Finance Director Pauline Sumption Retiring From City Service

FINANCE DIRECTOR PAULINE SUMPTION

RETIRING FROM CITY SERVICE

Sumption’s 23-year municipal profession

consists of years of service to Fast Metropolis & Sturgis;

Leaving to change into CFO of Dream Design Worldwide

RAPID CITY, SD—Metropolis Finance Director Pauline Sumption has introduced her retirement after 15 years of service with the town, concluding a municipal authorities profession spanning the final 23 years.

            Sumption will retire efficient September 22 to change into the chief monetary officer for Dream Design Worldwide, Inc. of Fast Metropolis.

            “After 23 years in municipal authorities, it’s time for me to ‘stay within the uncomfortable’ as I name it, in order that I can develop each personally and professionally,” stated Sumption.  “It’s been a pleasure and I’ve made some lifelong mates by the work I’ve finished right here and the time I’ve spent right here.

            “Working in metropolis authorities is a method to give again to your neighborhood and in my new function, I’ll nonetheless be giving again to the neighborhood as Dream Design is closely invested within the progress of the neighborhood and space by the event of quite a few initiatives.”

            A local of Yankton and a graduate of Northern State College in Aberdeen, Sumption started her municipal profession in Sturgis in 1999.  She stated working in municipal authorities nearly didn’t occur after she utilized for the place with the Metropolis of Sturgis.

           “I obtained a rejection letter from Mayor (Cliff) Linn and I assumed that was that.  However then he referred to as a few week or so later eager to rethink after which he employed me.”

            Sumption was employed by Fast Metropolis Mayor Jim Shaw in 2007 as deputy finance director.  She turned Metropolis finance director in 2010, overseeing the division through the mayoral administrations of Alan Hanks, Sam Kooiker and Steve Allender.

            Sumption has seen quite a few adjustments in her municipal authorities profession, particularly in Fast Metropolis.  Her division oversees the budgets of 12 departments, two greater than when she began in 2007.  She has witnessed various technological advances and authorities efficiencies which she says “satirically has diminished the quantity of in-person interface with the general public as a result of they’ve extra choices for making funds, make inquiries, and so forth.”.

             Mayor Allender shared his appreciation for Sumption’s work.

            “Pauline has devoted her skilled life to serving the general public, first to the individuals of Sturgis and for the final 15 years, the individuals of Fast Metropolis,” Mayor Allender stated.  “Pauline has impressively addressed the challenges that include being the chief monetary officer for South Dakota’s second-largest metropolis.  She has approached day by day of her service to our neighborhood and its residents with dedication, dedication and the very best diploma of professionalism – sustaining a essential eye to the town’s funds, finances and general monetary well-being.  Given her talents and her dedication, it’s no shock she was acknowledged this 12 months because the Finance Officer of the Yr for South Dakota by the South Dakota Authorities Finance Officers Affiliation.

            “I’ve appreciated her dedication, her steering, her spirit of teamwork and dedication and her friendship.  I’m grateful and grateful for her service and need her all the very best.”

            In June, Sumption was named Finance Officer of the Yr for the state by the South Dakota Governmental Finance Officers’ Affiliation. She is previous president of the South Dakota Municipal League Board of Administrators, the South Dakota Governmental Finance Officers’ Affiliation and the regional Black Hills Space Finance Officers Group.

            Mayor Allender signifies the town’s choices might embody naming an interim finance director whereas partaking in an in depth course of to fill the finance director place. Anybody within the place can go to the Metropolis’s web site at rcgov.org or contact This e-mail deal with is being protected against spambots. You want JavaScript enabled to view it. with questions.