When Hiring a City Manager – Remember Transparency By David Clyne, Oregon City/County Management Association Senior Advisor
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s a retired city manager and attorney with 40 years of public service and currently in service as an OCCMA Senior Advisor supporting the profession, I have thought a lot over the years about what goes into the proper recruitment of a city manager. Cities throughout Oregon, with few exceptions, employ city managers and are faced with the challenging proposition of recruitment from time to time.
When undertaking such a recruitment, all of a sudden you are supposed to be a human resource professional, making one of the most profound decisions you will be faced with on behalf of your community. And the members of your community all of a sudden have lots of “free advice” and certainly want to be engaged in the decision.
So how does that work? Many of our city leaders come from the private sector, where it seems it would be very troubling to hire
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