HomeMy WebLinkAboutWebb, Micky - ResumeMicky N. Webb
P.O. Box 1055 Bixby, Ok. 74008 Phone 918 369-1433 Cell 918 630-7348 Email mwebb01@cox.net
City Manager Experience
A skilled professional with twenty-four years of experience in municipal administration including a strong background in municipal finance, labor relations and economic development.
Also proficient in areas of land use planning and community goal
setting. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Holder of an M.P.A.
degree from the University of Oklahoma. Last salary $118,518 plus 17 % retirement.
Representative Accomplishments
Played a central role in helping the Governing Boards that I worked for develop a
process of goal setting for the City. Record of having most extensive process at each
city served resulting in outstanding accomplishments. These included unequaled
infrastructure development which led to commercial / residential development, service
business enhancement and recreational investment. Nominated and was successful in
having my long-time Mayor/Councilor inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame for
City and Town Officials.
Implemented a plan to build the only privately owned and operated convention center
in the state of Oklahoma. It opened in October 2008 and it is the home of the Tulsa
66ers NBA-D League team owned by the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Initiated the Corps of Engineers “Fry Creeks Local Flood Protection Project” in
November ’96 which was completed in 1999 ($13 mil.). Second Corps of Engineers
project ($5 mil.) was completed in 2008 on Bixby Creek. A total of $47 Million in
drainage projects have been completed and or financed during the last twelve years.
Initiated the Bixby Wastewater Improvement Plan to bring this service to all of
the city in 1994, have completed all the planned projects. ($17 Million total)
Developed the first “Capital Improvement Plan” in the city’s history. Completed in
June ’98. The plan along with business and residential expansion have provided the
City of Bixby a property net assessed valuation that has increased six fold for the
last fourteen years.
Coordinated the Bixby City Council’s objective in Neighborhood Organization
development to establish one of the best neighborhood programs which along with
the Neighborhood Watch program allowed the City of Bixby to be designated
as having the lowest crime rate in the state by the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals.
Demonstrated intergovernmental skills as evidenced by the following service:
Chairman of the INCOG Legislative Consortium (CTAG) a regional consortium that
employs a paid lobbyist at the state capital; former Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan
Environmental Trust Authority (MET) a regional environmental & recycling
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organization; and a former Board member (appointed by Tulsa County) to the
Community Action Project of Tulsa County (CAPTC).
Demonstrated personal integrity, ability to handle difficult personnel issues, and the
ability to represent the city with the media in a recent difficult situation.
Work Affiliations
City of Bixby City Manager 1993-2009
Fastest growing city in Oklahoma during this period of time
Town of Haskell City Manager 1991-1993
City of Bixby City Manger 1989-1991
City of Sulphur City Manager 1985-1989
Education
University of Oklahoma
Master of Public Administration degree – December 1994
East Central University
Bachelor of Science degree – Business Administration – May 1977
Outstanding Finance / Economics Student Award - 1977
Personal Data
Date of birth - August 21, 1954, wife of 34 years – Donna is a school teacher, two
Daughters: Ashley – OSU graduate; Whitney – completing CPA Grad work at
OU, Member Bixby Downtown Church of Christ, health good.
January 31, 2010
Micky Webb
P.O. Box 1055
Bixby, Ok. 74008
Honorable Mayor Randels and City Councilors
City of Cape Canaveral
P.O. Box 326
Cape Canaveral, Fl. 33083
Dear Mayor Randels and City Councilors:
Do you need a city manager committed to assisting you in accomplishing great things? If so, I am your man.
Fifteen years ago the City of Bixby was the Flood Capital of the region. Today, Bixby is the Premiere Place to live in the region and was so recognized by Money Magazine as one
of the 100 Best Places to Live in America in 2009!
The key to the community accomplishing great things is the leadership establishing the process to get the citizens involved in the “vision” for the community and the plan of work
to achieve that vision. I believe it is imperative that the community develop that process to “make it happen”. I wish to work with a governing board that refuses to accept the “status
quo” but demands a push to move the community forward. The attached sheet reflects a time line for the beginning of the proposed renaissance of Cape Canaveral. The City Council leadership
is the key component of allowing that to occur. The success of a community is most directly impacted by the decisions of the City Council to work with the community leadership to press
forward.
If the Council and the community leadership in Cape Canaveral have the commitment to meet the challenges that are required to make Cape Canaveral the best place in America to live,
work, learn and play, I would be interested in the city manager position in your city. In any case, I wish you well on your selection process.
