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TAB 7
Trib Total Media
August 24, 2005
Budget priority for new manager
by Vera Miller Staff Writer
The new municipal manager of Penn Hills has moved into the position ready to get the 2006
budget process moving.
Marla Marcinko is meeting with department directors this Friday, Aug. 26, to check the status
of their budgets. She believes adoption of the 2006 budget in December is a realistic goal.
Marcinko, who started on Aug. 15, brings 13 years of experience in local government
management. She last served as the borough manager of Zelienople, where she worked for 11
years.
Her first position as a manager was in West Deer Township, which has 11,500 residents.
Marcinko was happy working for Zelienople, a community with 4,100 residents, but she was
looking for a change.
"It was a very difficult to make the decision to leave Zelienople. I was in the community for 11
and a half years and I knew everyone and everyone knew me," she said. "Being the manager of
Penn Hills is an opportunity to meet new challenges and just have different experiences."
Marcinko will soon tour the community with department directors to better know the
community and learn the issues that need to be addressed.
She is impressed with the years of service of many municipal employees.
"The staff is very competent and dedicated," Marcinko says. "There is an impressive collective
years of experience here. It is an incredible asset to the municipality."
Her position in Penn Hills is much different from her two previous positions. Besides managing
those communities, she was responsible for capital planning, finance, and human resources
management.
Her accomplishments in Zelienople include planning and implementing a $5 million water
system improvements project and a $1 million municipal building renovation project and
refinancing the borough's debt, which resulted in $500,000 of savings.
In West Deer, she secured $600,000 in grants and loans to extend public water service to
residents with contaminated private wells and developed a solid waste/recycling plan that
resulted in the average household's bill decreasing by 15 percent.
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