Pachyderm Club to host Polson city manager
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News from the Lake County Pachyderm Club
POLSON — Mark Shrives, Polson’s City Manager, will be the featured speaker at the Friday, March 28 meeting of the Lake County Pachyderm Club held in the Polson Rural Fire Dept. building on Regatta Road near the fairgrounds. The business meeting begins at noon; social time begins at 11:30 a.m. Brown bag lunches are encouraged.
Shrives became City Manager of Polson on October 15, 2013. He will review his first six months on the job and will also discuss long-term and short-term priorities identified during the recent City Commission work session.
Shrives Mark holds a masters degree in public administration and an undergraduate degree from University of California at Santa Barbara. He also served in the Army for 20 years, retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Then he and his wife Peggy moved to Hamilton, where he started his career in city management. He served as the Hamilton City Administrator for six years and then moved to Creswell, Oreg., where he served as the Creswell City Administrator for nine years. During his time in Creswell, Shrives took one year off and worked in Africa as the U.S. State Department Advisor to the President of the Economic Community of West African States, where he focused on military and political affairs.
Shrives and his wife have six sons and one daughter.
