Evanston City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz has announced two administrative changes in the city manager’s office while Assistant City Manager/City Treasurer Marty Lyons continues in his role as Interim Director of Administrative Services.
Evanston City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz has announced two administrative changes in the city manager’s office while Assistant City Manager/City Treasurer Marty Lyons continues in his role as Interim Director of Administrative Services.
Assistant to the City Manager Joe McRae will become interim assistant city manager to support operations in the office during Lyons’ temporary assignment and Web Communications Coordinator Erika Storlie will take on McRae’s role managing the city’s citizen engagement division.
The new assignments will begin Sept. 1 and will continue at least through December.
Bobkiewicz says the recruitiment of a new chief financial officer is likely to take until the end of the year, and Lyons’ primary focus until then will be managing the process to achieve a balanced budget for 2012, and that his regular duties as assistant city manager need to be covered in the meantime.
McRae will assume the day to day coordination of issues in the city manager’s office, manage the City Council agenda preparation process and assist Lyons’ in working on several special projects.
In addition, Bobkiewicz has asked McRae to be the lead senior manager coordinating City of Evanston youth programs. This will include primary staff support to the Mayor’s Youth Task Force, the city’s Youth Council and coordination of the city’s existing programs in the Police, Library and Parks, Recreation and Community Services Departments.
Storlie will manage the Citizen Engagement Division which includes oversight of the city’s 311 operations, community outreach, public information, web and social media services, cable television and the city’s volunteer program.
McRae has been assistant to the city manager since October 2008. Prior to coming to Evanston, McRae served two years as assistant to the village manager in Wilmette and was an ICMA Local Government Management Fellow in Catawba County, N.C.
McRae has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Public Communications from Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio.
Storlie has been Web Communications Coordinator for the city since 2009 and has worked in various positions with the city since 2004. Prior to joining the City of Evanston, Storlie worked for Sony Electronics in San Diego, Calif.
Storlie has a Bachelor’s degree in Organization Behavior from Northwestern University and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration at Northwestern.
In a news release Bobkiewicz praised all three for their work in their primary jobs, and their willingness to take on new duties.