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Crest Hill approves city administrator job announcement; council asks for job-description clarifications
Summary
Council approved a job announcement prepared by consultants to begin recruiting for the city administrator position but directed staff to finalize changes to the job description (including supervision language and a line about finance oversight) ahead of posting.
The Crest Hill City Council voted Feb. 3 to approve a job announcement prepared by consulting firm MGT Consulting to start recruitment for a new city administrator, while asking staff to finalize specific edits to the underlying job description before the announcement is posted.
City Administrator Tony Graff summarized the consultant-recommended announcement and said the proposed changes were intended to broaden the candidate pool by adjusting the abilities, skills and responsibilities language while leaving reporting lines and compensation unchanged. Graff told the council the consulting firm wants the announcement finalized so recruitment preparations — such as outreach to associations and job sites — can begin.
During discussion council members requested two clarifications: adding explicit supervisory language that the city administrator reports to both the mayor and the city council, and removing an existing sentence that said the city administrator manages the finance department. Council members said the finance oversight sentence had been removed in practice but did not appear in the current document and needed to be cleaned up. Several aldermen said they would prefer the final job description to reflect the current practice and to be explicit about the reporting and supervision structure.
Graff and other staff said they will incorporate the requested edits and circulate the corrected job description before the announcement is posted; the council approved the announcement with those contingencies. The motion was made and seconded; the roll call followed and the motion carried. One council member said he was unclear what exactly was before the council but nonetheless voted to move the recruitment process forward.
Councilmembers also amended the motion to include specific language changes proposed by individual aldermen; staff will bring the revised job description to the next work session for final review before public posting. Separately, in his administrative report Graff said conditional offers have been made to two part-time building inspector positions and that water meter replacements are proceeding slowly, with about 50 meters remaining to be changed.
