The Peoria City Council approved the appointment of Mike Faust to serve as the city’s next city manager, effective March 1, at its regular meeting Tuesday night.
Faust will replace current City Manager Henry Darwin, who is stepping down to fulfill a one-year transitional role as executive consultant to the city manager. Darwin’s one-year contract was also approved by the council.
Faust, who joined the city in 2023 as deputy city manager, has supported Peoria’s economic development, planning, development and engineering, office of innovation and neighborhood services departments. Prior to his service to Peoria, he served as director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety and previously worked for the Governor’s Transformation Office. He has more than 25 years of management and consulting experience and earned a bachelor’s degree in business management…