The City Manager serves as the Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the day-to-day functions of the City Organization to include management of the City's Police, Fire and Public Works Departments. In addition, the Finance, City Clerk, Development Service and Code Compliance functions are administered by the City Manager.
The mission of the City Manager's office is to implement the vision of the City Council and to implement City of Shavano Park policies by supervising and coordinating all city departments.The City Manager's primary goal is to make sound recommendations and to manage the affairs of the City of Shavano Park to maximize efficiency, economy and public confidence in local government.
The City Manager responsibilities include organizational management; fiscal management; program development and city service evaluation. The City Manager must be aware of new methods as they apply to City services. New developments in the area of public policy are researched and analyzed to organize a process of program planning in anticipation of future city needs.
Kyle H. McCain, City Manager
Mr. McCain has been involved in Public Service most of his 38-year career, serving in both local government and federal government. Mr. McCain’s tenure in City Management has spanned 26 years and has included serving as City Manager/Administrator in seven cities in Texas. Early in his career, Mr. McCain served as City Administrator in Valley Mills and Overton, and City Manager in Lampasas, Henrietta, and McGregor. Following four years as the Community Manager at Lake Kiowa, a large gated community in North Texas, and ten years with FEMA Mr. McCain returned to City Management and has served in Mexia and Clute before coming to Shavano Park. In the last two cities, Mr. McCain saved these communities millions of dollars by initiating public/private cooperation, and intergovernmental cooperative programs. Mr. McCain has also been active in the Regional Councils of Government wherever he has served as City Manager.
The majority of Mr. McCain’s career was in small cities in Texas where he was involved in all aspects of the municipal operations, from Finance and Human Resources to Public Works to Public Utilities. This experience and associated training earned Mr. McCain “B” licenses in both Water and Wastewater utilities from the State of Texas. Mr. McCain used this experience when he served as President of the Board of Bluebonnet Water Supply Corporation and later as the General Manager. Mr. McCain began his career in the City Manager’s office in Waco where he served as the first intern working with the Assistant Manager on management issues.
In 1991, Mr. McCain began a ten-year career with FEMA Region VII in Denton, TX, where he served as the Public Information Officer and later as the Hazard Mitigation Officer (associated with the National Flood Insurance Program), and later the Counter-Terrorism contact with the FBI. During disasters, Mr. McCain also served as the Community Relations Cadre Manager directing his staff as the “eyes and ears” of FEMA, contact disaster victims and providing field reports. Mr. McCain left FEMA to return to local government, where he could feel a “greater sense of accomplishment from working with projects that have results.” When Mr. McCain left FEMA he retained a reserve position where he can be deployed for disaster duty when he is available and chooses to accepts the assignment.
Mr. McCain holds a Master in Public Administration Degree from the University of North Texas, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Baylor University in Waco. Mr. McCain also attended Texas A&M University, until he received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. He served as president of his class until being injured in a shipboard accident and accepting a medical discharge and returning to finish at Baylor.
Mr. McCain is married to Martha McCain. He was raised in Gainesville, Texas, where his 92 year-old father still resides.