Mary Besore Durward

Mary Besore Durward

Engineering Technician at City of Superior Wisconsin

Duluth, Minnesota Area

Current
  • Engineering Technician at City of Superior Wisconsin
Past
  • News Assistant at Duluth News Tribune
  • County Assessor at St Louis County Minnesota
  • Senior Planner at Arrowhead Regional Development Commission
Education
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Connections
20 connections
Industry
Environmental Services
Websites

Mary Besore Durward’s Experience

  • Engineering Technician

    City of Superior Wisconsin

    (Environmental Services industry)

    May 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

    Records management and geographic information systems for Stormwater Utility

  • News Assistant

    Duluth News Tribune

    (Newspapers industry)

    June 2007May 2008 (1 year)

    Content administration on newspaper website

  • County Assessor

    St Louis County Minnesota

    (Government Administration industry)

    April 1985September 2004 (19 years 6 months)

    Department Head position supervising the property tax assessment function for more than 100,000 taxable parcels in St Louis County, Minnesota. I administered a budget of $2 million with 30 county staff in three offices, and supervised 20 local assessors employed by different local jurisdictions. I retired from this position in 2004 and traveled around the world for one year.

    As a Principal Appraiser, prior to my appointment as County Assessor, my responsibility was to develop, implement, and supervise new computerized assessment systems, maintain and coordinate existing assessment systems and data processing needs, and develop and implement special projects, including the annual department budget, GIS parcel information, spreadsheets for local assessors, sales analysis, valuation schedules, and appraisal statistics.

  • Senior Planner

    Arrowhead Regional Development Commission

    (Government Administration industry)

    January 1979October 1984 (5 years 10 months)

    Community development, housing and transportation planning

  • Assistant Planner

    City of Duluth

    (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry)

    September 1974December 1978 (4 years 4 months)

    Downtown development planning


Mary Besore Durward’s Education

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    BUP , Urban Planning , 19701974


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Mary Besore Durward’s Interests:

International Travel, Community Service, Curling, Hiking, Camping

Mary Besore Durward’s Groups:

Rotary, AFS

  •    UIUC Networking
  •    Rotary Youth Exchange

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