The Assistant City Manager serves as a senior member of the City’s executive leadership team, supporting the delivery of leadership, coordination, and administrative oversight across city departments and programs. Primary responsibilities include organizational design, capital allocation strategy, legislative support services, strategic guidance of the City’s utilities enterprise, identification of federal, state, and other institutional funding sources, and assisting with special projects as directed by the City Manager.
About the Assistant City Manager
Driven by a commitment to delivering quality services to the communities he serves; Rob Williamson brings to New Port Richey a career defined by executive leadership across the public and private sectors. A Florida native from neighboring Pinellas County, Mr. Williamson has spent more than two decades serving Florida communities in roles that span elected office, utility enterprise management, business ownership, and public-sector consulting.
Mr. Williamson's executive experience includes service as a Chief Executive Officer of a mid-sized water and wastewater utility in the Florida panhandle with annual revenues of $12 million, a capital budget of $29 million and more than $72 million in assets under his direct responsibility while simultaneously serving as Executive Director of a 3-member regional wholesale water utility authority. In addition, his career has included management of a 23-member county insurance trust, ownership and operation of a private business for more than a decade, service as an elected County Commissioner in Northwest Florida; and, for the last four years, performing as a senior advisor and project manager for a nationally recognized public-sector consulting firm working with cities, counties and utilities across the country. Across each of these roles, he has been responsible for organizational leadership, community service, budget development and oversight, consensus building, workforce management, capital planning, and stakeholder accountability. The core disciplines that define effective local government management.
As an elected official, Mr. Williamson was appointed to serve on the Gulf Consortium Board, the statewide body established under the federal RESTORE Act to direct Florida's share of funding for environmental and economic recovery following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. That experience gave him direct exposure to federal grant administration, multi-jurisdictional governance, and legislative affairs at the state and federal level which included the relationship-building and policy navigation required to secure major public investment. During his time in elected office, he secured more than $35 million in combined state and federal funding for infrastructure and environmental restoration projects and led the fiscal process that earned his county its first-ever Distinguished Budget Award from the Government Finance Officers Association.
An active member of professional associations serving local government and the water sector, Mr. Williamson is a member of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), Florida Section of the American Water Works Association, the Florida Rural Water Association, and the Water Utility Council, and serves on the Florida 2051 Committee. Mr. Williamson received his Bachelor of Science from Florida State University and is a graduate of the Water and Wastewater Leadership Institute at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.