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File ID: 2025-00285 1/7/2025 Discussion Item 21.
Update on Recruitment for City Manager and Appointment of Interim City Manager File ID: 2025-00285
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Receive an update on the recruitment for City Manager. Pass a Resolution appointing, and setting a salary for, an Interim City Manager.
Contact: Kevin McCarty, Mayor, (916) 808-5300, [email protected], Office of the Mayor Presenter: Kevin McCarty, Mayor, (916) 808-5300, [email protected], Office of the Mayor
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The position of City Manager was vacated effective December 31, 2024. The City Council has begun a recruitment process for the position of City Manager. The City Council wishes to appoint an Interim City Manager while the recruitment is conducted.
Government Code section 54953 requires that prior to taking final action, the legislative body must orally report a summary of the recommendation for final action on salaries, salary schedules, or compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits of a local agency executive during the open meeting in which the final action is to be taken. Local agency executives are defined in Government Code section 3511.1 (d) as “(d) Local agency executive means any person employed by a local agency who is not subject to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500)).” The Interim City Manager meets the local agency executive definition. As part of the appointment process for the Interim City Manager position, the City Council will set a salary and the Interim City Manager will be subject to, and receive benefits consistent with, the terms of the City of Sacramento’s Personnel Resolution Covering Unrepresented Officers and Employees.
Policy Considerations: The City Council alone is vested with the authority to appoint an Interim City
File ID: 2025-00285 1/7/2025 Discussion Item 21.
Manager.
Economic Impacts: None.
Environmental Considerations:
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): This action is not a project that is subject to CEQA because it is an organizational or administrative activity that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. (CEQA Guidelines §15378(b)(5)).
Sustainability: Not applicable.
Commission/Committee Action: Not applicable.
Rationale for Recommendation: The City Manager has resigned effective December 31, 2024. The Council desires to appoint an Interim City Manager that will have the authority to exercise all authority vested in the City Manager by the City Charter and City Code, as well as any applicable City resolution, policies, or procedures. The appointment of an Interim City Manager will also assure a smooth transition while recruiting for the position of City Manager.
Financial Considerations: The salary for the City Manager classification is already fully funded within the budget for the City Manager’s Office.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
Resolution 2025-xxxx Date Page 1 of 1
RESOLUTION NO. 2024-xxxx
Adopted by the Sacramento City Council
Date
APPOINTING AN INTERIM CITY MANAGER
BACKGROUND
A. On January 7, 2025, the City Council of the City of Sacramento voted to appoint [NAME] as Interim City Manager effective on January 7, 2025. The City Council also voted to set the Interim City Manager’s salary at $XXX per hour.
B. It is the intention of the City Council that the Interim City Manager be vested with all authority provided to the City Manager in the Sacramento City Charter and City Code, as well as any City resolutions, policies, and procedures.
BASED ON THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
[NAME] is hereby appointed to the position of Interim City Manager.
SECTION 2.
The Interim City Manager’s salary is set at $XXX per hour, and that the Interim City Manager will receive all of the benefits of employment to which the City Manager is entitled as set out in the City’s Personnel Resolution Covering Unrepresented Officers and Employees.