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Black Hawk County board discusses creating a county administrator position; schedules follow-up work session
Summary
At a Jan. 21 Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors work session, members heard an overview of county administrator and manager models from guest Mike Galloway, discussed salary and political risks, and agreed to a follow-up work session with department heads and peer counties within roughly a month.
The Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors opened a Jan. 21 work session to consider whether to create a county administrator position and invited Mike Galloway to outline how other counties structure similar roles. "I'm here to entertain questions that the board may have," Galloway told the board, adding he was not advocating one option over another.
Galloway described a range of models used in larger counties, from policy administrators to stronger manager forms. He told the board that appointed administrative roles typically serve as a conduit between elected supervisors and department heads to ensure consistent policy implementation and to preserve institutional knowledge when elected officials change.
"You probably aren't ever gonna hire anybody that's not on a contract,"…
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