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September 7, 2012

Donahue named interim city manager

By TAMMIE TOLER Associated Press

PRINCETON — Princeton will welcome a familiar face to the post of interim city manager, effective Oct. 1.

Wanda Donahue, the city’s long-term human resources director, formally agreed Wednesday to accept the post, while Princeton City Council seeks out a permanent successor for retiring City Manager Wayne Shumate.

Shumate will vacate his post on Sept. 30, and despite a summer-long search for a new leader, City Council has not yet identified the next manager to steer Princeton’s future.

Until its members do just that, Donahue will continue to serve as the human resources director, while also assuming the most essential duties of city manager. In exchange, Cassell reported that her salary would increase by a rate of $20,000 annually, pending the hire of a new city manager.

“That’s a bargain. She’ll be doing two jobs,” Shumate said.

One by one, Council members took a moment to congratulate Donahue.

“I think she’ll do a great job,” Wilson said, later adding that instead of congratulations, “I want to say thank you.”

For her part, Donahue said she knew all of Princeton’s employees will help her and their hometown succeed.

“We do have department head sand a staff that are of excellent caliber,” she said, graciously accepting the praise.

In the meantime, Vice Mayor Marshall Lytton returned his attention to Shumate, thanking him for “a job well done.”

“I wish you the very best in your next endeavor, whatever that may be,” Lytton said.

Donahue has worked for the City of Princeton for 38 years. She began in a secretarial role and gradually worked her way through the ranks to achieve her post as the human resources director.

“I do appreciate the support of Council,” she said.

— Contact Tammie Toler at

ttoler@ptonline.net.

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