Council establishes city administrator position, directs staff to draft job description and advertise

The council voted to establish a new administrative position described in discussion as a city administrator or operations manager and directed staff to prepare a job description and advertise the vacancy.

A council member summarized the action: “we established a position for something like a city administrator or operations manager or whatever we wanna call it. But we established a a position, and we go ahead for with building out the job description and moving forward with advertising the position and getting somebody in place,” the speaker said.

Speakers emphasized that creating the position does not change the city——s form of government. One council member said, “this, by no mean, changes our form of government. We still have a mayor council led form of government. This person is not gonna be, this person is not gonna be the mayor is still gonna be in charge of the city.” The transcript also records a comment noting the governing body remains part time.

The council proceeded by motion; a second was recorded during the discussion and the chair stated that the motion carried. The transcript does not include a roll-call tally or further details about salary, job grade or the timeline for hiring. Staff was directed to draft the position description and begin advertising so the city can recruit and fill the role.

Next steps: staff will prepare the job description and advertise the position; the council did not specify salary, recruitment timeline or whether the position will be full- or part-time in the transcript.

Votes at a glance: Motion to create the position and proceed with building the job description and advertising was moved, seconded and recorded as carried; no roll-call vote tally was provided in the transcript.