REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Mayoral Announcement of Mayor-Appointed Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on City Manager Recruitment (Information Only)
Report
BACKGROUND
The City will be undertaking a recruitment for a new City Manager. The Mayor will appoint three councilmembers to an Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on City Manager Recruitment to: review and approve final recruitment brochure; meet with the recruiter to consider the results of candidate screening; make a recommendation to Council on which candidates to interview; work with the recruiter and staff to identify panel composition for interviews and provide input on interview questions; and any other short-term direction to staff as needed between Council meetings.
Pursuant to Council Policy 7.4.13, ad hoc advisory committees are created and appointed by the Mayor with a fixed, limited assignment for a particular purpose, and no more than three councilmembers may serve on an ad hoc committee. The policy requires that any action to create or modify the committee must be placed as an item on the Council agenda.
EXISTING POLICY
Council Policy 7.4.13, Council Subcommittees and Council or Mayor-Created Advisory Task Forces
DISCUSSION
Mayor Klein announces that Mayor Larry Klein, Councilmember Richard Mehlinger, and Councilmember Linda Sell will form the ad hoc advisory committee. The committee will make a recommendation to the full Council for consideration at a noticed Council meeting. Upon the successful recruitment of a new City Manager, the term of the ad hoc committee will expire.
PUBLIC CONTACT
Public contact was made by posting the Council meeting agenda on the City's official-notice bulletin board at City Hall, at the Sunnyvale Public Library and in the Department of Public Safety Lobby. In addition, the agenda and this report are available at the NOVA Workforce Services reception desk located on the first floor of City Hall at 456 W. Olive Avenue (during normal business hours), and on the City's websit...
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