City Manager Welcome to the City of Aberdeen! It is a pleasure for me to extend personally, as well as on behalf of the City Council and Mayor a cordial welcome to the City of Aberdeen’s website. We believe Aberdeen to be one of the finest cities in the state. The purpose of this website is to be a valuable resource for information about Aberdeen. The website provides update information about City Government, Recreational Activities and Community Affairs. We encourage you to take time from your busy schedule to tour the web-site. The city intends to redesign this web-site in 2010 to support additional computer link transactions. The redesigned web-site will expand the amount of community information but also include a “photo gallery” of community facilities and the beauty of our community. Thanks for visiting our site. Lynn Lander City Manager CITY MANAGER BIO Lynn Lander has 31 years of local government experience, 19 years of which have been spent as a City Administrator and nine years as a City Department Head. Lynn’s management career has spanned over four different cities. He served as City Administrator in Hermantown, Minnesota, City Finance/Personnel Director in Mandan, North Dakota and City Finance Director in Ipswich, South Dakota. These cities have provided a diverse range of experiences. Along with his recent service with the City of Aberdeen, his career has included working in a metro suburb environment adjacent to Duluth, Minnesota and for a city with a large petroleum industrial and railroad base and a smaller farm and ranch community. He has managed or assisted with management of cities through boom and bust periods and managed several significant public improvement projects and also worked with the private sector to expand positive residential and commercial development. Lynn is a graduate of Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota.