NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Tampa Bay resident Pamela Brangaccio was selected tonight as the next city manager for New Smyrna Beach after a final round of interviews with the top 5 candidates for the administrative post that pays between $120,00-$140,000 annually.
Dennis Beach, former city manager of Fort Pierce, was chosen as an alternate should the city not be able to reach a contractual agreement with Brangaccio.
Dennis Beach, former city manager of Fort Pierce, was chosen as an alternate should the city not be able to reach a contractual agreement with Brangaccio.
Mayor Sally Mackay had asked that the final vote be a resolution of unanimous support for the top vote getter. Brangaccio got three votes and Beach two.
The mayor and Commissioners Jack Grasty, Lynne Plaskett, Randy Richenberg and James Hathaway then threw their support behind the former Broward County administrator, who left that post in 2007 amid acrimony, and had been working as a consultant.
Brangaccio's "rocky tenure at the helm of Broward County government ended Tuesday just 16 months after it started," as described in a story published in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Oct. 24, 2017, described the working relationship as "doomed by a lack of trust among her bosses on the County Commission."
Brangaccio received almost $150,000 in severance pay under a deal she worked out with Mayor Josephus Eggelletion. Commissioners were scheduled to give Brangaccio her first performance review, and her decision to quit saved her from brutal public criticism and the prospect of being fired, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
No mention of the circumstances that ld to Brangaccio's departure, was made from the dais. Neither the mayor nor the commissioners were willing to answer questions after the meting and Brangaccio quickly left the meeting room.
Here is a link to the full story on Brangaccio's prior employment from the Sun-Sentinel story: Embattled county administrator quits.