LIVERMORE — Livermore can have a brand new metropolis supervisor starting in early June, after the Metropolis Council employed Marianna Marysheva to take over after present metropolis supervisor Ernest “Marc” Roberts retires.
Marysheva was most just lately the assistant metropolis supervisor in Irvine, the place she additionally served a bit of over a 12 months as an interim metropolis supervisor, in accordance with a press launch from Livermore.
“I'm each honored and excited to be chosen as Livermore’s subsequent Metropolis Supervisor,” Marysheva mentioned within the metropolis launch.
“Livermore is actually a exceptional neighborhood, forward-thinking and strategically targeted, with an distinctive high quality of life made doable by shut collaborations throughout organizational traces,” she mentioned.
Marysheva will start her work with Livermore on Could 16, although Roberts will keep in cost by June 3, “to make sure a clean organizational transition,” town mentioned.
Roberts, who has labored for Livermore for 35 years and has been metropolis supervisor for a decade, introduced his deliberate retirement in December.
“The Metropolis Council appreciates Marc Roberts for the various years of service he has devoted to our neighborhood. He set the bar very excessive so far as metropolis managers go,” Mayor Bob Woerner mentioned in an announcement.
Woerner mentioned town had many good candidates for town supervisor position, however the council was impressed with Marysheva’s “excellent credentials and in depth municipal expertise in communities each bigger and smaller than ours,” he mentioned.
“We now have many essential initiatives underway in Livermore and with Marianna’s experience and distinctive set of qualifications, we are going to seamlessly proceed to make progress,” he mentioned.
Marysheva started her government administration expertise in Oakland, the place she was appointed by then-Mayor Jerry Brown to function town’s finances director from 2001 to 2005, in accordance with Livermore.
She then served two one-year stints in cities in Los Angeles County, first because the assistant metropolis supervisor in Lynwood, after which as a finance and administration marketing consultant for Maywood, earlier than returning to Oakland in 2008, the place she served as an assistant metropolis supervisor till 2011, in accordance with her LinkedIn profile and Livermore.
Marysheva additionally labored for 2 years because the city supervisor of Mammoth Lakes, a city of about 8,000 folks within the Sierra Nevada, earlier than going into consulting work from 2013 till 2015. She served because the assistant metropolis supervisor in Riverside till 2018, earlier than heading to Irvine, her LinkedIn profile mentioned.
The Metropolis Council accepted a contract with Marysheva at its assembly Monday. She can be paid a base wage of $305,000 yearly, in accordance with her five-year contract with Livermore.
She’ll even be reimbursed for as much as $15,000 in transferring bills to relocate to Livermore from Irvine, in addition to a complete of $5,000 for journey bills from Southern California for herself and two relations “to find housing lodging throughout the Livermore area,” the contract mentioned.
She will even be reimbursed for as much as $25,000 for as much as six months of “non permanent housing lodging,” in accordance with the contract.
“I look ahead to working with the mayor and Metropolis Council, the management crew and metropolis employees, our residential and enterprise neighborhood, and our many companions to proceed constructing on Livermore’s sturdy basis of success,” Marysheva mentioned.