OSAC advances city manager recruitment: consultant recommends five-week posting, stakeholder interviews and community meet-and-greet

The Operational Strategy and Administrative Committee (OSAC) met Sept. 26 to review and advance a recruitment plan for a permanent city manager, hear the consultant’s approach to sourcing candidates and approve a stakeholder survey to collect public input.

Cliff Moore, a consultant with Kaufman retained to run the recruitment, described a national search that uses targeted advertising and stakeholder interviews to build a candidate profile. "We recommend that [the job] stay open for at least five weeks," Moore said, adding that he will begin screening applications as they arrive and classify them into tiers (meet/exceed minimum qualifications, near-qualifying, and not recommended). Moore said preliminary interviews would follow the first review date so finalists can be assembled for decision-makers to consider.

The recruitment timeline discussed at the meeting included a near-term job launch, a short-listing process in late fall to…