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File ID: 2025-00455 1/28/2025 Discussion Item 15.
City Manager Recruitment - Process and Next Steps
File ID: 2025-00455
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Provide direction to staff on process and next steps in the City Manager Recruitment process and pass a Motion: 1) referring to the Personnel and Public Employees (P&PE) Committee the evaluation of executive recruitment search firms from the list of firms approved by the City Council on October 22, 2024 (File ID 2024-01810), and 2) directing the P&PE Committee to return to the City Council with a recommendation on the executive recruitment search firm for use in the City Manager recruitment no later than March 1, 2025.
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
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.
On October 22, 2024, the City Council approved entering into professional service agreements with five firms for executive recruitment services. With that action, the Council pre-approved executive recruitment vendors who had successfully met the requirements of the City's Request for Proposals (RFP No. P24081111002) for Executive Recruitment Services on an as-needed basis. The rationale provided for this Council action (Agenda File ID 2024-01810) was that since each of the five firms on the list met the qualities the City sought such as unique experience, recruitment approach, geographic reach, fee schedule, and diversity profile, their pre-approval would give the City much needed flexibility and agility in meeting its executive recruitment needs.
As the City has contracts in place with these five firms, the city has requested that each of the firms submit cost proposals and respond to basic process questions, which are due on January 29, 2025.
File ID: 2025-00455 1/28/2025 Discussion Item 15.
Components of an executive recruitment could include the following:
· Selection of executive recruitment firm.
· Councilmembers to hold meetings with their constituents to solicit feedback on the recruitment process and the qualifications of the next City Manager. · Recruitment firm to interview councilmembers, staff, careholders, etc. · Community and/or careholder survey(s).
· Recruitment brochure created and recruitment open.
· Recruitment firm to review applicants and recommend candidates to council. · Interviews: first round, second round, etc.
· Negotiations with candidate and the designated negotiator, typically the Mayor. · Regular updates from the Mayor to the community on status of the recruitment.
Policy Considerations: The City Council alone is vested with the authority to appoint a City Manager.
Economic Impacts: Not applicable.
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 to 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, and the City Council has begun a recruitment process for the position of City Manager.
Financial Considerations: Not applicable.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.