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Mayor Linda Hudson wants a growing,
business-friendly city that provides a good
place to live and work.
them and is trying to make sure they have what they need to
have a good life. And that I will help them do that within the
confines of our laws. I don’t want anyone to get special treatment,
but I don’t want anyone to get awful treatment either.”
She doesn’t see the future of Fort Pierce as being home to
many big-box stores. The reality is that the population and
the income among residents just isn’t there right now, she
says. “The average single person is making $17,000 and the
average family is making $42,000. We may not have many
big-box stores, but we do have a lot of small businesses and
I’d like to see them succeed.”
If bad things happen within city hall, or inside city boundaries,
she doesn’t want anyone to retreat to the “bunker mentality”
the city has become known for, she says. “I plan to be
open and accessible to the extent that I have the knowledge
about a situation,” she says. She used to teach people within
associations how to handle bad news, she says, so she feels
comfortable with the procedure.
The city’s form of government doesn’t give the mayor any
special powers, but she and the commission will be working
with the new city manager — whose job is to oversee the
staff, act as its liaison to the board and present the budget.
Like the mayor, he is a public face of the city and is often the
person residents and businesses expect to help them navigate
the sometimes murky waters of city government.
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Name: Linda
Hudson Bailey
Age: 68
Position: Mayor,
City of Fort
Pierce, since
Dec. 3, 2012, 4
year term
Previous Positions:
retired
from association
management
jobs with the
American Medical
Association
and then with
the Illinois State
Medical Association,
where she
was vice president
of membership
marketing.
Local Volunteer Positions in past 10 years: Fort Pierce
Citizen’s Budget Committee 2010, 2011; Downtown
Farmer’s Market; Genealogical Society; St. Lucie County
Library Advisory Board.
Special Interests on the Job: City finances
Special Interests Outside of Work: Research in general;
family history; local history
Education: Fort Pierce native; local schools, BA from
University of Florida in English and history
Family: Husband John Bailey; son Buell Bailey, 39; family
cats Friday and Batcat
Something Nobody Knows About Me: “I don’t like to
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