CRESTVIEW — On Monday, the City Council will negotiate the salary for its newest department head position.
City leaders, voting 4-1, tapped Teresa Gaillard, Crestview's Geographic Information System mapping analyst and planning technician, to be the administrative assistant/growth management director.
The job includes overseeing the Community Redevelopment Agency and Main Street Crestview Association official, preparing ordinances, resolutions and council meeting and workshop agendas and evaluating and recommending administrative changes.
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Gaillard has worked with the city since 2003, and has 20 years' experience in varying levels of management, she said. Gaillard has been an engineering computer-aided design drafting specialist and supervisor for companies in Destin, Milton and Pensacola, among others, according to her resume.
Eric Davis, Crestview's planning official in the Growth Management Department; Eddie James, an overnight stocker at Wal-Mart in Destin; and Jason O'Daniels, DeFuniak Springs' code enforcement and environmental compliance officer, also applied for the job.
For three hours, city leaders asked individual candidates to share their views on impact fees, the city's improvement areas, and to rate their own work ethic, among other things.
Gaillard said she's heard some developers say Crestview's "the most expensive place to develop … (but) some say that's the cost of doing business"; that she believes some city employees are inefficient "40 percent of the time"; and that she has an 11 work ethic on a 10-point scale.
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