Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak has appointed Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde as director of the city's Department of Regulatory Services.
Rivera-Vandermyde is founding partner and president of Indigo Enterprises, a Fridley-based corrections consulting firm that specializes in judicial and regulatory compliance, as well in environmental codes and statutes.
She replaces former director Gregory Stubbs, who resigned last year without a public explanation.
The Regulatory Services department is responsible for Housing Inspections, Fire Inspections Services, Traffic Control, Minneapolis Animal Care & Control, and the Problem Properties Unit.
The mayor's office says:
For nearly 10 years, Ms. Rivera-Vandermyde worked in various roles with the government of Puerto Rico and plaintiffs to comply with federal-court orders to improve and reform the delivery of healthcare in the Puerto Rican correctional system, as part of resolving one of the longest-standing class-action lawsuits in the United States. During that period, she served for five years as CEO and board president of the private, non-profit entity that was created by court agreement to transition the provision of correctional healthcare away from the government of Puerto Rico, which had chronically failed to comply with court orders to improve the system.
Ms. Rivera-Vandermyde, who has a B.A. from Amherst College and a J.D. from New York University, has also worked as an attorney in private practice in Boston. She has been a resident of Minnesota since 2006 and is a member of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Minnesota, among other affiliations.
The City Council’s Regulatory, Energy and Environment Committee will hold a public hearing and vote on the appointment May 13, followed by consideration by the full Council confirmation on May 24.