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<br />City Council Regular Meeting - 10/23/06 <br />Minutes - Page 15 <br /> <br />9. <br /> <br />Update on the City Manager Hiring Process <br />Human Resources Manager Dona Bacon reviewed the Request <br />for Council Action dated October 23, 2006, related to the City <br />Manager Search, provided a brief progress report, and sought <br />Council consideration and direction of the next 21 applications <br />had been received by the October 2, 2006 deadline; first <br />interviews were scheduled in mid-November with eight internal <br />and eight external panelists, as supported bye-mail polling of <br />Councilmembers, as deemed appropriate by the City Attorney as <br />to procedure to-date. Ms. Bacon advised that the proposed budget <br />and timeline remained on track. <br /> <br />Ms. Bacon advised that the executive search firm, Personnel <br />Decisions Incorporated (PDI) had received applications via <br />courier service, and Harry Brull from PDI was currently <br />reviewing and narrowing the candidate pool of the top ten, and <br />was scheduled to meet with the City Council on October 31, 2006 <br />at 4:00 p.m. in Special Session, as publicly noticed, to narrow <br />candidates to those finalists selected for interviewing. Ms. Bacon <br />advised that Mr. Brull's assessment was anticipated October 24, <br />2006; and at that time, the City Council would receive application <br />packets at their homes for proposed candidates. <br /> <br />Ms. Bacon requested Council direction regarding travel expenses <br />for the large number of out-of-state applicants and potentially <br />moving interviews up to November 16,2006 with a public forum <br />or social to be conducted that same day to minimize expenses; <br />inclusion of newly-appointed Councilmembers sitting in on the <br />November 16 interviews in an advisory capacity; interview times <br />and whether to conduct interviews by panel or individually; <br />amount of detail for and type of assessment testing tools, and how <br />many candidates to test; as well as details for the public forum or <br />social for citizens to meet final applicants. <br /> <br />Ms. Bacon reviewed past practice for scheduling interviews; <br />types of testing (i.e., written and oral exams; internal and external <br />panel conducting testing); and considerations for in-state and out- <br />of-state candidate practicalities. <br /> <br />Update <br />City Manager <br />Hiring Process <br />