City of Overland Park
Erin Ollig, AICP, serves as the Manager of the Strategic Planning Division for the City of Overland Park since May 2017, overseeing a team focused on GIS, long-range planning, and neighborhood programming, while also administering the city's CDBG program. Previously, Erin held roles as Interim Manager and Senior Long-Range Planner, contributing to comprehensive plan implementation and development reporting. Prior experience includes working as a Planner Associate at Shockey Consulting Services, LLC, where Erin developed public participation plans and community visioning projects, and as a Planning Intern for the City of Gardner, Kansas. Erin holds a Master's degree in Urban Planning from The University of Kansas and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from St. Cloud State University.
City of Overland Park
A suburb of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, Overland Park was incorporated as a first-class city May 20, 1960 with a population of 28,085. Since then, the nationally recognized city has grown to more than 187,000 residents, making it the second most populous city in Kansas and metropolitan Kansas City. Overland Park has been named to numerous lists of "best cities," including the best cities to live, best best cities to find a job, best place to raise children, best city in which to retire, and best suburbs for millennials, among others. Check out the City's web site, www.opkansas.org