NEWS ARCHIVE

(Clinton) -- City Council hears from the consultant the majority want to start the process of finding a new city administrator.

The Clinton City Council is moving ahead with having Human Resource Consultant Paul Greufe help start the process of finding a new city administrator. The council is looking for a replacement for Jeffrey Horne, who resigned at the council’s request a few weeks ago.

Greufe met with the council this morning (Tuesday) to outline what his ideas are about the search process and how the city should proceed. Last week the council approved a resolution to have Greufe lead the effort, but Mayor Mark Vulich said he may not sign it and let it go into effect without his signature or may veto it. But, the consultant was invited to meet with the council to discuss his ideas.

Greufe said the entire process, as he outlines it, is community based and transparent. He ‘it’s my understanding that you have a lot of people interested and they want to insure we select the best possible city administrator we can.” “That’s the positive I take from this,” Greufe said. He added “in my opinion every singe opinion or attitude or thought shared the benefit is everybody wants the same thing. They want us to make sure we hire the most qualified city administrator we can” and that the process is transparent.

He suggested the council appoint a hiring committee that can be composed of some city staff and council member but also members of the community. That committee would help work through the applications and recommend finalists for the council The committee would also help design an interview process.

Greufe said the city could look at an interim city administrator , but also should determine how long the process might be. He added that if it is 3 months then an outside interim might not make sense, but something internal might be needed-but it is going to be longer term search, that an outside interim might be worthwhile. But, he added that is also more expensive.

If Paul Greufe and Associates was hired, Greufe said the cost would be estimated at about $22,000. He only encourage the council to use the plan he outlined be used, no matter who the council wanted to be the actual search firm.

The council invited Greufe back to the council meeting on January 8th to discuss the search again and the council would know the status of the resolution.

Following the meeting, Mayor Mark Vulich told KROS NEWS he was still undecided about whether to sign the resolution or let it go into effect without his signature or veto it.

Written 12/18/2012 by Dave Vickers - KROS News

Back to Archives