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Marla P. Marcinko
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Ms. Marcinko has to deal with a unique situation on her Borough Council. The Council operates
with a five to four split. Certain members definitely do not like Ms. Marcinko, but only because
they wish to control her actions, but cannot. Even faced with such circumstances, she is
extremely fair to all elected officials and is very thorough in her communications and responses.
Ms. Marcinko has experience with the public. She interacts with residents quite well, especially
people who are upset or angry. Before Ms. Marcinko came to the Borough, Ms. Evans and her
fellow Council members received several complaints every day. Once Ms. Marcinko took over
Council members stopped receiving such complaints because she and her staff took care of the
residents’ issues. In this respect, she is definitely customer service oriented.
Ms. Marcinko can solve problems. She has a knack for examining an issue and figuring it out by
working with others to identify solutions. At times, accomplishing any task in Wilkinsburg
seems to be difficult, but Ms. Marcinko does her best with what she is given and understands she
cannot force her elected officials to always do what is best. She provides the Council with
excellent recommendations and her opinion about what actions should be taken then leaves the
decision up to them.
Local governments are not necessarily innovative entities, but Ms. Marcinko definitely is an out
of the box thinker. With Council’s help and approval he has created and implemented shared
service agreements which no one else had previously tried in the State. Wilkinsburg would
definitely not being participating in such programs without Ms. Marcinko. The Borough shares
its garbage services with Pittsburg, saving the residents enormous amounts of money. Also, fire
services have been expanded, and Wilkinsburg has joined forces with Pittsburg in this area. She
was the key to ensuring that this very difficult and laborious process was successfully completed.
Some Council members may have a different opinion of Ms. Marcinko than Ms. Evans.
However, those opinions would have nothing to do with her job performance, only politics.
To the best of Ms. Evan’s knowledge, Ms. Marcinko has not been involved in any type of
controversy. She is not aware of anything in her background that would cause embarrassment to
a future employer. If Ms. Marcinko does leave, she will be sorely missed.
Words or phrases used to describe Marla Marcinko:
Loyal,
Diligent,
Committed,
Intelligent,
Strong, and
Good sense of humor.
Strengths:
Has a vast amount of knowledge in government, and is a top notch professional.
Weaknesses: Ms. Marcinko focuses on accomplishing her tasks and is not the type of person to
be out and about in the community. She leaves that task to her elected officials.
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