Frank Martz | City Manager 

 

As the City Manager of Altamonte Springs, Frank Martz brings more than 28 years of industry expertise, P3 creation, strategic direction and executive management experience to his role. His blend of vision, empowerment and fiscal management produced one of the most innovative cities in the world while lowering the Altamonte Springs’ property tax rate to one of the lowest in Florida and remaining a completely debt-free city.

 

During Mr. Martz’s tenure, the City has expanded its portfolio and collaborated with organizations across a large spectrum of industries to develop top-notch amenities for residents. Frank is a former minor league infielder and brings that work ethic and focus on teambuilding and execution to everything he does.

 

Responding to a community need, Martz collaborated with corporate businesses, educators, professionals and volunteers to create a private sector funded/city-run practical S.T.E.M. education experience for Seminole County students. The Altamonte Springs Science Incubator is an innovative program promoting career-readiness in the high-tech, high-demand fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Martz expanded the program to include high school classes to train graduating seniors to become licensed wastewater operators.

 

Frank has managed and overseen the planning, engineering, financing and/or development of nearly $2.7 billion of public, public/private or private projects. In partnership with the Secretaries of the Florida Departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection, Martz led the development of an innovative project, A-FIRST, that captures and treats stormwater from the I-4 Ultimate project, creating more than 1 billion gallons of new alternative water for the region every year.

 

In 2016, Frank led the formation of the first community-wide congestion management and connectivity pilot in the world with Uber Technologies, Inc. In 2017, the City created pureALTA, a project that converts reclaimed water to purified drinking water without reverse osmosis and exceeds all drinking water standards. pureALTA became the first project in Florida to ever win the national water reuse award. In September 2018, pureALTA won an international innovation award in Tokyo, Japan, surpassing out projects from 45 other countries. He also led the formation of the Altamonte Electric Utility, which seeks to develop sustainable energy solutions for the City’s operations. Under his leadership, the City was named a “Utility of the Future Today” by the Water Environment Federation for the City’s transformational programming.

 

Frank has served as a member or chair of numerous regional committees relating to land use, transportation and mobility, fiscal planning, opioid addiction, mental health and other issues relating communities. He recently formed a mobility group that serves nearly 150,000 residents within five cities spanning two counties. Martz participates on various innovation committees across the world, including: Global Urban Leaders; Cities Today Institute; as a Board Member for the Urban Leadership Foundation; as an executive cohort leader for Meeting of the Minds; as a Global Founding member of MasterCard City Possible Program; and he was named one of the Top 10 Public Sector Transportation Innovators in the United States by the Eno Center for Transportation. In 2021, he and his team will launch the Altamonte Global Innovation Lab (AGiL) to create, curate and host the development of both public and private sector mobility, environmental, technological and data-driven innovation solutions that can be scaled and implemented in other communities nationally and internationally.