Tampa gets new city attorney
June 18, 2008 at 10:41 am by Wayne GarciaChip Fletcher, a Tampa environmental lawyer who served a brief interim stint on the Tampa City Council that ended in March 2007, was named city attorney by Mayor Pam Iorio this morning. Fletcher will replace current city counsel David Smith, who is leaving to take a job with the GrayRobinson firm, where he worked before joining the city government.
Fletcher’s highest profile work in Tampa involved helping the city negotiate a minimum low-flow agreement with water regulators for the Hillsborough River, which resulted in a greater release of water over the city’s dam and improved environmental conditions in the lower Hillsborough. (Fletcher has an undergraduate degree in environmental engineering from FIT.)
Fletcher will make $150,000 annually.
Bonus cuts: Like Iorio, Fletcher is a Barack Obama supporter. His LinkedIn resume here.
