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Published July 18, 2008 10:15 pm - MIAMI, Okla. — The final three candidates for the city manager position in Miami were introduced to the public Friday night in an informal event at the Civic Center.

Miami officials introduce finalists for manager job



Mike Stair 7/18/08 with three mugs

By Debbie Robinson

news@joplinglobe.com

MIAMI, Okla. — The final three candidates for the city manager position in Miami were introduced to the public Friday night in an informal event at the Civic Center.

The three candidates are Mike Randall, 54, of rural Monett, Mo.; Michael Ashcraft, 54, of Olathe, Kan.; and Huey P. Long, 59, of Safford, Ariz.

About 40 people, including many city employees and council members, turned out for the opportunity to meet the finalists.

All three candidates were given tours of the city earlier Friday.

Long, an Oklahoma native, is the current city manager in Safford and former county manager of LaPaz, Ariz.

Long was hired for the first city manager position in Spenser, Okla., when he was 21, he said.

His son, Bryan, is currently the assistant city manager in Lawton.

“All of our family lives in Oklahoma or within an hour-and-half drive from this area,” he said.

A daughter lives in Oklahoma City.

Long said he was impressed with the city and the people.

“I’ve seen the resilience of the community, especially when the B.F. Goodrich Plant closed,” he said. “It’s a community that picked itself up by the bootstraps and didn’t wait for a handout.”

Long graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmund with a degree in elementary education, then went on to earn a master’s degree in theology at International Seminary in Plymouth, Fla.



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