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Myrtle Creek to post City Administrator job; residency question may go before voters
Summary
At a special meeting Aug. 28, the Myrtle Creek City Council directed the City Recorder to prepare a City Administrator job posting for Sept. 2 approval, asked the City Recorder to seek legal advice on a six-consecutive-months charter question, and agreed to include a note that residency would be subject to a future constituent vote.
Myrtle Creek’s City Council met in a special session on Aug. 28 to set next steps for recruiting a permanent City Administrator and to discuss potential changes to the city charter’s residency requirement.
Mayor Luke Dillon called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. and the council focused on a single agenda item: charter amendment language and the recruitment process for a permanent City Administrator. Council members asked the City Recorder to seek legal advice on how to interpret the charter’s reference to “six consecutive months” and specifically whether an interim City Administrator taking leave would interrupt or restart that period.
Council consensus directed the City Recorder to prepare a job posting and a job description for review at the Sept. 2 council meeting. If the council approves the posting on Sept. 2, the job will be posted for 90 days. Locations the council identified for posting included the League of Oregon Cities website, WorkSource, the city website, Indeed and GovernmentJobs.com.
Council also instructed that the job posting include a note: any residency requirement for the City Administrator would be contingent on a constituent vote if the council refers a charter amendment changing residency rules to the ballot. Council discussed draft wording for that potential ballot referral, including a 30-minute ballot measure time limit and the possibility of a waiver by the council.
Councilor Robert Chaney, Sr. recorded for the minutes that he would like to see the City Administrator live within the city limits and suggested adding a council waiver to residency (or similar) requirements so the council could exempt candidates under specified circumstances. The council also discussed forming a Hiring Board composed of staff and community members to participate in recruitment; no final membership or formal appointment was recorded.
The council asked the City Attorney to provide the correct wording for any ballot referral. The special meeting adjourned at 6:31 p.m.
Next steps: The City Recorder will prepare the job posting and job description for council review on Sept. 2; the City Attorney will be consulted on charter language and ballot verbiage.
