Mr. Weaver has retired from a career of over twenty years in local government planning, community development, and city management. He has served as a professional planner for cities, counties, and councils of governments, as an executive director of a regional planning council, as an executive director of an urban county housing authority, and as a city manager or local government chief executive officer under the council-manager form of government.
Mr. Weaver possesses relevant successful experience in overall strategic and management as a chief executive officer or city manager of several local government entities and their departments and functions including: police, fire, public works, public utilities, parks and recreation, housing, social services, deep-sea ports and airports.
Mr. Weaver also possesses professional experience in: personnel management, training and development, labor relations, collective bargaining, and wage and salary administration; governmental accounting, public financial, and budget administration; strategic planning, land use planning, community and economic development planning, and public facilities planning; marketing, and personal sales; public, community, and intergovernmental relations; lobbying several different state legislatures and congressional delegations; and reporting to and supporting several elected governing bodies and their advisory commissions and committees.
Mr. Weaver holds a Bachelor or Science degree in Community Service and Public Affairs from the University of Oregon with a major in local government public administration and a Masters degree in City Management (M.C.M.) from East Tennessee State University. Mr. Weaver has completed graduate course work in public administration and planning at Lewis and Clark College and Portland State University. He is enrolled in the doctoral (Ph.D.) program in Leadership Studies at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. His area of research is in the Leadership of Sustainable Community Development.
Mr. Weaver has served as a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the University of Alaska Anchorage teaching urban planning and public administration in the graduate program in public administration. He has also been a guest lecturer at Alaska Pacific University, Lewis and Clark College, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon in the areas of planning, community development, and public administration.
Mr. Weaver has provided consulting services to cities in the areas of strategic planning, public facilities management, systems development charges, environmental planning, and public finance.
Mr. Weaver has been involved in economic development efforts as a professional planner, city manager, and community leader. He helped a city receive the Governor of Tennessee's Three-Star Award for the development of an industrial park and economic development plan. He organized a county-wide chamber of commerce in Skamania County, Washington. He served as President of the Seldovia, Alaska Chamber of Commerce and a Board Member of the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Weaver is a member of the International City/County Management Association (I.C.M.A.) and has received the designation as a Retired Credentialed Manager (ICMA-RCM). He is also a member of the Congress for New Urbanism (C.N.U.) and the American Planning Association (A.P.A.).
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