Marco Island City Manager Bill Moss’ credentials with the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) have been renewed.
Marco Island City Manager Bill Moss
The ICMA is considered to be the premier local government leadership and management organization. The ICMA credentials are considered to be coveted by city and county managers and local governments worldwide.
The ICMA was founded in 1914. The ICMA states its mission is to “create excellence in local governance by advocating and developing the professional management of local government worldwide.”
City managers do not have to be licensed or certified for their position.
Approximately nine years ago, the ICMA drafted a credentials criteria for city and county managers to become credentialed.
Managers are recognized by the ICMA Voluntary Credentialing Program through a peer review credentialing process. A member’s status can be reviewed for renewal each year.
Members who participate in the program can earn an ICMA Credentialed Manager designation that is granted by the ICMA Executive Board. The ICMA said local governments and progressive communities view their credentialed managers with distinction.
A member has to have a combination of education and experience. They have to have a minimum of 40 hours of learning experience and training and abide by the city manager’s code of ethics.
Managers getting credentials have to quantify the expertise they bring to their municipalities and counties.
The ICMA states a professional local government manager also has to adhere to high standards of integrity and commit to a lifetime of learning and professional development.
The credentialing program also helps ICMA members to focus on their professional experience and development.
Moss said he was one of the first 75 managers in the United States to be credentialed by the association.
The ICMA has 8,200 members. Only 964 are credentialed managers. Approximately 100 are in Florida.
ICMA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Comments » 18
shadow writes:
another joke...bill being recognized by anyone other than al capone is amazing.....the ICMA must truly be a sham organization.....maybe they should ask the citizens that he represents.
ba10da69 writes:
Come on people this man is a joke,he needs to be voted out of office so we can hire someone to look out for the people of Marco Island , not just his own rear.Moss how is your buddy Reinke doing,is he still crying in his beer over his turn down again.Take him to a strip club and make him feel better,maybe he will come back with better look on his face besided the feces eating grin he always has .
optomist writes:
Moss writes his own 22 page evaluation, the puppet council aproves it despite Kiester's protest, and Moss sends it on to the club. This is about as meaningful as a Doctrate in Divinity from a mail in sham school. How could any normal person write 22 pahes of glowing praise about himself?
ba10da69 writes:
True very true.... he did write Mr Reinkes's also hmmmm
bbyrone46 writes:
I wonder if Lisa Douglas was the conduit for this story to Ed Bania? Is this another attempt by Moss at self-glorification? What a political animal he has turned out to be. Oh, but this organization forbids it's membership to participate in politics. If they knew he was a political operative he would never have received this certification. We need POPs to pass now more than ever.
Chase100 writes:
So? This clearly was not a job evaluation where the mananger would have received flunking grades. Go POP! It's just another one of those "look good" awards the city manager association creates for its membership.
Chase100 writes:
Oh, please editors, take his smug looking mug off the site. I'm trying to eat lunch here!
ResortPhoto writes:
If you are as sick as this lying,poor excuse for a public official as I am - why not do something about it. Since the ICMA credentials are so coveted, maybe letting ICMA know what this guy has been up to can help. Here's the ICMA website.
http://icma.org/main/bc.asp?bcid=40
On a side note- The S.Heathwood water treatment facility is still being used as a staging/dump area despite the fact we were promised at April 23rds council meeting that all staging activity would end within 30-45 days.
There's a couple ethics violations right there on your coveted ICMA credentials Mr. Moss
1Paradiselost writes:
I am happy to see that Mr. Moss received his award. This will make it much easier for him to find a new job when he is finally fired!
conchsoup writes:
Well done Bill. Obiviously you have achieved this recognition for your outstanding professionalism.
You can almost measure how important this is by how much breast beating it invokes by the CAVE dwellers.
The vast majority of the Island is certainly proud of you. Keep up the good work.
Jojo writes:
This article has to be a joke. I was close to losing my breakfast when I saw his ------------grin
in the paper. What a joke he has become. He is a self-serving idot.
15yearsmarco writes:
Conchsoup,
You must be a cave dweller if you think a vast majority of Marco Island is proud of Mr. Moss.
barfieldfly writes:
Ya, Fidel Castro has received a bunch of coverted awards too.
sorry didn't mean to insult Castro.
ba10da69 writes:
What the hell is a CAVE dweller.Conchsoup must be his wife or Mr Reinke,nobody else likes him.
businessguymarco writes:
I don't believe this! Ed Bania kissing up to Boss Moss? Bania, you beter not sell out like the others have. We won't stand for it!
shadow writes:
bill moss canot get a job in another city and he knows it....what would his resume read..."i took a beautiful place, disrupted it completely, all roads at the same time, dug the big dig...albeit it was a late delivery, bought police cars (26), rented a motorcycle, upgraded police cars to SUV's for all the hurricanes that come through, built a jail/council chambers(that holds 100 for meetings), did not develop the glon property to the park it was promised, bought a new fire truck, gave a 20% increase to firefighters and had no idea how to pay for the increase, plans on rebuilding the winterberry bridge, expanded capt brien's to beyond capacity, got hideaway to pay for a traffic light at kendall, got the anchoring ordinace passed and all the while filled out his own report card..A+...with tuckers help....and ....bought marcoman! what a fiasco.
lutherdog writes:
Bill Moss continues to do his best to drive the middle class off Marco Island. He epitomizes corruption, arrogance and holds the residents of the island in contempt. Time to allow resident's to vote on POP's petition to make the City Manager accountable to the taxpayers, not the special interest groups. Moss should do the ethical thing and resign, NOW!
strike3 writes:
van, you hit the nail right on the head. What was he thinking?
lutherdog also with great comments. We already have the federal government beating on the middle class so we do not need the same beating at the local level. I see resignation in mosses future. Anyone else see it?
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