{"id":17162,"date":"2022-01-28T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/?p=17162"},"modified":"2022-01-28T16:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:37:30","slug":"brownsburg-town-council-appoints-deb-cook-as-town-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/2022\/01\/28\/brownsburg-town-council-appoints-deb-cook-as-town-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownsburg Town Council Appoints Deb Cook as Town Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Town_of_Brownburg_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Town_of_Brownburg_cropped.jpg 500w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Town_of_Brownburg_cropped-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Brownsburg Town Council<br \/>\nAppoints Deb Cook as Town Manager<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17163\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17163 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deb-Cook-Town-Manager-DSC03536-low-res-1024x748.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deb-Cook-Town-Manager-DSC03536-low-res-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deb-Cook-Town-Manager-DSC03536-low-res-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deb-Cook-Town-Manager-DSC03536-low-res-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deb-Cook-Town-Manager-DSC03536-low-res-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deb-Cook-Town-Manager-DSC03536-low-res-696x508.jpg 696w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deb-Cook-Town-Manager-DSC03536-low-res-1068x780.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deb-Cook-Town-Manager-DSC03536-low-res-575x420.jpg 575w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Deb-Cook-Town-Manager-DSC03536-low-res-1920x1403.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Town Manager Deb Cook Pictured Center &#8211; Council President Travis Tschaenn Left &#8211; Council Vice President Ben Lacey Right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>January 27th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brownsburg Town Council unanimously appointed Economic Development Director Deb Cook as Town Manager at its meeting on Thursday, January 27.<\/p>\n<p>Cook, who has been with the Town of Brownsburg since 2020, will be stepping up as Town Manager immediately, making her the first woman to hold the position, and the only woman to lead a municipality in Hendricks County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeb is a proven leader and the Council was impressed by her extensive knowledge and background in a variety of municipal government fields, from development to public works to quality-of-life services,\u201d said Town Council President Travis Tschaenn. \u201cShe\u2019s an excellent communicator and a true professional who I feel confident will lead our town in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cook brings a notable amount of government experience to the role, having served 19 years for the City of Kokomo. Her roles included working as a Planner\/Community Specialist, Development Manager and ultimately Development Director. In 2012, Cook became the CEO of Kokomo\u2019s Housing Authority.<\/p>\n<p>She holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Indiana Wesleyan and a Master of Public Management from Indiana University. Cook also served as adjunct faculty at Indiana University-Kokomo, teaching undergraduate and graduate-level grant writing classes for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to serving the Town and am excited about the continued progress and development in Brownsburg,\u201d said Cook. \u201cOur commitment to making Brownsburg an optimal place to visit, live and invest will lead to long-term success for our Town.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4318\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brownsburgsentinel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4318 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Facebook-Like-Icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Facebook-Like-Icon.png 476w, https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Facebook-Like-Icon-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the LOGO. GOTO Facebook and &#8220;LIKE&#8221; our Page! Thank You!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>Content &#8212; Town of Brownsburg<br \/>\n<em>The Editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Brownsburg Town Council Appoints Deb Cook as Town Manager January 27th The Brownsburg Town Council unanimously appointed Economic Development Director Deb Cook as Town Manager at its meeting on Thursday, January 27. Cook, who has been with the Town of Brownsburg since 2020, will be stepping up as Town Manager immediately, making her the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1,36,30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general-interest","category-hendricks-county","category-latest-news","category-towncounciil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17168,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions\/17168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsburgsentinel.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}