County Names Amy Patterson County Manager

Collier County Commissioners turned a Budget Workshop into a Special Meeting in order to select the new County Manager. The six candidates, who had already met with Commissioners privately, shared their vision with the public at the bi-weekly BCC Meeting on June 14th.

Commissioners were quick to point out that they really couldn’t make a wrong decision Commissioner McDaniel said out that all six candidates are “certainly qualified,” and mentioned the “extremely difficult decision and extremely arduous process” that Commissioners must follow, noting that “we are not allowed to have discussion outside a public meeting” on the various candidates.

Commissioner Saunders reiterated his comments from Tuesday’s meeting by saying the six candidates made it so that the Commissioners wouldn’t be making a bad decision – they were all exceptional. With that comment, Saunders nominated Amy Patterson. Solis seconds. Taylor, LoCastro and McDaniel concur and Patterson is named County Manager with a 5-0 vote.

Patterson has been working for the county nearly 22 years and was named acting County Manager with the resignation of Mark Isackson. Patterson was born and raised in Collier County and worked under four previous county managers, taking leadership skills from each. Patterson looks to “cultivate and empower talent and build the bench back on the county workforce, develop sustainable policy, enhance community relationships and community engagement, safeguard the public’s trust and preserve and protect the character of Collier County.”