The FirstNet board is getting five new members, the...
The FirstNet board is getting five new members, the Department of Commerce said Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/1nyZaUz). Among major changes, Paul Fitzgerald, sheriff of Story County, Iowa, will no longer be a board member. Fitzgerald made headlines last year when he sharply…
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criticized the leadership of the board (CD April 24/13 p1). Also leaving is Charles Dowd, a deputy police chief with the New York Police Department. But the board got two new first responders -- Chris Burbank, chief of police, Salt Lake City, and Richard Stanek, sheriff, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Also leaving the board are former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and the board’s original chairman, former telecom executive Sam Ginn. Other new members are James Douglas, former governor of Vermont; Annise Parker, mayor of Houston; and Frank Plastina, a technology executive from North Carolina. Ed Reynolds, a former telecom executive, was reappointed. The department noted that the terms of office for Ginn, Dowd, Fitzgerald and Reynolds expired Aug. 20.