Sincerely,
Micky Webb
OBJECTIVES FOR FIRST SIX MONTHS
I. Developing direction with the City Council
A. Most important – goals & objectives for the city
B. Establish details of a vision for the community – with Governing Board & Community Leaders
II. Developing strategies for communicating with the employees
A. Two way communications – understand their needs and convey my
approach to issues
B. Employee survey – initially annually - later on a two year basis
C. Direct meetings – size dependent on subject matter
D. Improved service delivery by improved morale of workforce
1. Corp Culture issues–i.e. “Fish Philosophy” or other
approaches
2. Individual goal setting – short range – long range
3. Career planning issues
III. Focus on areas of improvement:
A. Bldg. & dev. Processes – shorten time – protect public interest
B. Establishing working relationships with the business community, chamber of commerce, neighborhood organizations, civic associations and the media by developing accommodating communication
methods
C. Other issues identified by City Council or employee surveys
IV. Mastering the budget
A. Facilitating improved productivity of work force by various means such as implementing a merit pay plan
B. Developing with the City Council, budget methods to promote improved service delivery that will result in a better quality of life for the citizens of Cape Canaveral
V. Implement Renaissance Strategy defined as getting to know what the Council, staff and other stakeholders believe they want in the community and developing a process to get them together
and “make it happen”
MAJOR MUNICIPAL ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE COUNCIL THAT EMPLOYED MICKY WEBB
Public / Private Partnership plan that built the only privately owned and operated convention center in the State of Oklahoma. Opened in October 2008 and is the home of the Tulsa 66ers
NBA-D League team owned by the Oklahoma City Thunder. When the citizens desired to have a convention center in Bixby, I reviewed the history of these facilities. The facts are that
these facilities take tax dollars to build and then require a subsidy to operate. The “experts” that I studied on-line said to build them privately. They said that even if the tax
payers have built one, that the citizens would be well served to sell it and let the private sector operate them. I recommended to the City Council that they commit to a “request for
proposals” for the private sector to build, own and operate a facility with the city providing some well defined incentives for the development. A local developer submitted a proposal
to build it on his property at an up front cost of $100,000 to move a sanitary sewer line. The developer would receive an incentive of a one cent rebate for the sales taxes received
by the city on the development for no more than ten years and with a cap of $5.5 million. The plan was accepted by the Bixby City Council in December of 2005. Today, the community
has the “quality of life” amenity of the best place to be in the Tulsa region. The Spirit Bank Event Center is the place to eat, recreate, play and learn in the Tulsa region. The
Tulsa 66ers office there and play there and doubled their attendance from their previous home in the central part of the county. It is without a doubt the “hot spot” of the Tulsa
area as the media have reported. The great part of the deal was that the tax payers only risked the $100,000. The rest of the revenue for the subsidy will come from the revenue generated
by the development! The citizens got the benefit of a $65 million convention center that will essentially pay for itself.
Public / Private Partnership plan that will finance the first Arkansas River mixed use development in Bixby. The city was recruiting developers to build a “river development” to take
advantage of our proximity to the river and also to attract shoppers south of the river to increase sales tax receipts from that area of the city. The developer proposed to build the
river development contingent on certain incentives. The city will provide certain infrastructure improvements in an amount not to exceed one cent of sales taxes generated by the development
in addition to some utility relocations of approximately $100,000. The city will provide a sales tax rebate in an amount not to exceed $5 million. The subsidy will be for no more
than ten years. The $50 million development will be constructed adjacent to Bentley Park and will have a road connecting it to the park. The South Village River Park Development is
under construction with completion scheduled for late 2010 and will bring customers to the current businesses that are located in that area
Public /Private Partnership plan to finance a regional youth sports facility in Bixby. The Eddie Sutton National Sports Center for Drug Free Youth will be 225,468 Sq. Ft. facility which
will be a $30 million investment in our youth. The development will have basketball facilities to hold an AAU tournament in one facility. It will include two ice rinks and facilities
for volley ball and indoor soccer. The center will provide the opportunity for the children in northeast Oklahoma to play and receive professional instruction that has proven to help
them avoid drugs and criminal activity. A letter of intent has been approved by the organization and the Bixby City Council to build the center in Bixby.
Oklahoma Academy for State Goals awarded Bixby the distinction of being the “Oklahoma City with the lowest crime rate” for three years in a row in 1997. This award was received after
the city was the first city in Oklahoma to provide certain technology to fight crime within the city. The city had provided the police department with lap top computers for all patrol
units. Additionally, the city had installed video surveillance cameras in the major retail areas to reduce crime. Chicago had previously used the system to reduce crime in the “high
crime rate” areas. Bixby uses them in the retail area to reduce crime in a “low crime rate” city. The idea is that as the city grows the crime rate cannot be allowed to grow with
the city. Systems should be utilized to keep the low crime rate and using technology is the way to make the criminals’ cost of doing business too high in the city.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS – CITY COUNCIL – PAGE 2.
During the last twenty years the city has developed from a small rural community of 8,000 to a thriving city of 24,000. The projects the city has championed have created the opportunity
for great things to occur.
The city was known as being flood prone and efforts to finance $47 million in Storm Water Projects has dramatically changed the perception. During the last flood of record, May 6, 2000
while neighboring communities had hundreds of flooded homes and businesses, Bixby had six. Professionals have estimated that without the drainage projects there would have been approximately
one thousand flooded properties.
