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Council approves deputy city manager job description amid debate over 60‑day rule and pending code change
Summary
City Council approved the job description for a deputy city manager after debate over a 60‑day appointment provision in the municipal code and questions about the manager’s effort to appoint Andrea Phillips; staff will seek a code amendment to remove the 60‑day limit.
The Santa Fe City Council approved a job description for the deputy city manager on June 11 after a contentious discussion about a 60‑day municipal-code provision that city staff says unintentionally restricts the city manager’s ability to appoint a deputy after that deadline.
City Manager Mark Scott told the council he had intended to appoint Andrea Phillips as deputy city manager following a recruitment process and that Phillips accepted an offer and relocated to Santa Fe. Scott said he learned the municipal code’s language — which says the city manager “may appoint” a deputy within 60 days — raised a technical eligibility question, and…
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