Petersburg City Manager praised for financial growth in final week, interim appointed
The Progress-Index PETERSBURG – The nearly five-year tenure of City Manager Aretha Ferrell-Benavides comes to a close this week, after which she will return to her home state of Texas to fill the same role in the City of Duncanville, a suburb of Dallas. She arrived in 2017 to a Petersburg in disarray. The city had recently discovered that its cash reserves had plunged into the red, sitting at negative $7.7 million months before her arrival, which prompted the hiring of the Robert Bobb Group, a Washington D.C.-based consulting firm to steady the city’s operations. In Tuesday...
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