{"id":209488,"date":"2026-03-28T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209488\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:46:07","slug":"stuart-hires-new-city-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209488\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart hires new city manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. \u2014 The city of Stuart has a new city manager. <\/p>\n<p>City commissioners approved Michael Giardino&#8217;s contract Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart hires new city manager<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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":"STUART, Fla. \u2014 The city of Stuart has a new city manager. City commissioners approved Michael Giardino&#8217;s contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,61300,1160,87229,171,173,172,959],"class_list":["post-209488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-florida","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-martin-county","tag-michael-giardino","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-stuart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209488","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=209488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}