{"id":1514,"date":"2013-07-24T14:20:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T14:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2013-07-25T14:21:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T14:21:36","slug":"peter-crichton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/peter-crichton\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 71: County Manager of Cumberland County Peter Crichton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a071
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0July 20
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Peter Crichton
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Peter Crichton grew up in Mars Hill, Maine,\u00a0in a family of six children.\u00a0 Crichton first became interested in public service by attending town meetings with his father at a young age.\u00a0 After receiving his Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Maine,\u00a0 he was an intern for Senator Edmund Muskie in Washington, D.C. and Crichton\u00a0feels that this experience contributed greatly to his interest in public service.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) welcomed County Manager of Cumberland County Peter Crichton to the studio (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Crichton became County Manager of County of Cumberland <\/a>in January of 1999.\u00a0 The Cumberland County Government has over 400 employees, 13 departments and an annual budget of $40+ million.\u00a0 With the support of the Board of Commissioners, Crichton’s approach as the county’s manager has been to think strategically and act as an entrepreneur, to encourage and promote better utilization of\u00a0the county government’s economies of scale and the use of modern technology.<\/p>\n

The Cumberland County Economic Development Department is entering\u00a0its seventh year as New England’s one and only county-based community development program with 100% federal funding (over $12 million dollars that has been invested in communities the past six years through community development block grants).<\/p>\n

Crichton is a member of the board of directors for the Maine Town, City & County Management Association (MTCMA) serving as the chairman of the Communications Committee. \u00a0He is the past president of the Maine County Clerks, Administrators and Managers Association, and is the President of the National Association of County Administrators, in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio, host Steve Woods and County Manager of Cumberland County Peter Crichton discussed how he became interested in public service when he was young and the current struggle of getting young people involved. The two also talked about the regional services offered through Cumberland County, including the new Cumberland County Regional Communications Center, which provides a Public Safety emergency communications center. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}