New hire to replace retiring manager
Current manager of Plumstead Township to take over in 2020
MONTGOMERY TWP >> When 2020 begins, Montgomery Township will have its fourth Township Manager — and if all goes according to plan, she was named on Monday night.
With a unanimous vote, the township supervisors named Carolyn McCreary to be the Township Manager Designee, and next in line for the top job.
“Every so often, you see ads come up for different communities, but you don’t just jump unless you see a really good one. And
this is a really good community,” said McCreary.
In May the township announced the planned retirement of current Manager Larry Gregan, who first arrived in the township in 2007 as finance director and took over as manager in 2010. Supervisors Chairman Michael Fox said a search has been underway for the past four months with assistance from an outside search firm, a search which resulted in the hiring announced Monday night.
“Everyone knows that Larry Gregan, at the end of this year, is going to ride off into the sunset, and we, the board, began the process of trying to figure out who would be his replacement,” Fox said.
“When it was all said
and done, and we had to figure out who was the person, it was great to see everybody on the board unanimously got behind one particular individual,” he said.
McCreary has been Plumstead Township’s Manager for 11 years, and prior to that post, worked for nine years as finance director in Lansdale Borough, following four years in finance for Upper Gwynedd Township.
Originally from Norristown,
McCreary earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Gwynedd Mercy College, then a master’s in public administration from Villanova University, and now lives in Perkasie, and she and Fox joked she had “crossed the line” back into Montgomery County from nearby Bucks.
“I’m excited to be joining the team,” she said.
Fox read the resolution formally naming McCreary to be Manager Designee as of Sept. 16, and asked for a roll call vote so all five supervisors could voice their support.
McCreary would be the fourth person to hold that position full time: Montgomery’s first full time manager Dan Olpere held that position from 1979 to 1999, then was replaced by then-finance director John Nagel, who was manager from 1999 to 2010, according to MediaNews Group archives.