Public Administration Associates, LLC

What is Public Administration Associates, LLC?

Public Administration Associates, LLC, is a consulting firm specializing in local government recruitment and management studies. PAA was organized in April 1998 by partners William Frueh, Denise Frueh, and Stephen Hintz. William Forrest and Gordon Hintz are PAA Associates.

What expertise do the partners have in local government?

Stephen Hintz served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh from 1972 to 2001 where he taught personnel, budgeting, and municipal management in the Master of Public Administration program. For twenty years, he served as executive secretary of the Wisconsin City/County Management Association. Hintz holds a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has been consulting with municipalities on recruitment and management issues since 1980. In 1998, Hintz was elected to the Oshkosh Common Council and was the Mayor of Oshkosh from 2002 to 2004. In 2001, he received the prestigious Sweeney Academic Award from the International City/County Management Association for his lifelong work in promoting public administration.

William Frueh has served local and state governments since 1962, as a City Manager in Council Bluffs, Iowa; Newton, New Jersey; Shawnee, Oklahoma and retired in 1996 after 20 years as the city manager of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He also served as the Director of Economic and Community Affairs for the State of Oklahoma. Oshkosh Citizens and the Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper named Frueh as one of the ten people in Oshkosh who most influenced the development of Oshkosh during the twentieth century. Frueh received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Iowa State University and has experience as a City Engineer and Public Works Director. He has been actively consulting since 1996 and is a Life Member of both the International City/County Management Association and WCMA.

Denise Frueh received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin in 1983. After graduation she commenced her municipal career and served as a Division Head in the Finance Department for the City of Oshkosh for seven years. Her experiences include serving as the Deputy City Assessor. She then received her Master of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Besides serving as the business manager for the firm, she has been actively consulting since 1996 in more than fifty executive searches and several administrative studies of municipalities throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Associate William Forrest has over 30 years of experience in service to local governments, including having served as Director of Planning for Marathon County for 22 years, and as Administrator for the Town and Village of Weston for over five years. He has been in the private consulting business for over five years serving both public and private sector clienteles. Forrest received his Bachelor of Science degree in Regional Analysis from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. In 1981 he received his accreditation from the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), and in 1992 was named the Public Employee of the Year by the Wausau Area Chamber of Commerce for his “efforts to foster economic and community development in the Wausau Area.”

Associate Gordon Hintz received his bachelor’s degree from Hamline University (MN) and master’s degree in public policy and administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked as a member of Senator Herb Kohl’s staff in Washington DC, a research assistant for the Kettl Commission on state and local government, and a management assistant and budget analyst for the City of Long Beach, California.

Public Administration Associates, LLC
P. O. Box 282
Oshkosh , WI 54903
e-mail info@public-administration.com
phone 920-235-0279
www.public-administration.com