Mayor Bill Mischler was first appointed to the Pinellas Park Planning and Zoning Board in 1971. He served for nine years, five as Chairman. In March 1980, Bill was elected to City Council and was re-elected in 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996. In 1998, half-way through his fifth term on the Council, he resigned to run for the Office of Mayor. Bill was elected in 1998, and re-elected in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010.  

The Mayor represents Pinellas Park on the following Boards and Committees: Board of Trustees of Northside Hospital and Tampa Bay Heart Institute; Community Redevelopment Agency; Pinellas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (Past-Chairman); Pinellas County Mayor's Council (President); Florida Regional Community Policing Institute Board of Directors; Community Advisory Board Member for Clothes To Kids, Inc.; and the United States Conference of Mayors Committees on Transportation and Communications and Criminal and Social Justice.   

Mayor Mischler, a very compassionate individual, possesses a willingness to listen with an open mind to address residents' and business owners' concerns. He attends approximately 25 to 30 City-related functions per month and is a true ambassador for Pinellas Park. He exemplifies the warm and friendly image of our City.   Bill was a founding father of People Helping People of Pinellas Park, a volunteer-based non-profit organization that assists elderly, disabled, or incapacitated residents on fixed incomes with yard work and minor repairs to their property.

Bill retired in 2001 from Jim Walter Computer Services Inc., in Tampa, as their Lead Systems Analyst after more than 34 years of employment. He and his wife, Joan, have lived in Pinellas Park since 1967. They have a daughter, Cindy, son-in-law Phil and two grandchildren Brian and Amanda.

You can contact Mayor Mischler via e-mail at bmischler@pinellas-park.com