{"id":2012626,"date":"2023-08-25T22:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T02:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newport-beach-promotes-community-director-to-assistant-city-manager\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T22:37:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T02:37:05","slug":"newport-beach-promotes-community-director-to-assistant-city-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newport-beach-promotes-community-director-to-assistant-city-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport Beach elevates Community Director to Assistant City Manager."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewport-beach-promotes-community-director-to-assistant-city-manager%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012626&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>City of Newport Beach Promotes Community\u2063 Development Director\u2064 to Assistant City Manager<\/h2>\n<p>A community development \u2064director\u2062 for the \u200cCity of Newport Beach \u200dhas\u200b been promoted to\u2062 serve as one of two assistant city managers, according\u2062 to an Aug. 22 press release \u200dissued by the city.<\/p>\n<p>Seimone Jurjis has\u2062 served \u2062as a director for the city since 2017,\u200b and will continue his work in that role, while managing special projects as an \u2064assistant to \u200bthe city manager, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evacuations-after-train-carrying-hazardous-materials-derails-in-pennsylvania\/\" title=\"Pennsylvania train derailment prompts evacuations due to hazardous materials.\">press\u2062 release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSeimone has been a tremendous asset to\u2063 the City management team for many \u2064years,\u201d said City Manager Grace Leung in \u2062the release announcing\u200c his promotion. \u201cThis new role \u200bwill give him a higher\u2064 level of management responsibility and oversight to help carry out \u2063the City Council\u2019s vision and direction for Newport Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related Story<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/newport-beach-to-join-2024-rose-parade-for-the-first-time-since-2006-post-5454830\">Newport Beach to Join Rose Parade for the First Time Since 2006<\/a><br \/>\n    <br \/>\n    <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/9\/2023<\/span>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr. Jurjis\u2014who lives and was raised \u200bin the City of Orange\u2014currently \u2063oversees a staff of 60 \u2062managing the city\u2019s General Plan\u2014which provides goals and \u2063policies to determine how it can grow\u2014as well as\u200c property and environmental \u200dregulations.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:220px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Seimone Jurjis has been promoted to be the second assistant to the city manager\u2062 of Newport Beach, Calif., on Aug. 22, 2023. (Courtesy of the\u200c City of Newport Beach)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe department has\u2062 become more efficient\u2062 and streamlined in recent years under [Jurjis\u2019s] \u200bleadership,\u201d city officials said, including\u2063 the implementation \u200cof online permit services\u200d and a reworked program for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newport-beach-promotes-community-director-to-assistant-city-manager\/\" title=\"Newport Beach elevates Community Director to Assistant City Manager.\">accessory dwellings\u2014small housing units located<\/a> on the same lot as a single-family home\u2014also known as ADUs.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jurjis has a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from California State University\u2013Fullerton and is a licensed civil engineer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-claims-she-was-raped-repeatedly-by-epstein-and-maxwell-in-front-of-her-son\/\" title=\"Woman Claims She Was Raped \u2018Repeatedly\u2019 By Epstein and Maxwell In Front Of Her Son\">real estate broker<\/a>, and certified building official, according to the \u200dpress release.<\/p>\n<p>Before his role as a director, he was the city\u2019s chief building official since\u2064 2011.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u2062 the \u2063city,\u200c Mr. Jurjis has \u201cmore than 30 years of experience in both the private and public sectors\u201d\u2063 and \u200dalso worked as the president and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/audit-michigan-may-have-paid-billions-in-fraudulent-jobless-claims-gretchen-whitmer-administration-hit-with-kickback-allegations\/\" title=\"Audit: Michigan May Have Paid Billions in 'Fraudulent' Jobless Claims; Gretchen Whitmer Administration Hit with 'Kickback' Allegations\">chief operating officer<\/a>\u200d for a real\u2063 estate company that specialized in\u2062 entitlements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>projects and assisting the city manager. Jurjis&#8217; promotion reflects his dedication and expertise in community development, and his new role as assistant city manager will allow him to contribute even more to the growth and progress of Newport Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1297,"featured_media":2012627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}