New City Administrative Services Director

New job has Monney still serving city residents

Patrick Monney ran for public office with a desire to serve his community, winning a spot on the Springville City Council in 2019. When his dream job became available nearly a year and a half later, however, he couldn’t pass it up.

His new job will have him still serving the citizens of Springville, but in a different capacity. Monney was hired on in March as the replacement for Rod Oldroyd, who recently retired after serving for more than a decade as Springville City’s operations manager.

“I’m honored to be able to have this opportunity to continue to serve the citizens of Springville in a different manner,” Monney said. “They elected me to be in the legislative branch, but I am now given the opportunity to implement the things that the legislative arm of the city would like to see implemented, and I am excited to be able to do that.”

His new job carries a new title as well: director of administrative services. In this new role, Monney will oversee the city’s human resources, information technology and administration staff as well as its public relations efforts and the Springville Justice Court.

“I want to continue to take the city from where it is and make it even more great,” Monney said.

Monney brings years of experience in operations management to the city. After graduating from Springville High School and earning a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Brigham Young University, he went to work for a startup company called InsurQuote. During the next 11 years, he was part of a team that grew the company from around a dozen employees to 700.

Hired on to oversee the company’s human resources, accounting and public relations, he became more involved with executive management as the company grew.

One of the difficulties he experienced at InsurQuote was developing a brand and logo for the company. A friend of Monney’s named Morgan Lynch was hired to oversee these efforts, but he had so much difficulty finding resources that would assist a small company at an

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affordable cost, he began thinking about creating a company of his own.

Eventually, InsurQuote was sold, and Lynch created Logoworks, a company through which clients could make requests for assistance and artists and developers worldwide could log in and choose which projects they wanted to work on. Monney again oversaw human resources, accounting and other operations.

“I’ve always done operations, which included the finance, the HR, general operations of the organization,” Monney said.

Logoworks was purchased by Hewlett Packard, and Monney worked elsewhere for a couple of years. He and his wife Heidi were considering moving to Texas, where many of Monney’s family members live, when he received a call from Hal Wing, owner of Wing Enterprises/Little Giant Ladders in Springville.

Wing told Monney he had heard about the potential move and wanted to explore if there was a way to keep him in Springville. After a meeting with Wing Enterpises’ CEO, Monney was hired on as the company’s controller. A year later, he was promoted to CFO.

“I loved that job because it was everything that I loved about watching a business grow,” Monney said. “My gift has been able to take something and to grow it, and do it well.”

After five years, he left Wing Enterprises and did consulting work to help other companies improve their operations. Through that work, he came across a company called Heirloom Clothing, where he was hired along with Bill Woahn, a friend from his days at InsurQuote. The two eventually bought the company, which they still own.

That job doesn’t occupy all his time, and when the job at Springville City came up, he couldn’t resist applying.

“It’s my dream job,” Monney said of his new position. “I’m able to be in my community. I want to give back to my community, that’s why I ran for city council.”

While he’s always believed Springville was a well-run city, he didn’t realize how well until he served on the city council. “This is one rock-solid city, financially, organizationally, I mean it has been done very well,” he said.

He hopes to help city employees receive the training they need and have opportunities to grow their careers within the city. He also wants to increase the city’s presence on social media as well as enhance communication with its residents.

“I hope to be able to take all that was good that Rod Oldroyd brought to the city and be able to build upon that,” Monney said.

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