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Franklin to recruit city manager and city attorney in parallel; clerk hire deferred
Summary
Consultants from the Berkeley Group told Franklin City Council Sept. 22 they will advertise for a city manager and city attorney in early October, screen candidates in November and hold on-site interviews in December; council agreed to pause a separate clerk recruitment and consider a deputy-clerk model.
The Franklin City Council heard a detailed recruitment plan Sept. 22 from Kim Payne and Steve Rosenberg of the Berkeley Group, who recommended running city manager and city attorney searches in parallel and delaying a standalone city-clerk recruitment.
"To me, silence means consent," Payne told the council as he outlined a compressed timetable: place job profiles on the street in early October, make preliminary cuts in November and conduct on-site interviews in December or January. He and Rosenberg said the group would present screening results to the council at its…
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