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Wilsonville begins city manager recruitment; consultant recommends extended schedule and stakeholder outreach
Summary
At a special Oct. 9 work session, consultant Richard Myers outlined a recruitment plan for Wilsonville’s next city manager, recommending a longer posting period, stakeholder interviews, background checks before finalist selection and one-on-one council interviews to shape the candidate profile.
The Wilsonville City Council met in a special work session Oct. 9 to begin the process of recruiting a new city manager, hearing from consultant Richard Myers of GMP Consultants about a multi-step hiring schedule and stakeholder outreach the firm recommends.
Myers told the council the firm prefers a slower timetable to avoid holidays and to attract qualified applicants: “We basically lose three weeks, of those three months, coming up that just disappear off the calendar. People don't respond during those times,” he said, and urged a minimum four- to five-week application period rather than the shorter option the council had previously considered.
The consultant outlined a green (extended) schedule he called conservative and a blue (shorter) schedule the firm considered riskier. Under the green timeline Myers described, the application deadline would be Dec. 7, semifinalist interviews would be completed in early January, and final…
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