Photo by Korri KezarHutto city manager
Hutto City Manager Karen Daly joined the city's staff March 2, replacing former City Manager David Mitchell.
Daly has several years of city management experience and has both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in social work and an additional master's degree in urban affairs, all from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her work experience includes time as city manager of Greenville, assistant city manager in Sugar Land and work with the North Central Texas Council of Governments.
What attracted you to this career?
I was doing an internship and had a permanent job at the [North Central Texas] Council of Governments. [The council] was working with census data and grants, and I asked if I could work with that. I ended up working on water and sewer grants for small cities and thought, 'I get this; I can do this.' Then I started looking at city government and thinking, 'This is pretty cool, too.' You still get to help people; you get to provide a positive benefit, but it's a different stage.
Why did you decide to work in Hutto?
I got a call from the [recruitment firm], and I said, 'Let me come see the community. I haven't been to Hutto in a few years, and I know it's been growing.'
