This morning Sharon Addison will watch her first City Council meeting along with proud family members who join her as lawmakers act on the five resolutions and one ordinance on the agenda.
One of those resolutions will approve the two year contract to hire her as city manager effective July 16.
For Council it is the conclusion of a three month recruitment effort that took a stack of 37 applicants down to one person who will soon be the one to implement Council policies and administer the day to day operations of the City and its 300+ work force.
Last year's successful hiring of a City Clerk, during an election year, was in retrospect a key lesson in working together behind the scenes. In both cases, I tried to keep the group focused and working discreetly so as not to make a hiring into a pageant.
Council and I are convinced Ms. Addison will do a good job. Today she is introduced and over the next several weeks will surely work quietly with City Manager Krol to become familiar with the issues at hand.
In the meantime, Mr. Krol is still the manager and the City staff looks forward to Ms. Addison's start. There's work to do.
6 comments:
Colossal waste of time and the taxpayers money. With such a high unemployment rate in the North Country you really couldn't find someone local - or at least in the entire State of NY to hire? And someone with local government experience? Shame on you. And God help the new manager, bet she has no idea what she is really getting in to. Especially when she visits the Mayor's bar and blog!
Would that be the blog you are now reading or the bar you must have gone to ?
Great Job Mister Mayor. Once again you demonstrate you could be running any of the fortune 500. In record time you have taken care of this enormous task and done so logically and competently.
No slight intended to her precedents but it appears you have upped the anti and brought in someone with a better resume than the city has ever seen before for this position. Hopefully she will perform as well as she seems qualified to do.
And the best part is that you managed to hire another woman into the position that was vacated by a woman. That makes a woman judge and a woman city clerk and a women recreation czar and soon to be a woman hockey owner. No blacks, Hispanics or gays (that we know of) but still that is an impressive record.
"anti" sic..Ante; a forced bet used in the game of poker..since you put it that way,I guess the word was apt after all..
Sorry about the misspelt word 1:07.
The word was intended to be part of an idiomatic phrase that commonly has a different meaning than you have interpreted.
Nope,ante or anti,think you hit it on the first try,the interp was from the wiki definition of the word..intentional or not..
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