Community Open House For City Manager Jim Arndt On July 30 In City Of Paducah

Press release from the City of Paducah:

July 21, 2021

The community is invited to an open house on Friday, July 30 from 3 until 6 p.m. at City Hall to say thank you to City Manager Jim Arndt for his three years serving Paducah.

The community is invited to an open house on Friday, July 30 to say thank you to City Manager Jim Arndt for serving Paducah. The event will be from 3 until 6 p.m. in the atrium of City Hall located at 300 South 5th Street. The Paducah Board of Commissions will be making comments at 5:30 p.m. Community members will be able to make public comments at that time as well. Refreshments will be served.

In January, Arndt announced his plans to move back home to Illinois to be closer to family and to open a business providing local government management consulting, Arndt Municipal Support, Inc. Arndt has been Paducah’s city manager since July 1, 2018.

Mayor George P. Bray said, “Jim Arndt has helped lead Paducah through some very aggressive projects over his tenure. He is an action-oriented, results-driven city manager and has left his mark on our community. We sincerely thank him for his service and although we hate to see Jim go, we wish him the very best knowing that our paths are likely to cross again.”

In reflecting on his three years in Paducah Arndt said, “Serving the Paducah community has been a joy. I am thankful for God’s blessing and His providence as He has led me from a small community in western Ohio more than 17 years ago through four different States to this amazing city in Kentucky.”

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