Frank Wash '02

Planning Director
City of Walker, Michigan*

Frank Wash is Director of the City of Walker's Planning Dept., which is responsible for guiding, directing, and reviewing land use development activities within the City. From July 1998 to July 2004, Frank was the Planning Director in Alpine Township. Prior to that he was employed at Grand Valley State University’s Annis Water Resources Institute. Frank and his wife, Bobbi, live in Coopersville, where Frank serves as a member of the City Planning Commission

"The GVSU MPA program allowed me to interact with experienced public managers and benefit from their mentoring. The MPA program also introduced me to advanced yet practical public management strategies that I now use on a daily basis. Practice is always based on theory and the MPA program provided a wide range of theoretical models and suggestions on their application in the real world. I graduated feeling that I had a mastery of the art and science of public management … and a better understanding of my role in the process."

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