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Special Council Meeting
STAFF MEMO
Meeting:Special Council Meeting - Oct 16 2023
Staff Contact:Jeremy Allen, Village Manager Department:Manager
TITLE
Consideration of Applicants to Temporarily Fill Vacancy Council Seat 1
SUMMARY:
During the September 21, 2023 Workshop, Council reached a consensus to accept applications from
interested individuals for the purpose of filling the remaining term of Council Seat 1. A new council
member, who will be selected through the qualifying and election process, will be sworn in during the
April 11 Council Meeting. It should be noted, Council decided to retain the discretion to either make
an appointment to fill the Seat or choose to leave it vacant. Additionally, Council acknowledged the
possibility of needing additional time to make a final decision regarding this matter.
Applications Received (in order of receipt):
1.*Ruben Cruz, Jr.
2.Julie Mitchell (Current General Employee Pension Board Member)
3.Harrison Vaughn
4.Vincent James Ciaglia
5.*Jayson French
6.Justin Bosnoian
7.Chloe Bringerud
8.Thomas G. Bradford (Current Environmental Advisory Committee Member)
* Running for Council in the 2024 Election
This document and any attachments may be reproduced upon request in an alternative format by
completing our Accessibility Feedback Form, sending an e-mail to the Village Clerk or calling 561-
768-0443.
BUDGET INFORMATION:
BUDGET AMOUNT N/A AMOUNT AVAILABLE N/A EXPENDITURE AMOUNT: N/A
FUNDING SOURCES: N/A IS THIS A PIGGYBACK:
Yes N/A
DID YOU OBTAIN 3 QUOTES?
Yes N/A
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COMMENTS/EXPLANATION ON SELECTION N/A
ATTACHMENTS:
Seat 1 Council Vacancy Applicants_2023
Thomas Bradford RESUME 050123
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RESUME
THOMAS GILL BRADFORD, III
44 Chestnut Trail Born: Orlando, FL
Tequesta, FL 33469-2148 Health: Excellent
Telephone: Work: NA
Home: 561-744-7640
Mobile: 561-346-6061
Email: Work: NA
Home: tgbradford3@gmail.com
SUMMARY
Local government professional with skills and knowledge acquired through education
and experience with proven leadership in the areas of elected official relations, policy
development, service delivery strategies, administration of service delivery for various
departments, intergovernmental relations, communications, human resources,
budgeting, capital improvement planning, and project management.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Town of Palm Beach, www.townofpalmbeach.com
P.O. Box 2029, Palm Beach, Florida 33480
Telephone: (561) 838-5410
Title: Town Manager January 10, 2015 to February 12, 2018
Deputy Town Manager May 2006 to January 9, 2015
Assistant Town Manager - 02/12/01- May 2006
Acting Town Manager - 06/26/00 to 02/11/01
Assistant Town Manager - 05/01/00 to 06/26/00
Assistant to Town Manager 05/31/85 - 04/30/86
Administrative Assistant - 04/18/83 05/30/85
Administrative Aide - 10/18/82 - 04/17/83
Community Description:
Palm Beach is a world-class resort and home to approximately 9,250 full-time residents,
increasing to 25,000 in the winter. The Town is located in Palm Beach County,
population 1.4 million. Home to active and retired icons of American business and
industry, Palm Beach is a 12-mile
primarily a residential community with aggregate property valued at over $25.5 billion
with the average single-family home valued at about $13.9 million. The General Fund
budget is approximately $97.1 million. The total operating budget of the Town is $288.8
million. Issues dealt with included coastal management issues, including beach
renourishment projects and related budget and taxation issues, potable water quality,
water conservation, and water service provider concerns, redevelopment of commercial
districts in keeping with community standards, parking control issues, aging
infrastructure, including related funding, and an accelerated capital improvement
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program funded by a $54 million bond issue focused primarily on renewal and
replacement of storm water, sanitary sewer, and street lighting facilities. Palm Beach is a
council-manager form of government overseen by the Mayor and five Town Council
members.
Nature of Work and Accomplishments:
As Town Manager:
Successful Public Information Campaign leading to voter approval of $90 Million
GO Bond issue for town-wide conversion to underground to improve safety ,
reliability and aesthetics of utility grid.
Promoted new Deputy Town Manager
Hired new Director of Recreation.
Recommended creation of the Underground Utilities Task Force (UUTF) for
citizen oversight of the Town Wide Underground Project.
Saw Town through two (2) hurricanes Matthew and Irma in one fiscal year (FY
2017) with quick recovery to normalcy and completion of fiscal year in the black
in spite of high-unanticipated expenditures on disaster preparation and post-
storm cleanup.
