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Beaumont City Manager Kenneth Williams highlights long career, family ties and hands-on leadership
Summary
On the Beaumont Beat podcast, City Manager Kenneth Williams discussed his 36-year municipal career, his approachability and community roots, and recounted his work on emergency sheltering and leadership roles in professional associations.
Beaumont City Manager Kenneth Williams told the Beaumont Beat podcast that he draws on more than three decades in local government and close family ties in shaping his approach to leading the city.
Williams, who has led the city since Sept. 6, 2022, described starting “at the bottom of the barrel” as a code inspector and working his way through roles including community-development director, public-works director and emergency-management coordinator before becoming an assistant city manager and later a city manager in other Texas municipalities. “I started at the…
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