Stamford finance board’s David Mannis to step down due to plans move to Europe
STAMFORD — A Democratic seat on the Board of Finance will open up next thirty day period.
David Mannis, who has been a member of the board for about two and a half a long time, is resigning as of mid-August, Chair Richard Freedman declared Thursday. Mannis is moving to Europe.
In early 2020, the Board of Representatives appointed Mannis to the Board of Finance to switch fellow Democrat David Kooris, who had resigned to choose over as president of the Stamford Downtown Unique Solutions District. Very last year, Mannis ran unopposed to finish out the relaxation of Kooris’ phrase, which is set to conclude in 2023.
He earlier served one a few-12 months phrase on the Board of Education and was president of the board for portion of his expression.
“There are not lots of men and women who can go to a new position at an advanced age, which is what I did, and uncover a chapter of political activity and be frankly — to my amazement — welcomed by Stamford,” Mannis, 75, mentioned in the course of a Board of Finance assembly Thursday. “I’m off on yet another new chapter. I’m not certain no matter if transferring from New York to Connecticut is a more substantial bounce than from Connecticut to Italy, but we’ll discover out.”
“I hope I gave even a fraction of what I got back again from this knowledge,” he extra.
“It has been an complete satisfaction to serve with you, David,” Freedman mentioned. “You have provided tons of clever counsel in excess of the many years, and you will be sorely missed.”
Any candidates for Mannis’ seat will have to have to go by the Board of Representatives’ Appointments Committee and then confront a vote by the complete board.
The Board of Finance is created up of 6 associates. There are at present 4 Democrats on the board, together with Mannis, and two Republicans.
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