Cedar Rapids City Council's Personnel Committee

Title Date Duration
Cedar Rapids City Council: Personnel Committee—Continued work on the "profile" for the City Manager's position, retreating from efforts at their meeting the week before to hamstring the new Manager after getting advice from city Attorney Jim Flitz regarding the legality of their efforts vis-a-vis the City Charter. Prospects of finding a "local" candidate who can be hired "quickly" are fading; headhunters are being sought to search more broadly. May 3, 2010, 1:30 pm Play 01:02:25
Cedar Rapids City Council: Personnel Committee—reworks the "profile" of the City Manager's position in anticipation of seeking and securing a replacement. First efforts are devoted to finding someone "local", with the alternative that of turning to a professional search firm. May 3, 2010, 1:30 pm Play 01:02:25
Cedar Rapids City Council: Personnel Committee—continues efforts decide how to approach the search for a new city manager. They settle on their "clean-up" of the Flood Director's job description. They refine their notion of what a "flood advocate/advisor" on behalf of residential flood victims/survivors should do. April 26, 2010, 1:30 pm Play 01:12:28
Cedar Rapids City Council: Personnel Committee—Begins efforts to find a new city manager, with an emphasis on looking local and finding someone quickly. Committee members touch briefly on revisions to the Flood Director's job description. They scrap Mayor Ron Corbett's notion of having a new position of "flood advocate" report to him, and assist him in his work as Mayor. April 21, 2010, 1:30 pm Play 01:26:52