{"id":185446,"date":"2026-03-10T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185446\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:29:07","slug":"city-of-stuart-picks-navy-veteran-as-new-city-manager-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185446\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Stuart picks Navy veteran as new city manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Stuart\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Stuart\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The City of Stuart<\/a> selected a seasoned Navy veteran as its new City Manager on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Selected from a pool of 13 finalists and  82 applicants, Michael Giardino is set to take on this important role in the community.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of Martin County, Giardino is a 26-year Navy veteran. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-community-rallies-20k-to-buy-30-year-pop-warner-coach-a-new-car-winter-park-community-former-players-reunion-football-coaching-legacy-pop-warner-commissioner-emotional-community-tribute-grassroots-fundraiser-local-sports-hero-football-side\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-community-rallies-20k-to-buy-30-year-pop-warner-coach-a-new-car-winter-park-community-former-players-reunion-football-coaching-legacy-pop-warner-commissioner-emotional-community-tribute-grassroots-fundraiser-local-sports-hero-football-side\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida community rallies $20K to buy longtime Pop Warner coach a new car<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently, he serves as the Deputy General Manager at LaGuardia Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Giardino succeeds <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/former-stuart-city-manager-speaks-for-first-time-since-removal-florida-october-29-2025\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/former-stuart-city-manager-speaks-for-first-time-since-removal-florida-october-29-2025\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Mortell<\/a>, who was dismissed without cause in October of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The City of Stuart selected a seasoned Navy veteran as its new City Manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[87230,3305,61300,1160,87229,78016,171,173,172,87231,959],"class_list":["post-185446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-city-leadership","tag-city-manager","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-martin-county","tag-michael-giardino","tag-navy-veteran","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-public-administration","tag-stuart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185446","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=185446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}