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City Council Regular Meeting-10123106 DRAFT Minutes - Page 15 9. Update on the City Manager Hiring Process Human Resources Manager pona Bacon reviewed the Request for Council Action dated October 23, 2006, related to the City Manager Search, provided a brief progress report, and sought Council consideration and direction of the next 21 applications had been received by the October 2, 2006 deadline; first interviews were scheduled in mid-November with eight internal and eight external panelists, as supported by e-mail polling of Councilmembers, as deemed appropriate by the City Attorney as to procedure to-date. Ms. Bacon advised that the proposed budget and ��meline remained on track. Ms. Bacon advised that the executive search f�.m�, Personnel Decisions Incorporated (PDI) had received applications via courier service, and Harry Brull from PDI was currently reviewing and narrowing the candidate pool of the top ten, and was scheduled to meet with the City Council on October 31,2006 at 4.0� p.m. in Special Session, as publicly noticed, to narrow candidates to those finalists selected for interviewing. Ms. Bacon advised that Mr. Brull's assessment was anticipated October 24, 2006; and at that time, the City Council would receive application packets at their homes for proposed candidates. Ms. Bacon requested Council direction regarding travel expenses for the large number of out-of-state applicants and potentially moving interviews up to November 16, 2006 with a public forum or social to be conducted that same day to minimize expenses; inclusion of newly-appointed Councilmembers sitting in on the November 16 interviews in an advisory capacity; interview times and whether to conduct interviews by panel or individually; amount of detail for and type of assessment testing tools, and how many candidates to test; as well as details for the public forum or social for citizens to meet fmal applicants. Ms. Bacon reviewed past practice for scheduling interviews; types of testing {i.e., written and oral exams; internal and external panel conducting testing); and considerations for in-state and out- of-state candidate practicalities. Update City Manager Hiring Process