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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Reedy retires after
more
than 25 years with city
Interim Assistant City Manager
Ken Reedy is retiring
Aug. 13 after 25 years with the City of Glendale.
By Elizabeth Jackman
Ken Reedy has had the opportunity to help
shape the growth in the City of Glendale since being hired
as the city engineer Feb. 12, 1985.
At one point or another, Reedy, 60, has overseen the engineering,
utilities, field operations, traffic engineering, economic development,
community development, housing, code enforcement, neighborhood
redevelopment, environmental resources and public works departments.
Since May 27, Reedy has been the interim assistant city manager, the
city's second top job after City Manager Ed Beasley. His last day of
work will be Aug. 13.
“I am ready to retire. I think health issues make you realize you need
to take the opportunity to have a life after work,” said Reedy,
referring to a 1998 heart attack which led to a quadruple heart bypass
and seven weeks off work. “I have been good since then other than the
diet - if it tastes good, spit it out.”
Outside of engineering, Reedy is known for
his keen interest in genealogy and love of dogs, something he probably
inherited from his dad, Jack Reedy, who wanted to be a veterinarian and
his grandfather, James Reedy, who was a large animal veterinarian.
Born in Porterville, Calif., Nov. 1, 1949, Reedy was the fourth of four
children.
“My father enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II and went
to England as a B-17 pilot, flying 53 missions into Germany,” Reedy
said. “He became Eisenhower's personal pilot from November 1942 to
1943 during the invasion of Northern Italy. He eventually retired as a
lieutenant colonel. He died at age 48 of a heart attack.”
Reedy graduated from high school in Grand Junction, Colo., where he was
living with his mom and step-father.
“My parents divorced when I was 5,” he said. “I wanted to be a
pilot like my dad and enrolled at Mesa College in Colorado in
aeronautical engineering. That was in 1968, when NASA and Boeing, the
aircraft industry, was shutting down and laying off. Remember the joke
at Boeing, ‘The last one out turn off the lights.'”
So, Reedy regrouped and shifted to civil engineering, earning an
associate degree in 1970.
“The day after graduation, June 6, I married Nancy, who I had met in a
high school physics class,” Reedy said. “We've been married 40
years.”
They both attended Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, where Reedy
earned a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering in June 1972
and moved to Phoenix that same week. He went to work as assistant
engineer for Hayes-Dashney and Associates.
“I paid them $25 to mail me my diploma,” Reedy said.
“Hayes-Dashney worked with ADOT highway projects and my specialty was
highway drainage. I worked there almost a year.”
Reedy said they were working on a 125-foot bridge structure and
following a newspaper story, it went to a public vote and the project
was lost, resulting in layoffs in the company.
The next week, he went to work for Earl V. Miller, which became
International Engineering Co., a division of Morrison-Knudsen.
“There, I worked mostly on highway work at first, then the Sky Harbor
Airport Drainage Report,” Reedy said. “I designed Camelback Road
between 67th and 75th avenues including drainage. I did a lot of stuff
for the City of Coolidge, including the sewer master plan and the
Colorado City North Rim sewer master plan.”
Looking for a smaller place to raise his son, Klint, born in May 1973,
and daughter, Ivy, born in April 1975, he moved in 1976 to Eugene, Ore.,
where he went to work for Parametrix Inc. as a design engineer.
Because he had four years of progressive work experience, he was able to
take the test and receive his Professional Engineering License (PE).
Near the end of 1980, Reedy said, the economy turned south in the wood
products industry and back in Grand Junction, where his wife was from,
there was an oil shale boom going on, so he sent out some resumes and
was hired by Nichols Assoc. Inc. as a senior civil engineer.
“We did a lot of work with Exxon Corp. and Chevron for a couple of
years and I was promoted to vice president of engineering,” Reedy
said. “Around May 1982, the price of oil went from $55 a barrel to $16
and Exxon shut down the oil shale project. It was known as Black
Sunday.”
In July 1983, Reedy became the City Engineer for Grand Junction until
December 1984, when he saw an article in a trade magazine that the City
of Glendale was looking for a city engineer. He applied and got the job.
In April 1989, he was promoted to Deputy City Manager for Public Works,
and since that time, has rotated as deputy city manager over a variety
of departments.
While in Eugene, he and his wife got involved with the Emerald Dog
Obedience Club that taught people how to train dogs.
“I trained my Brittany spaniel, Heidi, earning a Companion Dog Degree
and showed her in the confirmation breed ring,” Reedy said. “It was
fun. We trained about 700 people to train their dogs.”
Somewhere along the way, Reedy said, he and his wife began helping
people who worked at the city, and other friends, find family pets by
determining what their interests were in having a dog and family
dynamics.
“I do temperament tests that I learned from the Seeing Eye Foundation
that have been used for 50-plus years. The tests are pretty easy. You
can tell at 7 weeks the dog's temperament,” Reedy said. “We have
helped 58 people find dogs. Our goal is a community service program to
make sure dogs don't end up at the pound later.”
At Reedy's retirement party, there was a slide show with pictures of
many of the dogs he helped find homes for over the years.
His retirement plans include finishing a genealogy book, which he has so
far traced back to 13 generations and putting it in the Mormon Library,
spending time with his young grandson, Karson, and, yes, probably
getting another dog.
“I am really going to miss the people here,” Reedy said. “They are
a wonderful group of folks.”
This article reprinted here courtesy of Glendale Star.
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