The first round of interviews with the three candidates is complete. Two candidates will move to a second round of interviews scheduled for early January, said Riverside City Manager Mark Carpenter.
The fire chief position became vacant when then-Chief Carpenter became interim city manager in July. As city manager, Carpenter earns $100,000 per year, is the director of public safety and an active member of the fire department. As fire chief, he earned a gross pay of $83,079 in 2014.
The newspaper reviewed the resumes of the three candidates after obtaining the documents under Ohio’s public records law.
Sexton, the Jefferson Twp. chief since July 2013, told the newspaper his current employer is aware of his interest in the Riverside position. He was a longtime Dayton Fire Department employee, joining in 1979 as a paramedic and leaving in 2012 as a fire captain. The Washington Twp. resident’s application states he earns a $52,000 salary as Jefferson Twp. chief and earned a $90,000 salary as a Dayton fire captain.
Smith’s resume states he worked at the National Center for Medical Readiness at Wright State University from 2006 until September, when the position was “eliminated due to financial constraints,” he wrote. He told Riverside officials his ending WSU salary was $135,000. Smith, an Oakwood resident, has worked since September at the Ohio Department of Public Safety as a fire training coordinator, where he earns a $49,500 salary.
Stitzel, who lives in Enon, is a private fire investigator for the insurance industry, a job he began part time in August 2014 and took on full time in May 2015. From 2012 to 2015 he served as the Mason Fire Department deputy chief. Prior, he served from 1988 to 2012 in the Huber Heights Fire Division, beginning as a firefighter and leaving as an acting battalion chief. He is a current adjunct professor at Sinclair Community College and Clark County reserve deputy sheriff. Salary information was not immediately available.
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The Dayton Daily News digs into local issues in Riverside. Earlier this year, the newspaper covered the search for Riverside’s new city manager. Our local coverage continues with the search for a new fire chief.
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