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City BRIEFLY of McKeesport BRENTWOOD News
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OFFICIALS OF THE BOROUGH OF BRENTWOOD 2018
MAYOR DENNIS TROY
MEMBERS OF COUNCIL Harold Smith, President John Frombach, Vice President A. J. Doyle, Pro Tem Stephanie Fox Pasquale Carnevale Robert Pasquantonio Jennifer George
SOLICITOR GAVIN ROBB
BOROUGH MANAGER GEORGE ZBOYOVSKY, P. E.
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How did we get here? What have we done? What lies ahead? These three questions will be the topics for this and the next few IN Community Magazine articles as we review the past 10 years together. They say time flies when you are having fun. I never realized how accurate this saying is until I celebrated my 10 year anniversary serving as Brentwood’ s Borough Manager. January 1st marked this milestone. 10 Years! It seems like only yesterday I was managing commercial development projects, designing highways, and sizing Stormwater pipes for various engineering companies where I practiced as a civil engineer for nearly 16 years before changing“ careers” or as I like to put it,“ finding my life’ s work” quoting the late great Pittsburgh Steelers coach Chuck Noll. Over these past 10 years I have had the privilege of meeting many residents and community leaders. The majority of which have offered me encouragement, advice, and friendship. This is truly one of the greatest things about living and working in Brentwood; the people. Milestones are a time to reflect on the past years. How did I get here? What has been accomplished? What is next? Let’ s begin the journey with the first question,“ how did I get here?” I think you’ ll see after reading this that it was not“ pure luck” or“ chance” that I ended up in Brentwood.
There were too many moving parts for this to be a coincidence. Let me start by first giving you a little background. I graduated in 1990 with dual Bachelor’ s Degrees in Physics from the University of California, PA( Go Vulcans) and Civil Engineering from
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the Pennsylvania State University( WE ARE!). I immediately began working for an environmental engineering consulting firm and began the process of obtaining my Professional Engineers license. I also began getting involved in my home town of Monessen, PA. I have always been active in various organizations from serving as my Fraternity’ s Vice President( Sigma Tau Gamma) to being elected to student government while at Cal U. While attending Penn State I served as treasurer of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. There are also the many service organizations such as the Elks, Lions Club, and Knights of Columbus. So, it was no surprise to many that I would get involved in some way. Some of those ways included serving as a board member and then Chairman of the Monessen Civic Recreation Authority. That led to being asked to serve on the Monessen Zoning Hearing Board, the Monessen Enterprise Zone Board of Directors, and then eventually being asked to run for Monessen City Council. So at the ripe old age of 27, I ran for City Council. I lost that first election but came back two years later and garnished the most votes and began serving as the youngest member of Monessen City Council. All the while the flames of my passion for public service continued to be stoked. I applied for and was accepted into graduate school.
Working full time as an engineer( 60 + billable hours per week) I attended evening classes and after 5 years, in 2000, I earned a double master’ s degrees in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh’ s Graduate School of Public and
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