Kenneth City Hires Interim Town Manager and Transition Team

Published — Jun 13, 2022

Imagine That Performance, a growing consulting company focused on local government leadership, executed an agreement with the Town of Kenneth City to provide an Interim Town Manager along with a Leadership Transition Team to stabilize leadership after the previous Town Manager tendered his resignation.

Rob Duncan sworn in as Interim Town Manager

The agreement, executed on June 8, 2022, features Rob Duncan, Managing Director of Imagine That Performance, serving as the Interim Town Manager. “We are excited to provide the Town of Kenneth City with the transitional leadership needed, with the immediate team focus on the budget process” said Mr. Duncan. “We recognize the importance of freeing the Town Council from the burdens of day to day operations so they can focus on budget and policy decisions.”

Beyond Interim Town Manager day to day services, the agreement for municipal and management services also provides a complete Leadership Transition Team to Kenneth City. Team members were assigned tasks that continued the preservation of the public’s health, safety and welfare, including but not limited to:

Securing Accounting, Code Enforcement and Legal solutions to overcome recent departures
Comprehensive Revenue Analysis to understand available sources of income for the Town
Additional professional services solution identification for Building/Permitting, Engineering and Information Technology among other deferred procurement needs
Annual budget preparation and compliance
Provide an Interim Town Clerk

Members of the Leadership Transition Team are:

J.P. Murphy, former Town Manager for Belleair, Florida
Lisa Hendrickson, former Florida human resource director and Assistant City Manager for Pinellas Park, Florida
Jocilyn Martinez, former Assistant Town Manager for Port Richey, Florida
Michelle Lee Berger, former Town Manager for Sewall’s Point, Florida and three term elected official for Port St. Lucie, Florida

The Town Council believed time was of the essence to ensure that the essential executive level functions were diligently discharged. “We are fortunate to have a professional team able to come in and assist Kenneth City right away” said Mayor Robert Howell. “We have important decisions to make as a Town Council and this team will provide the information necessary to help us make the best decisions for our community.”

Imagine That Performance, LLC shares their mission is to assist local government leaders to implement evolving leadership techniques that best serve their employees and citizens and nurtures trust for all stakeholders. The firm has established nationwide Virtual Think Tanks for City Managers and County Administrators. These professionally-facilitated groups offer a real-time platform to leverage other leaders’ experience to ask the right questions and offer insight prior to developing solutions. With Local Government Consulting and Professional Facilitation Services, Imagine That Performance is providing hands-on resources to get work done, generating desired outcomes for municipalities.