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City manager outlines plan to rebuild planning department, proposes senior planner and grant‑writing contract
Summary
With the planning director having left, city management presented a plan to rebuild planning operations, including hiring a senior "Planner 3," contracting grant-writing services, and reallocating the 2025 planning budget to cover the proposal, which the manager said would cost about $219,000 vs. current appropriations of about $237,000.
City management presented a proposal to reorganize and rebuild the planning department after the departure of the previous planning director, seeking to hire a senior-level planner ("Planner 3"), contract professional grant-writing services, and redeploy existing 2025 budget appropriations to cover the plan.
The city manager (identified in the transcript only as the city manager) said the departure of the previous director, Andrea, left a large gap in institutional knowledge and day-to-day planning work. "It is time for us to review planning part," the manager said, adding that planning functions have fallen to administrative staff and to consultants…
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