Oversaw negotiations for firefighter collective bargaining agreement with pay,
retirement plan and workweek adjustments to improve competitiveness, reduce
workforce hemorrhaging and provide labor harmony and fairness.
Police and Fire pension conversion to Defined Benefit Plan to improve
competitiveness relative to market conditions and eliminate previously imposed
uncompetitive provisions.
eliminate draconian provisions previously implemented.
Returned the Coastal Management Plan to true 10 year financial planning
document for transparency and long term planning horizon
Implemented a State Comprehensive Plan compliant Five-Year Capital
Improvement Plan fortransparency and long term planning horizon in so-called
PayGo CIP program.
Refinanced 2010 ACIP bonds saving taxpayers and Worth Avenue property
owners and businesses money.
Recommended and hired Project Manager for the Town wide Underground
Project.
Expanded manpower for right-of-way parking enforcement.
provide consistency to Town communications.
First to recommend extraordinary funding ($2.5 million) for Town Pension plan to
-in self-correcting funding
mechanism that achieves 100% funding.
supplement work of Zoning Administrator and improve efficiency and
effectiveness of Zoning Code compliance.
Memorial Park, Mizner Fountain and Town Hall Square renovation was
completed with celebratory event.
Solved parking inventory issues at Palm Beach houses of worship (Temple
Emanu-El and Bethesda by the Sea Church)
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For Other Town Positions Held:
Appointed by the Town Manager. Assisted with direction, control, and planning of
all Town operations and development of annual operating and capital budgets.
Coordinate parking programs and enforcement activities with the Parking
Enforcement Division of the Police Department, the Planning, Building and
Zoning Department, the Finance Department, and the Public Works Department
Maintenance Division. Served as Chair of internal staff Parking Committee.
Direct oversight of Information Technology Division, Risk Management, and all
aspects of Town telecommunications policy, including wireless
telecommunications, antenna, and towers in accordance with Town zoning
ordinances and the Town's right-of-way management policies. Emergency
Management and Town Docks programs were also assigned responsibilities
when serving as Assistant Town Manager.
Committee to review all site plans, special exceptions, and variance applications.
Review, approve, and issue conditions for all Special Event permit applications
authority.
Review and recommend approval or denial of all special event permits to the
Town Council from the three primary business districts in Palm Beach.
Develop RFP's for insurance underwriting and third party service providers for
self-insurance program in conjunction with the Risk Manager.
Approved all checks, wire transfers, payroll, pension payments, and credit card
purchases of the Town.
Other responsibilities included: contract administration, public works projects
oversight for various capital projects including a new Recreation Center, new
Police Facility, renovation of historic fire station, and numerous storm water
pumping stations, collection and distribution systems; cable television franchise
oversight, administrative oversight of various departments and operations, safety
coordinator for protected self-insured insurance programs, liability insurance
program responsibility, budgetary control responsibilities, Disaster Preparedness
Coordinator, miscellaneous items as requested by the Town Manager.
Special assignments and accomplishments have included:
Served as the Project Coordinator for the Worth Avenue Improvement
Project, a $14.7 million major streetscape project encompassing the
historic high-end retail Worth Avenue Commercial District.
Updated the entire Town Code of Ordinances with oversight by the
Ordinances, Rules and Standards Committee of the Town Council without
use of consulting services.
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Created the Municipal Underground Utilities Consortium of over 30
municipalities in the Florida Power & Light (FPL) electric utility service
area that both negotiated directly with FPL and filed tariff challenges with
the Public Service Commission (PSC) for underground conversion cost
reductions. Successfully negotiated a Stipulated Settlement Agreement
with FPL approved by the PSC resulting in a 25% discount on local
government underground conversions.
Point person overseeing other staff and consultants on town-wide
underground utilities studies and for neighborhood projects to convert
overhead utility lines to underground service using special non-ad
valorem assessments.
Completed a through audit of the Planning, Building and Zoning
effectiveness.
Served as lead staff person for the County Budget Task Force created to
find ways and means to control Palm Beach County spending affecting
property taxes paid by Town property owners.
Oversight and implementation of town-wide Traffic and Parking Study,
recommendations approved by the Town Council including conversion of
all parking meters to kiosks for credit card, and smart phone account
usage and implementation of computer operated video parking
enforcement technology.
Management Plan with a revised Storm Emergency Response Plan.
Conducted management audits of specific departments.
Oversaw Town Hall Space Needs Study.
Analyzed and reported on in-house attorney services compared to
contractual attorney services.
Served on Selection Committees to select consultants responding to
various RFP and RFQ solicitations issued by the Town.
ssigned overview responsibility for the following goals and
objectives committees established by the Town Council: Internal Risk
Management, Organizational Efficiency, Wage and Benefit Program,
Office Utilization, Equipment Replacement Program, Long Range Capital
Improvement Program, Electronic Data Processing, and Internal
Engineering.
