PORT TOWNSEND — Michael Hildt, longtime public servant and Port Townsend’s first city administrator, has died of cancer.
Hildt, 59, who also was a former Seattle City Council member and pioneer of the state public-disclosure law, died at his Seattle home Dec. 21 after a brief struggle with aggressive cancer, his spouse, Karen Gates Hildt, said Monday.
In a personal obituary he wrote recently, he said two of his favorite sayings were: “There’s nothing worse than the truth told at the wrong time,” and “It’s amazing what you can achieve if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
In 1986, he and his spouse moved from Seattle to Port Townsend where he served as executive assistant to the mayor and director of building and community development until 1995, when he was appointed to serve as Port Townsend’s first city administrator.
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