City Administrator Plan - Latest Info

5/17/12

Council met Monday evening in a work session to discuss options for filling the vacant City Administrator position. See the work session video (end of the agenda) at: http://lmcc.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=536

Zerby, Siakel and Mayor Lizee all spoke advocating hiring an interim administrator with Zerby saying the interim should be in place until after the November election. He wants the new council to pick a permanent administrator. Of course, this would mean no permanent administrator until after the new council is seated in January, 2013!

Zerby also suggested that an intern might be used as interim administrator.  Maybe Zerby thinks the Administrator position is unimportant?

Anyway, in the regular council meeting (see item 10A) the council voted to appoint a subcommittee (Sub to what?) to pursue advertising for an interim and working on the requirements for a permanent administrator. Siakel and Woodruff are on the committee with two staff members.

So,  the council who forced out the administrator now have a plan to punt the permanent hiring decision to a new council. The Insider sees this as a way for Lizee and Zerby to keep this hot potato issue away from them as they campaign for re-election. Lizee said she was too busy to be on the subcommittee and Zerby declined Lizee's request to be on it. That's real commitment (not).

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The Insider