After reviewing scores of applications, Boca Raton City Council members have winnowed to seven the number of city manager candidates they will interview for the city’s top job.
The council will conduct interviews on Aug. 12 and could make a selection the same day.
That person will replace City Manager George Brown, who is retiring on Jan. 2. Brown is a 43-year city employee who served as deputy city manager for 21 years until he was promoted on Jan. 1, 2024, replacing Leif Ahnell.
The council shunned four of the applicants whom the recruitment firm Mercer Group Associates recommended as finalists for the job and added four others from the applicant pool.
The seven include Boca Raton Deputy City Managers Jorge Camejo, a former executive director of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency, and Jim Zervis, who was hired by the city as chief financial officer in 2024 and promoted earlier this year.
The others are:
• Sonia Alves-Viveiros, now city manager/business administrator for the Township of Edison, New Jersey, and formerly city manager of Englewood, New Jersey;
• Patrick Jordan, a former county administrator for Ionia County, Michigan, and formerly city manager of Escanaba, Michigan;
• Stan Morris, city manager and formerly deputy city manager of Sunny Isles Beach;
• Mark Sohaney, former chief executive officer of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii and formerly chief executive officer of Naval Air Station Key West; and
• Victor Spinelli, former chief operations officer of the U.S. Air Force in Tampa and formerly Air Force operations manager in Suffolk, United Kingdom.
— Mary Hladky
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