Bastrop, Tx–Bastrop City Manager Mike Talbot announced Tuesday that the city’s next finance director, Karla Stovall, will be on the job June 22 after more than six years as budget director for the City of Wylie in Collin County, north of Dallas.
Stovall earned a business degree in finance from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1994 and has been Wylie’s budget director since 2002, according to her employment application. She replaces Lamar Ozley who resigned the finance director’s post earlier this year.
She is also a certified public accountant, Talbot told the council during its May 26 business meeting.
Stovall’s starting pay will be $64,900 a year, Talbot told Bastrop-News.com in an interview May 27.