Stillwater: Community development director is hired

Jason Zimmerman, interim assemblage improvement manager successful Stillwater, is dropping the “interim” from his title.

Zimmerman, who has served arsenic the city’s part-time interim assemblage improvement manager since February, has been hired for the imperishable position.

Jason Zimmerman (Courtesy of Jason Zimmerman)

He volition beryllium transitioning to the caller presumption during the remainder of July and August and volition commencement full-time Sept. 2. His wage volition beryllium $158,538.

Zimmerman, 52, of Minneapolis, has worked arsenic a planner for HKGi since January 2024. He antecedently worked arsenic the readying manager and arsenic a planner for Golden Valley.

Stillwater City Administrator Joe Kohlmann said Zimmerman impressed officials with his “can-do attitude” and quality to “address issues head-on.”

“Jason is an articulate nonrecreational who has demonstrated a beardown committedness to the betterment of Stillwater,” Kohlmann said. “He gets on precise good with coworkers, elected officials, and members of the public.”

Zimmerman grew up successful Waconia, Minn., a agrarian assemblage westbound of Minneapolis, and said “Stillwater has that aforesaid small-town feel, but with an oversized interaction connected the surrounding country owed to its past and gully for visitors.”

“I’m looking guardant to helping seizure that enthusiasm and consciousness of pridefulness arsenic we enactment to update and amended policies, procedures, and a shared imaginativeness for the future,” helium said. “Stillwater seems poised to cement itself arsenic a premiere city, and I’m excited to beryllium a portion of that.”

Zimmerman has a master’s grade successful metropolis readying from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s grade successful economics from Carleton College.

In his spare time, helium enjoys moving ultra-marathons — “50 miles, 100 miles and adjacent immoderate that are implicit 100 miles,” helium said. “The longest region I’ve ever tally astatine 1 clip is 180 miles. That was successful Moab, Utah. That took a small much than 4 days. There was immoderate slumber sprinkled successful there.”

He and his wife, Amie DeHarpporte, person 4 children and galore household pets.

Tim Gladhill, who antecedently held the position, left Stillwater successful August 2024 to go assemblage improvement manager successful Brooklyn Park.

Danette Parr, the assemblage improvement manager successful Maplewood, was hired successful November to bash the job; she resigned effectual Dec. 31. Parr, who returned to her occupation successful Maplewood, said Monday that Stillwater “wasn’t the acceptable (she) was looking for and, unfortunately, sometimes you conscionable don’t cognize that until you get there.”