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Village of Tequesta www.tequesta.org
P.O. Box 3273, Tequesta, FL, 33469-0273
Telephone: (561) 768-0460
Title: Village Manager - 05/01/86 to 04/30/00
Community Description:
Located in the northeastern corner of Palm Beach County, Florida, Tequesta is a
relatively affluent community that physically consists of two square miles on three
peninsulas all surrounded by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Intracoastal
Waterway and 6,200
with a water service area population of 15,000. It is a full-service community providing
police, fire-rescue, planning, building and zoning services, a water utility, storm water
utility, and refuse and recycling services. Tequesta is a council-manager form of
government overseen by a five member Village Council that annually elects a Mayor
from among its members. The Village Manager is appointed by and serves at the
pleasure of the Village Council.
Nature of Work and Accomplishments:
Chief Administrative Officer for full-service municipality with incumbent duties
encompassing all aspects of local municipal government management, including
police, fire-rescue, water and storm water utilities, and central business district
redevelopment activities and Department of Community Development. The
Tequesta workforce consisted of approximately 70 full-time employees with an
annual operating budget of $14.5 million in FY 2000. Today, its budget is well
over $20 million.
Special assignments and accomplishments included:
Successfully implemented an independent Tequesta Fire-Rescue
Department in 1993 after the proposed plan, prepared by me without use
of consultants, was overwhelmingly approved by 70% of Tequesta voters
in a referendum to eliminate the need to contract for service from Palm
Beach County Fire-Rescue whose costs were unsustainable.
Concurrently negotiated an Interlocal Agreement with an adjacent
municipality to contract for fire-rescue services from Tequesta for ten-year
term further reducing cost to Tequesta taxpayers.
Expanded the potable water treatment facility on two occasions, each
time effectively doubling capacity. The second expansion was the
construction of one of the first reverse osmosis plants in Florida drawing
brackish water from the Floridan Aquifer 1,500 feet below the surface.
Secured the land and oversaw the planning, design, and construction of
the center of the Village.
Created the Tequesta Stormwater Utility to provide the necessary
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system using special non-ad valorem assessments based upon the
amount of impermeable surface on each property.
Converted all charges for refuse and recycling to special non-ad valorem
assessments based upon land use causing all such charges to appear on
property tax bills thereby eliminating delinquencies and the need for
internal billing services.
was burdened with too much commercially zoned property to be
sustained by the population of the region by creating the Mixed-Use
Zoning District that led to the development of all vacant lands and
obsolete land uses within less than 10 years.
Initiated the preliminary plans for a new Village Hall and Public Safety
Complex for Police and Fire-Rescue.
City of West Palm Beach, www.wpb.org
P.O. Box 3366, West Palm Beach, Florida 33402
Telephone:(561) 659-8024
Title: Management Intern February 1982 to October 15, 1982
Community Description:
West Palm Beach is the heart and hub of Palm Beach County and its 1.3 million
metropolitan population. West Palm Beach has a population of just under 100,000, but
soars to 200,000 during business hours. It is the center of commerce and government
was only temporarily abated by the Great Recession. It is a full-service city with a
diverse population of all races and incomes. The City is currently a strong Mayor form of
government but, at the time of my employment, was a council-manager form of
government.
Nature of Work and Accomplishments:
Administrative work performed under the direction of the City Manager. Activities
included budgeting, personnel surveys, audited energy usage and energy billing
procedures, cost/benefit studies for various proposals, equipment/machinery
and rolling stock.
EDUCATION:
Master of Public Administration, May 1980
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, May 1977
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
HONORS:
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Department Assistantship, Department of Political Science Graduate School
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
International City/County Management Association
Florida City and County Management Association
Urban Land Institute
The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
Past Member - Florida Redevelopment Association
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:
University of Alabama National Alumni Association
President
Palm Beach Rotary Club Treasurer
President of the Tequesta Civic Association
Chair of the Tequesta Environmental Advisory Board
Past Member - Board of Directors, Jupiter, Tequesta, Juno Beach Chamber
Commerce
Past Member - Jupiter-Tequesta Rotary Club
Former Chair of Palm Beach United Way Business and Professional Committee
Former Board Member of Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce, Ex Officio
Former member of Town of Palm Beach Retirement System Board of Trustees
PERSONAL INTERESTS: Hobbies include photography, reading, and modern jazz.
CURRENT SALARY: Available upon request, if applicable.
REFERENCES: Highest references available upon request
Thomas Bradford Resume.Doc May 1, 2023
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