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Implementation Team: Staff Resumes

Kristi Sturtz, AICP — Program Administrator City of Fort Wayne Miscellaneous Planning & Grants Projects
NewAllen Rural Liaison • Coordinated the management and reporting of over $17 million in federal
funding received by the City of Fort Wayne through the American Recovery and
President, Sturtz Public Management Group, LLC
Reinvestment Act.
• Facilitated the creation and development of the Summit City Entrepreneur and
SELECTED EXPERIENCE Enterprise District
Comprehensive Community Development Planning (Indiana) • Developed annexations, effectively increasing the City’s territory by 1,228.5
• Facilitated the development of the NewAllen Alliance Strategic Investment Plan, acres and population by over 4,000 people. Process included coordination with
2016. Plan received the 2017 John C. Keller Honor Award for Outstanding all City of Fort Wayne Departments and local citizens.
Planning Initiative by the American Planning Association, Small Town and Rural
Planning Initiative.
• Coordinated numerous other comprehensive community development planning Northeast Indiana Fund Planning and Grant Support
• Developed a strategy for the Northeast Indiana Fund, a support organization to
initiatives including: the Portland North Side Revitalization Plan, a 2011 Stellar the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership.
Communities Finalist Project; Auburn’s Strategic Community Investment Plan, • Convened regional foundations to develop the Northeast Indiana Fund as a
a 2012 Stellar Communities Finalist Project; Decatur’s Artistically Inspired vehicle to implement the Vision 2020 effort.
Innovation Strategic Community Investment Plan, a 2014 & 2015 Stellar • Prepared a $5M grant to the Lilly Endowment to fund the College to Career
Communities Finalist Project.
Action Team (COCAT) involving regional universities.
• Coordinating the Northeast Indiana Regional Interstate Access Project.
Office of Community and Rural Affairs Funded Projects
• Acted as CDBG Grant Administrator and Labor Standards Officer for twelve EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
CDBG Projects including housing projects, a senior center, downtown historic • MS, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School, Currently Enrolled
preservation, downtown streetscape, water, sewer, stormwater & planning • BS: Public Management, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 1995
projects.
Outstanding Undergraduate of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs
• Projects included the Auburn Sixth and Main Streetscape Project and the • Indiana Economic Development Course, 2004
Woodburn Streetscape Project.
• Project Management Certificate, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2010
• Charrette Development, National Charrette Institute, Harvard University, 2011
Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority Related Projects
• Prepared the following Livability Studies in correlation to LIHTC Affordable CREDITIALS/DESIGNATIONS
Housing Projects: City of Fort Wayne East State Boulevard/Lake Avenue • American Institute Certified Planner
Livability Study (Ryker Reserve); Auburn East Central Neighborhood Study • Accredited Grant Administrator, IOCRA
(Hope’s Landing); Frankfort Southeast Neighborhood Livability Study (Wesley • Qualified Professionals Roster for History, IDNR
Manor), Lafayette Lincoln Neighborhood Livability Study (Union Place Apts.)
• American Planning Association and Indiana Planning Association, Member
INDOT/Transportation Funded Projects YEARS OF EXPERIENCE – 25
• Authored seventeen National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental
review documents including Section 106 historical reviews for potentially
federal funded transportation projects.
• Participated in the successful TIGER II grant application and administration for
the Town of Waterloo, Indiana.

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