Confirmation of Community Development Director – Mari Thieryung – Annual Salary of $130,000.00
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
DispositionApproved
Approved Staff’s recommendation with Commissioner Yeager absent from the vote.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Dec 9, 2025
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Dec 9, 2025
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
This case, across meetings
PS-26-0001 in full →Heard once. PS-26-0001 appears on no other agenda in the archive.
- Dec 9, 2025BoardR76▶Approvedthis item
What was said
Machine transcription of 2m of recording, with speaker names inferred from voice matching. 84% of 19 lines carry a name. It shows what was said, not what was decided, and both the words and the names can be wrong.
Yeah we'll go to R seventy six. Confirmation.
Okay.
Uh no, I prefer if we do R76 first. Okay. Okay.
So I'm gonna go back to R76.
Sorry.
Confirmation of community development director, Mary Thurik?
Yeah, I got s I still got tears running down my eyes. Not because you want to have it down my eye. Hold on, I gotta pull my agenda here. So Kathy Pearson, Assistant County Administrator, and I am proud Very proud of Mary who is hopefully going to be confirmed today by all of you as the permanent director of community development. Mary has um been with the county since 2020 and is just a
bundon about every job there is at community development. She really has. And she served as the assistant director for a very short time until we grabbed Chuck to become the disaster recovery. So that's why we have two interims today. So with that said, um Mary is uh has a bachelor's degree in Business Management and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Hodges University in Fort Myers, Florida. She's been with the county for a long time and knows a lot
of people. And so she's just a wonderful to work with and she's a hoot, I'll tell you. She's a lot of fun to work with. And with that, I respectfully um ask you all to confirm Miss Mary for the permit position.
And Mary, if you would have to do that. Please say your last name. I'll make sure I get it right. I know I got it wrong there. Theory Young. Theory Young? Theory Young. Oh, okay. All right. Do we have a motion?
Absolutely. I make that motion. Second.
All in favor say aye. Aye.
Congratulations.
Welcome. Congratulations.
Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner, for your trust.
I don't think we've ever seen that before.
Pasco County is my home and being able to work here is extremely important to me. And I am honored that you made me the Director of Community Development, and I can enforce our mission and continue to serve the citizens of Pasco County.
They do a great job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll have to go see
that one right now.