{"id":196188,"date":"2026-03-18T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196188\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:02:12","slug":"five-facts-about-the-choice-of-a-new-manager-for-this-florida-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196188\/","title":{"rendered":"Five facts about the choice of a new manager for this Florida city"},"content":{"rendered":"

STUART \u2014 The City Commission March 9 picked a 26-year Navy veteran to be the next leader of the city’s roughly 300 employees.<\/p>\n

Michael Giardino, 63, was chosen from among 13 finalists and 82 applicants to be the next city manager. Giardino recently bought a home in Martin County.<\/p>\n

Here are five things to know about Giardino’s selection:<\/p>\n

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The Stuart City Commission regular meeting, March 9, 2026, at City Hall. On the agenda were the Lyric Theatre Centennial Celebration proclamation, a presentation of the Florida Department of Transportation Monterey Road at FEC railroad crossing grade separation project and the selection of Martin County resident Michael Giardino as the next city manager.<\/p>\n

\u220e Giardino must still negotiate an employment contract with the city, and the City Commission must approve it.<\/p>\n

\u220e The City Commission is set to consider the contract March 23.<\/p>\n

\u220e One reason Mayor Christopher Collins liked Giardino is his perceived ability to follow the chain of command.<\/p>\n

\u220e Giardino was selected in a split City Commission vote, with Laura Giobbi and Campbell Rich voting no.<\/p>\n

\u220e Giardino would fill the job held previously by Michael Mortell, who was fired by the City Commission in October.<\/p>\n

More on Stuart: Ex-manager in Stuart provides details of alleged wrongdoing<\/a><\/p>\n

More on Stuart: Split vote picks Navy veteran as next city manager of Florida city<\/a><\/p>\n

Keith Burbank is TCPalm’s watchdog reporter covering Martin County. He can be reached at keith.burbank@tcpalm.com and at 720-288-6882.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Five quick facts about the choice of this Florida city’s manager<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART \u2014 The City Commission March 9 picked a 26-year Navy veteran to be the next leader of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7452,3305,91019,28,30,29,91018,965],"class_list":["post-196188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-city-commission","tag-city-manager","tag-employment-contract","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-giardino","tag-michael-mortell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196188","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=196188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}