Twenty years ago the city was also known as a community of septic tanks. Indeed, 60% of the city’s homes were serviced with septic tanks. The city’s $17 million program went into developments
that were already built and installed sewer systems. Today, over 90% of the homes have a modern sanitary sewer system.
Twenty years ago the city had no transportation trails and only two parks, it now has utilized the drainage systems to also develop one of the best trail systems in the state and has
five parks and a six million dollar sports complex that will open in the fall. Bentley Park is the one that will be connected to the river development. Each venue in Bentley Park
has a private sponsor that has committed significant funding for the venue over the next ten years. It is another of the Public / Private Partnerships that is making Bixby known throughout
the region for its outstanding youth facilities. The complex will be the nicest in the state and the Super Playground will also be the largest such facility in Oklahoma. Along with
the other facilities that are now under construction and or financed, Bixby will soon be known as the Youth Sports Capital of Oklahoma.
The community had no golf courses or movie theater twenty years ago, now Bixby has two nice golf courses and a twenty screen movie theater.
The quality development has dramatically improved the quality of life and during the last fourteen years the sales tax receipts have increased seven fold and the net assessed valuation
has increased six fold. The tax payers have benefited from the quality development by getting the benefit while taxes have not increased. In fact, the last two bond issues have passed
and the financial impact has been much better than the city’s projections due to the quality growth that has occurred.
The customers of the Bixby Public Works Authority, due to our signing a forty year contract with the City of Tulsa for potable water, now enjoy one of the lowest utility rates in the
Tulsa Metro area.
The sanitary sewer rates are also one of the lowest in the region. The reasons for the low rates include the bond rating that the authority and the City of Bixby enjoy. The City’s
General Obligation Bonds are rated Oklahoma No. 1 which is the highest rating established by the Oklahoma Rating Committee. The Bixby Public Works Authority’s credit rating is “A+”
from Standard & Poor’s Corporation which is a nationally recognized rating agency. This rating reflects the highest level in the “A” category and is just one notch lower than much
larger communities such as Broken Arrow and Tulsa. Both of these ratings are the highest rating that organizations of their size can obtain.
VISION: Bixby will continue to urbanize but the goal is that it will be a different type of urbanization. The low lying areas that caused Bixby’s historic flood problems, now mitigated,
will ensure that urbanization will include wide areas of open greenways. Our park and trail plans that are included in our storm water system plans will provide great opportunities
for recreation and aesthetic quality.
PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPATION
Board Member, former Vice Chairman, Metropolitan Environmental Trust (MET)
Board of Directors, Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG)
Board of Directors, INCOG General Assembly
Board of Directors, Bixby Chamber of Commerce
Trustee, Regional Metropolitan Utility Authority (RMUA)
Board of Directors, Tulsa Metropolitan Home Consortium
Associate Member, Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa
Member, Oklahoma Academy for State Goals
International City Management Association
City Manager Association of Oklahoma
PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER HONORS
Progressive Leadership in City Government Award from the Bixby Chamber of Commerce
Establishment of local area calling zone within 35 mile radius
Establishment of Frank H. Geiler Business Park – one of six chip plant sites in Tulsa Area
Establishment of Tri-Cities Economic Development Association
Lowest Crime Rate of any City in Oklahoma by the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals
$47 Million in flood control projects – “We had as much rain hit Bixby over the past Labor Day Weekend (48 hour period) since I have been the service hydrologist (1997). It is a testament
to the drainage improvements made in Bixby that no houses were flooded with this volume of water falling in a short period of time.”
Al Hong, Service Hydrologist, National Weather Service, Tulsa, Oklahoma
$17 Million in Sanitary Sewer Projects
$8 Million in Potable Water Projects
Removal of approximately 1,470 Acres from within the flood plain by flood control projects
Widening of Highway 64 (Memorial Drive)
Widening of Highway 67 (151st Street)
Widening of 151st Street that is now advertised for bids
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Charter Member of the Rotary Club of Bixby, 2000 to 2009
Member of the Optimist Club of Bixby, 1989 to 2009
Member of the Bixby Historical Society
Member of Bixby Downtown Church of Christ
COMMUNITY AWARDS
Recognized by CNNMoney.com as the 67th Best Place to Live in America in the August 2009 edition of Money Magazine.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Joe Williams, Former City Councilor/Mayor, City of Bixby, Ph.: 918 629-5083
Tom Daniels, Former City Councilor, City of Bixby, Ph.: 918 697-1562
Bud Waldron, Former City Councilor, City of Bixby, Ph.: 918 366-7203
Leonard Martin, City Manager, Carrollton, Texas, Ph.: 214 783-2783
Rick Smith, Financial Advisor, MFS, Edmond, Ok. 405 340-1727