{"id":11302,"date":"2025-10-19T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11302\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:32:07","slug":"public-information-manager-orlando-mayor-spokespersons-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/11302\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Information Manager Orlando Mayor Spokesperson&#8217;s Salary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Papagni, Public Information Manager and Spokesperson for Mayor Buddy Dyer at the City of Orlando, is a high-paid city employee.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Papagni manages public information and safety education programs, as well as serving as the spokesperson for the Mayors Office.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-224573 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ashley-Papagni3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Public Information Manager at the City of Orlando - Ashley Papagni\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"  \/>Papagni is responsible for responding to news media inquiries (but she often does not respond); composing newspaper articles, radio scripts, televisions scripts, and press releases for Mayor-related activities; and developing, directing, and implementing Mayor and City related programs.<\/p>\n<p>Per a recent West Orlando News public records request, Ashley Papagni makes $119,600.00 of base pay on an annualized basis.<\/p>\n<p>According to the records provided by the City of Orlando, the following are examples of work performed by the Public Information Manager position:<\/p>\n<p>Develops, plans, and composes news items, newspaper articles, stories, bulletins, speeches, reports, letters, and radio and television scripts, communicating on behalf of the Mayors Office in public information matters.<br \/>\nDevelops and maintains a positive community and media relations through frequent contact with the community, business and media personnel.<br \/>\nDesigns, develops, and updates website content, including but not limited to, press releases, current events, training, operations, and safety\/prevention information.<br \/>\nActively seeks grants for the City of Orlando, coordinates the flow of information to the proper personnel, reviews grants prior to submission, monitors and approves all grant expenditures prior to purchase, monitors grants, and ensures timely and accurate reporting of information to the issuing agency.<br \/>\nMay supervise and\/or coordinate the work of City Employees.<\/p>\n<p>The records also listed the following \u201cKnowledge, Skills and Abilities\u201d necessary for the Public Information Manager position at the City of Orlando:<\/p>\n<p>Knowledge of grant administration.<br \/>\nSkilled in public speaking, making presentations, conducting workshops, and presenting ideas clearly and concisely in writing and\/or verbally.<br \/>\nSkilled in research techniques, report generation, and project management.<br \/>\nSkilled in grant research and writing and proposal development.<br \/>\nSkilled in the operation of a van pulling a trailer.<br \/>\nAbility to write and produce clear and concise reports, publications, memoranda and letters.<br \/>\nAbility to handle numerous assignments simultaneously and deal with frequent interruptions.<br \/>\nAbility to independently plan, initiate, and complete assignments.<br \/>\nAbility to organize and supervise activities of staff and volunteers.<br \/>\nAbility to research and find solutions to problems.<br \/>\nAbility to analyze and interpret factual data necessary to render opinions, decisions, and direction for grants and applicants.<br \/>\nAbility to use mathematical formulas; to add and subtract totals, multiply and divide; and apply basic algebra and geometry.<br \/>\nAbility to design pamphlets and create props and visual aids used in presentations.<br \/>\nAbility to operate a personal computer and software programs, camera, public address system, and other equipment needed to make presentations.<br \/>\nAbility to establish and maintain effective working relationships with City employees, elected City Officials, neighborhood leadership and residents, area businesses, and community and social service agencies.<br \/>\nAbility to work evenings and weekends.<br \/>\nAbility to work in inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>Is the Public Information Manager salary in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlando.gov\/Our-Government\/Mayor-City-Council\/Buddy-Dyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayors Office<\/a> worth it for taxpayers? <a href=\"https:\/\/westorlandonews.com\/orlando-mayor-buddy-dyer-executive-staff-salaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Check here for more salaries of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer\u2019s executive staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashley Papagni, Public Information Manager and Spokesperson for Mayor Buddy Dyer at the City of Orlando, is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8132,187,10625,1375,139,141,10626,140,10627,10628,6123],"class_list":{"0":"post-11302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-buddy-dyer","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-employees","11":"tag-mayor","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-mayor","15":"tag-orlando-news","16":"tag-paid","17":"tag-salary","18":"tag-taxpayers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}