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Council approves title change, formalizes deputy city manager role for Cecily Priddy
Summary
Sweet Home City Council unanimously approved Resolution No. 8 (2025) to formalize interim assistant city manager Cecily Priddy in the deputy city manager role (7-0). Council and staff said the retitling clarifies duties and will not change the current budgeted personnel costs.
The Sweet Home City Council voted unanimously to approve Resolution No. 8 (2025), formally transitioning interim assistant city manager Cecily Priddy into the deputy city manager role.
A staff presentation to council explained the proposal would retitle the interim assistant city manager position as deputy city manager (the staff memo noted the titles are often used interchangeably by local governments). The City Manager said the change is intended to reduce public confusion about the scope of the role (some had mistaken "assistant" for an administrative assistant) and to reflect that Priddy has been operating as second in command, covering city-manager duties during absences and performing significant responsibilities across police, finance, economic development and administrative services. The City Manager said the arrangement "will continue to save the city considerable money" and that the change requires no immediate budget increase because the position is already budgeted.
Councilor comments at the meeting were supportive; no councilor voiced opposition during the recorded discussion. Councilors called for the vote after brief remarks of praise. The motion to approve "option number 3" carried with seven votes in favor and no nays. The roll-call sequence recorded in the meeting named the following council members as voting yes: Councilor Richards; Councilor Sanchez; President Pro Tem Thorstein; Mayor Coleman; Councilor Osterberg; Councilor Brunson; and Councilor Hagee.
Cecily Priddy, identified in the record as the interim assistant city manager, thanked the council after the vote and said, "I really genuinely love this community a lot." City staff and councilors also made light remarks about long-term contract jokes during the discussion; those remarks were colloquial and did not change the formal action.
Additionally, the council approved the consent agenda earlier in the meeting on a voice roll call; the clerk recorded seven yes votes and no nays. The consent agenda included minutes and a public address system application (specific consent-agenda items were not read into the record).
