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Andrew Frank
1st Deputy Mayor, Neighborhood and Economic Development
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Salima Siler Marriott
Deputy Mayor, Community and Human Development
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Christopher Thomaskutty
Deputy Mayor, Administration
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Andrew Frank - Deputy Mayor, Neighborhood and Economic Development
Prior to joining the administration of Mayor Sheila Dixon, Mr. Frank was the Executive Vice President for the Baltimore Development Corporation (the city's economic development arm) for six years. He oversaw business retention and attraction, land assemblage and redevelopment, capital budgeting, commercial revitalization, and urban design and planning.
Among his achievements at BDC, Mr. Frank helped structure public private partnership financing for several major redevelopment projects, including three Tax Increment Financing (TIF) projects (totaling $170 million); the $100 million redevelopment of the Montgomery Ward Building, completion of the City's 7-mile waterfront promenade and Baltimore's new Inner Harbor Visitor's Center.
In May 2004, Mr. Frank was appointed to the position of Inner Harbor Coordinator, expanding his responsibilities as the BDC's EVP. As Inner Harbor Coordinator, Mr. Frank oversaw implementation of the 2003 Inner Harbor Master Plan, chaired the intra-agency Inner Harbor Task Force, and managed major capital projects such as the $5 million renovation of the West Shore Park. As Inner Harbor Coordinator, Mr. Frank engaged the private sector in creating a waterfront improvement district to raise standards and improve day-to-day operations and management.
A 1992 graduate of the University of North Carolina with a Master's degree in Regional Planning, Mr. Frank has worked in the private sector, developing affordable housing, and in the public sector with the Baltimore City Department of Planning and Department of Housing and Community Development. Since 2000, he has co-taught a real estate development class in the Urban Studies and Planning Department at the University of Maryland College Park.
He proudly lives in Baltimore City with his partner and son.
Salima Siler Marriott - Deputy Mayor, Community and Human Development
Salima Siler Marriott, D.S.W., serves as Deputy Mayor for community and Human Development in the administration of Sheila Dixon, Mayor of Baltimore Maryland. As Deputy Mayor, Dr. Marriott has responsibility of overseeing agencies that have collective responsibilities of maximizing the human potential of every citizen from prenatal to the end of life.
Before joining the administration of Mayor Sheila Dixon, Dr. Marriott served for sixteen year in the Maryland House of Delegates, serving on the Ways and means Committee, chairing the Joint Committee on Children, Youth and Families; Ways and Means Subcommittee on Children and Youth; and the Baltimore City Delegation.
Dr. Marriott was a member of the Morgan State University faculty for 24 years, chairing the Department of Mental Health and Human Services for six years. Prior to joining the Morgan faculty, Dr. Marriott was a social worker for the New York City and Baltimore City departments of social services. Salima Siler Marriott began her professional career as a science and Mathematics teacher in the Baltimore City Public School Science.
A native Baltimorean and a product of Baltimore City Public Schools, Salima Siler Marriott earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Morgan State University, a Masters of Social Work degree in Community Organization and Social Planning from the University of Maryland, and the Doctor of Social Work degree in International Social Welfare from Howard University.
Salima Siler Marriott's more than 40 years of public service and activism has its genesis in her oldest child's enrollment in New York City Public Schools. From parent advocacy, to neighborhood and community development, to social and international justice, Dr. Marriott combining of public service in academia with social activism led to her election to Maryland House of Delegates.
In addition to Dr. Marriott's leadership roles in the Maryland General Assembly, nationally she chaired the National Black Women's Health Project, and served as Secretary of the National Rainbow Coalition and Regional Chair of the National Black Caucus of State. In the Baltimore community, she chaired the Park heights Development Corporation, served as a Trustee at Bethel A.M.E. Church, Vice Chair of the Baltimore Substance Abuse Board and is currently co-chairing the City-wide Re-entry and Reintegration Steering Committee. In the international area, Dr. Marriott is the co-editor of "U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa: Policy Prescriptions and Alternatives", 1984 and coordinator of two international conferences: "1985 and Beyond: A National Conference on Issues Confronting Women of Africa and the African Diaspora", a preparatory conference for the 1985 World Conference on Women and "Empowered Women: Challenging Violence and HIV/AIDS Globally" a conference sponsored by the National Black Women's Health Project with more than 500 participants in 1995.
Salima Siler Marriott is the recipient of numerous honors, including three in 2006: Maryland CAN Champion for Children, Mental Health Association of Maryland Legislator of the Year Award, and Youth Service Bureaus Legislator of the Year. Dr. Marriott is a member of Delta Sigma theta sorority, Inc., the National Organization of Women and the Board of Directors of the Family League of Baltimore City. Dr Marriott is the mother of Terrez Marriott Thompson and Mr. Patrice Kenyatta Siler Marriott and the grandmother of Quierra Patrice Marriott and Summer Salima-Jeanette Thompson.
Christopher Thomaskutty - Deputy Mayor, Administration
Christopher Thomaskutty serves as Deputy Mayor for Administration for Mayor Sheila Dixon, overseeing departments that include public safety – fire, police, and emergency management – finance, labor, information technology, CitiStat, and the wage and retirement commissions.
Mr. Thomaskutty began his career in Baltimore City government as a CitiStat Analyst in 2003 under former mayor Martin O’Malley. In January of 2007, Mayor Sheila Dixon appointed Mr. Thomaskutty as the Director of CitiStat, a performance management department for which Baltimore is renowned. In its first three years of operation, CitiStat produced over $100 million in financial benefits to the city, and received national attention from the New York Times and Governing Magazine. More recently, CitiStat won Harvard University’s Innovations in American Government Award, the equivalent of an Oscar Award for government.
Mr. Thomaskutty received a B.A. in Political Science from Birmingham-Southern College. While at BSC, he was named a Truman Scholar by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. After college, Christopher worked as an Urban Development Coordinator for the non-profit Operation New Birmingham, where he focused on redeveloping historic downtown buildings into loft apartments. Prior to joining the Mayor’s Office, Christopher received a Masters in Public Policy and Urban Planning (MPP/UP) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Born and raised in rural north Alabama, Mr. Thomaskutty is a die-hard Alabama Crimson Tide football fan. He and his wife live in Baltimore City and have one beautiful daughter.
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Mayor Sheila Dixon
City Hall, Room 250
100 N. Holliday Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Phone (410) 396-3835
Fax (410) 576-9425
Denise Chavis
Executive Assistant
Phone (410) 396-1800
Betsy Gardner
Executive Secretary
Phone (410) 396-3497
Zoe Michal
Director of Scheduling
Phone (410) 396-4889
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