County Administrator
County Administrator - Merrimack County, NHBoscawen, NH (10/2014-5/2018) Development and oversight for 4-years on the design of an $83 million budget, focusing the moving needs of 10 departments, a Jail Facility, and a 300-bed Nursing Home. He reduced expenses in areas like employee medical, all energy costs, all-the-while was eliminating department “budget-bulging. He negotiated 4-union contracts, continually. We have simplified a cumbersome department budget submission process to make it much more workable. He recreated the grants department directing them to work hand-in-hand with the city and towns of the county; plus, seek out any dollars available for the county operations. Expanded and enhanced employee training programs by making them available to all employees, often funded with grant dollars. He expanded the utilization of the county’s Purchasing Department by creating purchasing policy, applying ethical procedures to all purchasing, credit card policy, bidding procedures, and acquiring acceptance from the BOC; and approve to all these initiatives. He closed-out $46 million in Tax Anticipation Notes TANs; each year. Worked regularly with the county legislative delegation to improve communications and clearly describe the operations to them. He successfully lobbied the Legislature extensively to over-ride a decision on a new Superior Court House offsite and where it was inaccessible to the public by any public transportation means. This effort resulted in a contract agreement between the County, a private builder partner and the State to provide a new Court House and sell it to the State for $15 million, saving the State well over $2 million. He hired a staff attorney to begin writing and reviewing policy and seeking approvals from the BOC; to establish written/approved policy statements. He relocated and made more efficient county departments by moving them onto existing county facilities for cost reductions/efficiencies.
