High Point City Manager Demko Resigns

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Published May 29, 2020 at 5:06 PM EDT

Greg Demko. Image Credit: City of High Point

High Point City Manager Greg Demko has resigned after five years on the job.

The city council announced Demko's departure following a closed session of a recent meeting.

He has worked for High Point since 2015. City officials have not publicly stated what led to Demko's departure, saying it's a personnel matter.

He was hired to replace longtime manager Strib Boynton following a three-month national search. An accountant who also holds an MBA degree, Demko came to the job with more than 30 years of experience.

He is credited with helping to revitalize downtown during his tenure, through efforts that included the addition of a minor league ballpark.

Deputy manager Randy McCaslin is serving as High Point's interim city manager.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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