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Consultants recommend reorganizing Thornton’s city management structure; staff to phase implementation

Thornton City Council (planning session) · October 22, 2025

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Summary

BlackLine Consulting presented an organizational review recommending 13 changes including elevating IT and HR, adding assistant city manager portfolios and improving cross‑department governance; staff said workshops will refine the implementation plan and that some budgetary or ordinance actions will come back to council.

Thornton City received a high‑level organizational review from BlackLine Consulting that recommends structural and process changes intended to prepare the city for continued growth. Consultant John Ness summarized five findings — wide spans of control at the top, fragmented reporting lines, siloing, procedural gaps, and…

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