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Neighborhood Services director to resign
By BRYAN GILMER © St. Petersburg Times, published July 19, 2000 ST. PETERSBURG -- Mike Dove, who as Neighborhood Services chief has supervised the most visible push of Mayor David Fischer's administration, will resign in August to take a job in North Carolina. Dove said he is leaving the $97,000-a-year job on Aug. 4 not because of dissatisfaction with St. Petersburg, but because he wants to spend more time with his family. "I've given up a lot of time with my family to do what I have done (here), and my family has understood completely," Dove said. "I have an opportunity to give a little more to them." Becoming the planning and development director in Catawba County, N.C., northwest of Charlotte, will entail mostly work during normal business hours. Dove's current post requires him to attend neighborhood meetings in the evenings. Plus, his wife's family lives about an hour from Hickory, he said. Dove joined the St. Petersburg staff 20 years ago as a senior planner, rising to become the manager of comprehensive planning, then the assistant planning director. He worked on the city's early neighborhood building efforts. When Fischer created the neighborhood administration job in 1993, Dove was selected. He has led Fischer's effort to increase the number of neighborhood and business associations from 43 to 102 and help neighborhoods decide what they want from the city and write a formal neighborhood improvement plan. Fischer said he has talked Dove out of leaving for a North Carolina job in the past, but this time, Dove was determined. "His heart was set on it," Fischer said. "Foothills, mountain streams have a lot of appeal to Mike. It's one of those life decisions you want to make and I think he's going to be very happy. Mike Dove has been excellent. He is certainly one of the authors of the neighborhood movement."
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