Dana Shigley tapped as acting City Manager in Anderson

Photo by George L. Winship, Editor

Dana Shigley

In his final act as Anderson’s City Manager, Scott Morgan introduced a resolution Tuesday, July 7, to the city council recommending that Assistant City Manager Dana Shigley be appointed as acting city manager effective Wednesday, July 8.

The resolution was unanimously adopted on a motion by Melissa Hunt, seconded by James Yarbrough.

“Congratulations, Dana,” Mayor Butch Scheafer announced from the podium as the small audience began to applaud.

"Boy, are you in trouble!" added Keith Webster, a big teasing grin obvious beneath his signature brushy mustache.

Shigley, 45, was appointed the city’s executive director of Grants and Redevelopment in August 2002. She was named assistant city manager in October 2003.

In May 2008, she also assumed the duties and responsibilities of City Finance Director and Treasurer, positions that she had previously held with the City of Anderson from 1997 to 1999.

Shigley has a bachelor's degree in accounting from California State University in San Bernardino and a master's degree in public administration from California State University in Sacramento. Last year, she completed the voluntary credentialing program from ICMA, a professional and educational organization for chief appointed managers, administrators and assistants in cities, towns, counties and regional entities throughout the world.

Shigley's husband Paul is editor of the California Planning and Development Report, a periodical on planning and development issues that provides a monthly newsletter and online resources to planners, land-use lawyers, developers, environmentalists, citizen activists and other interested and involved parties.

At the council’s next regularly scheduled meeting, Scheafer announced that Anderson’s five council members will discuss in closed session under personnel matters how they intend to go about finding a permanent replacement for Morgan, who had held the post since October 1997.

Morgan, 52, announced in late May that he would be moving to central Florida to assume a similar role in West Melbourne, a position he had sought to be closer to his wife Nancy’s aging parents, who live in Winter Park, Fla.

Prior to moving to Anderson, Morgan served as chief executive assistant for the County of Orange in the 1980s. Previously, he also served two years as coordinator of Housing and Community Development for the City of Fountain Valley, also in southern California.

Morgan holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in administration, both from the University of California, Irvine.