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Port Richey manager announces hires for CRA resiliency coordinator and building-department role
Summary
City manager Matthew Coppler announced two new hires: Derek Smith as the CRA coordinator/resiliency coordinator and a recent public-administration graduate to temporarily cover a permit technician vacancy and expand planning and floodplain management capacity.
City manager Matthew Coppler announced the city has hired Derek Smith as the Community Redevelopment Agency coordinator and resiliency coordinator and expects him to start at the end of the month.
“He's coming to us from Clearwater, where he's in their emergency management and has background in some of the resiliency issues that we're going to be facing as well,” Coppler said. Coppler described Smith as a local candidate from the unincorporated area near Port Richey and said he expects Smith to support CRA efforts and the city’s resiliency work.
Coppler also described hiring a recent undergraduate in public administration for a hybrid role the city intends to develop into building inspector, code enforcement, planning, floodplain management and Community Rating System (CRS) responsibilities. Coppler said one of the city’s permit technicians will be out for an extended period, and the new hire will temporarily fill that vacancy and then expand into the planned duties.
Board members expressed support for filling long-open positions. No formal vote was recorded for either hire during the meeting; the announcements were presented as staff updates.
Coppler said both hires are local and interested in long-term public-service careers. He characterized the staffing moves as intended to strengthen the city’s planning, floodplain management and code-enforcement capacity.
