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Flagler Beach chooses new city manager
interview. “You’re expected to jump in and pick up where the last city manager left off.” he was the city manager of Fernandina Beach for the last seven years.
He said he would be able to start within a month, at the latest.
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Sierra Williams Staff Writer
The Flagler Beach City Commission has chosen former Fernandina Beach city manager Dale Martin as Flagler Beach’s new city manager.
The City Commission voted unanimously for Martin after interviewing the four final candidates on July 14.
Martin said that coming into the position, he would rely on the professionalism and experience of the city’s department directors.
“There’s no spring training for city management,” Martin said during the public
The commission held public interviews July 14 in the City Commission chambers before commissioners picked their top two candidates.
All of the commissioners picked Martin as their first choice and James Gleason, of Littleton, Massachusetts, as their second choice, should negotiations with Martin fall through.
Interim City Manager Mike Abels, who was hired in February, said that as a condition of his hiring, he could only stay on until September.
Martin, a U.S. Army veteran from Michigan, has 25 years of local government experience. Most recently,