City Manager Headlines | 4-12-2024
FL: Disaster strikes Deltona’s city manager recruitment as multiple candidates drop out
As they were preparing to pick a new permanent city manager, Deltona’s mayor and commission are now dealing with the sudden exit of two of the five finalists and the inability of another to come for interviews for the top administrative post.
The number one favorite of the manager-search committee and the city’s executive-search firm, Bakersfield, California, Assistant City Manager C. Scott Andrews, dropped out “because of concerns about how the commission treats staff members,” Avila told The Beacon.
FL: City of Sarasota leaders to consider proposal for city-owned workforce housing
City Manager Marlon Brown’s plan calls to purchase $7.4 million lots across city hall for nearly 200 apartment units in high-rise buildings of up to 12 stories.
MO: New Carthage council seeks to fire city manager, impeach mayor
Dead men walking…
Newly elected members of the Carthage City Council immediately launched an effort Tuesday night to dismantle the city’s administrative team, but they were preempted by provisions of the city charter. They will try again at a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the City Council chambers at City Hall, 326 Grant St.
CA: Claremont Council approves increase in city manager’s spending authority
The city manager currently has the power to approve purchases and contracts up to $25,000. It got bumped up to $50,000. Division heads will get a bump up to $5,000 and department heads to $25,000.
TN: Murfreesboro City Manager Tindall to leave current position, move into new spot
Looks like the plan is to interview two internal candidates and promote from within…
FL: Miami city manager denies conflict of interest but stops furniture purchases from wife’s company
A self-inflicted wound if there ever was one.
OR: Garibaldi manager responds to attacks and battles back against possible termination
City Manager John Schempf defended his actions, arguing that the vendors who complained about him had been taking advantage of the city and were upset that he had stopped them from doing so. Schempf’s lawyer, Larry Linder, also attended the meeting and attacked the council’s handling of the potential termination.
WA: ‘I can no longer state that I trust Chief Boe’ – Burien City Manager officially requests replacement of Police Chief Ted Boe
Burien City Manager Adolfo Bailon has a tough assignment and things have been tense, with sharp attacks coming his way on the handling of the homelessness issue. What is interesting here is that the police chief is provided to the city via an interlocal agreement. The chief apparently refused to enforce a camping ban. From the main article:
As we have previously reported, the City of Burien has been in a war of lawsuits, countersuits, press releases, press conferences and more with the KCSO since early March. They have not made ILA payments for KCSO police services since then, and Bailon directed Burien’s financial staff to “place a hold on any invoices received from the King County Sheriff’s Office until further notice.”
WI: City Administrator Snyder retiring Friday after 33 years in Rice Lake
A race well-run. Congratulations on an amazing 33 years.
FL: Gardener, Bicyclist, and Environmentalist: New Coconut Creek City Manager Spent Lifetime Unsuspectingly Preparing for New Role
She can see the beehive from her house…
Commissioner Joshua Rydell said Sheila Rose’s 25 years of working for the city and her personal interests align with where Coconut Creek is headed as a city with its focus on sustainable development.
“I say that because she is one with the environment,” he said. “She’s an outdoors woman. She is an avid cyclist and a tennis player, and she knows more about real sustainability issues. I mean, she has a beehive in her house.”
TN: Johnson City criticized at its own roundtable for past sexual assault police work
Johnson City City Manager Cathy Ball and others got an earful about previous alleged policing and victim services failures Thursday during Q and A at a community roundtable focused on the city’s Family Justice Center (FJC).
However, Ball contends that the City “has implemented nearly every recommendation in an expert’s audit of how the JCPD handled sexual assault investigations between 2018 and 2022.”
NC: Sunset Beach selects mentors for town administrator
The Sunset Beach Town Council has selected two retired municipal administrative employees to mentor Town Administrator Lisa Anglin, which is a condition of the written warning issued to her in February.
“I’m happy to report that two area residents [Bonfield and Bowers] with extensive experience in municipal and county administration have volunteered — I say it again, volunteered — their services as mentors to assist and provide counsel,” Mayor Pro Tem Corbett said.
