matt and Sheri Clarke appeared before the Oldsmar City Council to outline a litany of complaints about the city’s…
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Oldsmar gets “edgy“ with new downtown development plan
A recent partnership between the City of Oldsmar and the University of South Florida led to the first public art project in the city, with art school grad Lakeema Matthew set to begin painting her meaningful mural at R.E. Olds Park next week. So when it came time to breathe new life into Oldsmar’s long-gestating…
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Oldsmar Little League rebuilding relationship with the City
For several years, Oldsmar Little League has been trending downward, to use today’s popular vernacular. Previous board members had mismanaged monies, leading to a debt of more than $7,000 the league owed the City on its lease agreement, and bound-ary restrictions set up by Little League International were partly to blame for a severe decline…