Alan Grindstaff
Email: *********@********.***
Address: *** ********* **.
City: Crowley
State: TX
Zip: 76036
Country: USA
Phone: 817-***-****
Skill Level: Director
Salary Range: $125,000
Willing to Relocate
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
ALAN L. GRINDSTAFF H:817-***-****
109 Brookbank Ct. C: 817-***-****
Crowley, Texas 76036 **********@*******.***
MANAGER/ADMINISTRATOR
Over 20 successful years as a City Administrator, an ICMA Credentialed Manager performing such key duties as supervising over 200 city employees, implementing and maintaining city budgets, overseeing the funding, as well as building and updating municipal buildings, a Director on the Southeast Texas Groundwater Conservation District Board, Vice President of the Sam Rayburn Municipal Power Agency, hiring, training, and terminating employees, as well as handling questions, concerns, and grievances which occurred. Result-oriented professional who gives A110% to any responsibility... Excellence in financial control and reporting as shown by receiving the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting each year in Jasper City...Excels in quickly identifying and instituting resolution to problems as in reducing over $500,000 overtime pay in one year to less than $50,000 the next year in Union City.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant
ALG CONSULTING
City Manager
CITY OF CROWLEY, Texas, Dallas/Fort Worth Metropolitan Area 2012
* Managed and directed operational changes in Library
* Directed management changes in the Police Department
* Wrote $13.5 million dollar budget
* Operated within budget guidelines ending the fiscal year with reserves
City Manager
CITY OF JASPER, Texas 2006-2010
* Managed and directed preparation and cleanup for Hurricane Gustav
* Managed and directed preparation and cleanup for Hurricane Ike
* Supervised actions during and after two -100 year- floods
* Wrote $25 million dollar annual budget
* Operated within budget guidelines ending each fiscal year with reserves
* Upgrading of sewerage treatment plant reducing annual operating costs by $250,000.
* Met all Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and EPA standards
* Retired two bonds early
* Managed Sanitation Project to front load system and from compaction to push out trailers
* Supervised street improvement project
* Managed the sewerage lift station replacement project meeting all TCEQ standards
* Oversaw power substation upgrades and power line replacements
* Reduced employee turnover from 60% to less than 20%
City Administrator
UNION CITY, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area 2003-2005
* Supervised design and construction of an energy efficient fire station, cost 1.1 million
* Turned around a $350,000 annual deficit at jail to annual profit of $185,000.
* Researched and implemented a financial software program city wide
* Wrote $30 million annual budget
* Operated within budget guidelines ending each fiscal year with reserves
* Reduced police overtime from $500,000.00 to $50,000.00
ALAN L. GRINDSTAFF H: 817-***-****
109 Brookbank Ct. C: 817-***-****
Crowley, Texas 76036 **********@*******.***
City Administrator
CITY OF EPHRAIM, Utah 1986-2002
* Supervised design and construction of two new parks and a baseball four-plex
* Supervised upgrading of drinking water sources, storage, and distribution
* Wrote $8 million dollar budget
* Operated within budget guidelines ending each fiscal year with reserves
* Managed $4 million dollar street improvement project
* Managed financing, design, and construction of new City Hall and Fire Station
* Managed power system with construction of new hydro generation facility
* Wrote new policy and procedures manual
* Wrote police policy and procedures manual
* Managed closing a City landfill meeting all EPA requirements
* Purchased property and got it approved by the EPA for a new landfill
* Wrote an inter-local agreement for the use of new landfill and with Council approval got Sanpete County and all the other cities within the County to sign the agreement for a joint use landfill
* Managed the local airport
* Chairman of the Sanpete County Economic Development Board for ten years
Major, United States Army Reserve 1976 - 2002
* Directed all Medical Operations on Special Forces Team
* Superior Unit Rating while Commander of Medical Group
* Rated Excellent during all Inspector General Inspections while Medical Supply Officer
* Movement Readiness Officer in Medical Brigade
* Operations Officer in Medical Brigade
* Managed field operation exercises
* Director of Patient Administration Division
* Mobilization and Training Officer
EDUCATION
Master of Public Administration
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
CREDENTIALS
ICMA Credentialed Manager
Brigham Young University George W. Romney Institute of Public Management Alumni
Texas City Management Association
Eagle Scout