Town Manager
The Town Manager is Doug McGee
E-mail address: dmcgee@town.pendleton.in.us
Doug grew up in the South Madison County area, graduated from Pendleton Heights High School, received a BS in Business Administration from Indiana University with a major in accounting and a minor in chemistry and earned a MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University. He began his local government career in March of 1986 as Falls Park Superintendent and has been Pendleton Town Manager since 1996.
The Town Manager's duties include those of Planning Director. Doug is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. The Town Manager is also general manager of the electric and water utilities and supervisor of the street department and municipal cemetery. Doug oversees the staff functions of the Town Council, Planning Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals, Redevelopment Commission, Utility Rate Advisory Board, Fire/Police Building Corporations and the tree committee.
Doug is the Town's Commissioner on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Municipal Power Agency. Duties at IMPA include serving on the budget committee, the nominating committee and as chairperson of the audit committee. He represents the Town as a member of the Fall Creek Regional Waste District Board of Directors and Pendleton/Fall Creek Park Board.
In the public safety arena, Doug is a paramedic and past Director of Advanced Life Support Operations for the Pendleton Emergency Ambulance Service. He is a past member of the Board of Directors, Ambulance Chief and training officer. He is a retired second class firefighter with the Pendleton Fire Department. Doug was honored by the Indiana Department of Homeland Security as 2006 “Paramedic of the Year”.
Doug completed a paramedic-to-RN transition program and earned an AS in Nursing degree in 2007. He is an Indiana licensed Registered Nurse and is certified in emergency nursing, pediatric emergency nursing and advanced trauma nursing. He is a weekend-option RN in the Emergency Department of Community Hospital in Anderson.
The McGee family consisting of Doug, a cat named "Shelby" and Cockatoo parrot named "Apollo" live in a historic home on South Broadway Street, the Town's only remaining original brick street.
