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Committee weighs minimum qualifications and job description for next city manager
Summary
The personnel committee reviewed the job description and debated degree and experience requirements; members discussed adding municipal public-administration experience, with '3 years required, 5 years preferred' cited as a possible standard.
Committee members reviewed the draft city manager job description and debated whether to require a bachelor's degree in public administration or related fields and how to word experience preferences. One participant read from the draft and noted the possibility of preferring municipal administration experience rather than a general public-administration background.
At one point a member summarized experience expectations: "3 years experience public administration is required. That's 5 years preferred." The committee discussed the trade-off between being narrowly prescriptive (which can exclude some good candidates) and setting a guideline the headhunter can use when sourcing applicants.
