We have a new City Manager!

Denzel Maxwell (Courtesy Photo/Lake Oswego)

The LO Review announced that Denzel Maxwell has been hired as Lake Oswego's new City Manager. His tenure will start on Oct. 5.

Checking his LinkedIn bio, I learned:

• Maxwell is currently the assistant city manager for the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, where he’s worked since March 2023.

  • Big change: Fort Collins, Colorado is significantly larger than Lake Oswego in both population and geographic land area. Fort Collins population is around ~171,700 vs. LO's 40,400. Fort Collins functions as a major standalone college town and regional hub, while LO is primarily a suburban town.

• Before that he was the assistant to the city manager of Corona, California in Riverside County.

• Prior work experience in San Antonio and Houston, Texas as well.

• B.S. in Economics from Oklahoma State University (another OSU than the Beavers)

• Master of Public Administration from Texas Tech University.

• He and I have a shared connection, Lynn Peterson (our Interim City Manager). She's the best mentor for this job he could have!

We hope that our new City Manager will:

Continue the collaborative approach that Lynn Peterson has demonstrated working with our neighborhood.

And that he'll implement her "Good Neighbor Policy"

• https://www.oldtownlakeoswego.org/post/interim-city-manager-lynn-peterson-s-collaborative-approach-working-with-neighborhoods-in-lo

He'll lead the City staff to continuously improve and work less in silos and more as an integrated team.

He'll come for a walk about in our Old Town neighborhood to learn about our history working with the City and our problems and priorities.

https://www.oldtownlakeoswego.org/post/how-can-we-work-together-to-balance-public-access-and-neighborhood-livability-at-george-rogers-park

And that he'll love living in LO as much we all do. Welcome City Manager Maxwell.

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