Marco Island council names Lee Niblock as new city manager
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The Marco Island City Council has selected four city manager finalists: Daniel Alfonso, David Fraser, William Malinen and Lee Niblock. There will be a candidate meet and greet at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 1 in the community room, 51 Bald Eagle Drive. Council will select the new manager at 6 p.m. Nov. 2.
Lisa Conley/Naples Daily NewsCity of Marco Island Government Center sign.(Photo: Lisa Conley/Staff)Nine months after Marco Island’s city manager resigned and about three months after a failed initial search, the City Council approved hiring a new city manager Thursday night.Councilors voted 5-2 to hire Lee A. Niblock for the manager position in a special meeting.Councilors Joe Batte and Bob Brown cast the two dissenting votes.Niblock, of Maquoketa, Iowa, was the county manager of Alachua County, Florida, from 2014 until his dismissal in September because of differing views between him and the commission.He earned a bachelor’s degree in geography/resource planning from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, a master’s in recreation and public administration from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in public administration from Nova Southeastern University.Lee Niblock was the county manager of Alachua County, Fla. from 2014 to 2017, and is one of the Marco Island city manager finalists. (Photo: Submitted)The four candidates vying for the city manager position — Daniel Alfonso, the city manager of Miami; David Fraser, former manager of Boulder City, Nevada; William Malinen, former city administrator of Branson, Missouri; and Niblock — had a busy day Thursday.They spent hours interviewing and being interviewed by all seven councilors before attending the meeting in the evening.The candidates were supposed to each give 10-minute-long presentations to make their final cases for their hiring, but they and the councilors agreed they’d talked enough during the interview process.Niblock joked during his presentation that …
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