LATROBE SELECTS NEW CITY MANAGER

Latrobe City Council has selected Susan Trout as their new city manager.  The Trib reports that she served as an administrator for the City of Greensburg and has other experience in municipal government.  She will earn a salary of $120,000 a year, pending approval of her contract by the mayor and city solicitor.  She is expected to start in August pending the release from her contract from Mockenhaupt Associates.  She said tasks at the top of her agenda will include planning for Latrobe’s 2026 budget and working with council and fellow administrators to get the city ready to take over in-house garbage collection in January.