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Confirm appointment of Mr. Ryan Wiggins, Sr. to serve as the Director of the Polk County Building Division.
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The Polk County Charter specifies the county manager's appointment of executive service employees is subject to confirmation by the Board of County Commissioners.
The County Manager has appointed Ryan Wiggins, Sr. to the position of Director of the Polk County Building Division, effective October 15, 2024.
Ryan has 25+ years in the building and construction industry where he built and supervised the construction of custom homes. He worked as a building inspector for the City of Winter Haven and then came to the Polk County Board of County Commissioners in October 2017 as a building inspector for the Building Division. Between 2017 and 2021, Mr. Wiggins worked his way up from a Building Inspector I to Building Inspector IV, then served as Interim Building Official starting September 2021. In February of 2022, he was promoted to Building Official, which is the position he currently holds.
Ryan is a State of Florida Certified Building Official, Residential Inspector, Building Inspector, Electrical Inspector, Plumbing Inspector, Mechanical Inspector, Building Plans Examiner, Residential Plans Examiner, Plumbing Plans Examiner, and Mechanical Plans Examiner and is one exam away from becoming a Master Code Official, of which there are only approximately 900 worldwide. He has also been instrumental in assisting with advancing the Building Division's innovative technology efforts to serve Polk's customers inclusive of the auto assignment of building inspections and resulting outcomes via text messaging and the customer inspection tracker tool software application.
Ryan earned a bachelor's degree from Polk State College in Public Administration and is a graduate of Leadership Bartow (Class XX), a graduate of the County's Emerging Leaders Program in 2020 and a graduate of the County's Succession Management Program in 2022. Ryan i...
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