Hailey Mayor Martha Burke has selected Lisa Horowitz as Hailey\u2019s new City Administrator. Horowitz has served the City of Hailey in the role of Community Development Director since January 2015. She is replacing a 14-year veteran of that position, the popular Heather Dawson. Horowitz will assume City Administrator duties effective April 1, 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have always considered it important to \u2018hire from within\u2019\u00a0 <\/span>and with Lisa\u2019s experience and talent, we had the perfect candidate for the job. I look forward to working with Lisa in her new role with the City,\u201d Mayor Burke said.<\/p>\n Horowitz is well-experienced in local government and carries a Bachelor\u2019s of Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois. She has worked for three decades in a variety of progressively responsible\u00a0 <\/span>positions spanning city, county and state government. Nineteen years of her career have been spent in\u00a0 <\/span>local governments in Blaine County, including the City of Hailey. Career highlights include:<\/p>\n \u2022 Steering Hailey over the last 8 years of the great recession and into a period of high\u00a0 <\/span>development activity.<\/p>\n \u2022 Navigating complex annexations for Hailey with substantial open space protection and great strides in workforce housing.<\/p>\n \u2022 Serving at the City of Ketchum over two different time periods, including a major comprehensive\u00a0 <\/span>plan update, reduction in scale of downtown buildings and additional hillside protections.<\/p>\n \u2022 Broad consulting career that included public and private planning projects in Montana and Idaho, with numerous projects in Whitefish, Montana.<\/p>\n \u2022 20 years of partnerships and working relationships in Blaine County resulting in many\u00a0 <\/span>rewarding projects throughout the County.<\/p>\n \u2022 Growth management planning in the greater Seattle metro area during a time of strong\u00a0 <\/span>collaboration between the 30 cities in King County.<\/p>\n \u201cI have greatly enjoyed my local government service, and in particular my last eight years at the City of Hailey. As a longtime Hailey resident, I am deeply committed to the wellbeing of this\u00a0 <\/span>community, and I look forward to serving in the capacity of City Administrator,\u201d Horowitz said.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hailey Mayor Martha Burke has selected Lisa Horowitz as Hailey\u2019s new City Administrator. Horowitz has served the City of Hailey in the role of Community Development Director since January 2015. She is replacing a 14-year veteran of that position, the popular Heather Dawson. Horowitz will assume City Administrator duties effective April 1, 2022. \u201cI have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,78,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-hailey","9":"category-in-brief","10":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17661,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17658\/revisions\/17661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}