Mike Gent hired as new deputy city manager

Position vacant since 2020

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On April 17, the City of Littleton will welcome Mike Gent to its sta as the new deputy city manager, restoring a position left vacant since the summer of 2020.

City Manager Jim Becklenberg selected Gent from over 120 applicants and four quali ed nalists in a nationwide search.

“We’re eager to work with him,” Becklenberg said when he announced the hiring decision at a March 28 study session. “He brought some great energy in the interviews and he’s gonna… hit the ground running with us.”

Littleton’s previous deputy city manager, Randy Young, left the position in 2020 as part of an early retirement plan the city o ered to existed