Seelhammer hired as Coconino County manager
Arizona Daily Sun
Coconino County’s next top manager won’t be coming with a recent background in county government.
But Cynthia Seelhammer, who was hired Wednesday by supervisors as the next county manager, certainly knows Arizona municipalities. Since 1994, she has worked for five of them: Queen Creek, Phoenix, Tusayan, Maricopa and Globe.
Seelhammer will take over from interim man-ager Mike Townsend, who succeeded Steve Peru after Peru’s retirement in November 2011. A starting date has not been set.
Townsend, Seelhammer and three others were finalists in a county manager search that came to a head late last month when all five finalists were brought to Flagstaff for interviews and a June 24 public open house.
At that meeting, Seelhammer began a brief presentation with a children’s story that described how to think about issues a little differently, then received multiple questions.
She vowed to listen to what the public was saying, solve problems and send out a weekly report to anyone interested that would describe what she was doing, as she did at an earlier job.
