Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, April 9, 1991 TAG: 9104090258
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER/ SOUTHWEST BUREAU
DATELINE: GALAX LENGTH: Medium
Cox, 34, will become a regional representative for Seacor Services Inc., which contracts to operate municipal facilities for local governments. He is the only person to serve in the assistant managerial post, which was created just before he was hired.
He will be Southeastern U.S. business development manager for Seacor, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Philadelphia-based Day & Zimmermann. The company handles engineering jobs, information systems, appraisals, security systems for nuclear facilities and a variety of other tasks. It has about 12,000 employees nationally, Cox said.
Since January, Seacor has been operating Galax's expanded $6.2 million waste-water treatment plant under a five-year contract. Construction of the plant was one of the tasks assigned to Cox.
Cox said he was approached six weeks ago about going to work for Seacor.
Hiring Cox is part of a move to expand Seacor's business in Virginia, eastern Tennessee and parts of North and South Carolina, company President Chuck Rech said from Seacor headquarters in Mount Laurel, N.J.
"Kim, of course, brings a very nice blend of the things we're looking for. He has that city managerial background," Rech said.
He said Seacor officials agreed to Cox's request to work out of Galax "and hope we can make that work. It's going to be a long logistics line for him."
Rech said he will make Cox available to his replacement to help with the transition.
Other projects on which Cox has worked in Galax include development of the 68-acre Glendale Industrial Park, starting up a 911 emergency communications system, coordinating the application to bring Virginia Main Street Program status to Galax and securing a $700,000 grant for downtown revitalization.
Cox earned a political science degree in 1983 and a master's of city management last year from East Tennessee State University. He was a city manager intern in Gatlinburg, Tenn., in 1984 and worked as a circuit-riding town manager for the Mount Rogers Planning District Commission, serving Independence and Fries, in 1985 and 1986.
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