{"id":206058,"date":"2026-03-25T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206058\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:10:06","slug":"city-of-stuart-approves-contract-to-hire-michael-giardino-as-new-city-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206058\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Stuart approves contract to hire Michael Giardino as new city manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city of Stuart has a new city manager. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City commissioners approved Michael Giardino&#8217;s contract Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Giardino, who is currently the deputy general manager at New York&#8217;s LaGuardia Airport, was chosen from more than 80 applicants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He replaces Michael Mortell, who was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/region-martin-county\/stuart\/stuart-city-manager-terminated-following-narrow-vote-at-commission-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fired without cause last October.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Stuart has a new city manager. City commissioners approved Michael Giardino&#8217;s contract Monday night. Giardino,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-206058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206058","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=206058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}