Tag Archives: city manager
As talks end, EMS union, city at stalemate
Unlike the unions for police officers and firefighters, the Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services Employee Association could not reach an agreement with city of Austin management on Monday. Employees will continue to work under civil service rules, but there is…
EMS • By Jo Clifton • Nov 2, 2017
AFSCME supports Hart as city manager
The city employees union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, has sent a letter to Mayor Steve Adler requesting that City Council consider hiring Interim City Manager Elaine Hart as Austin’s permanent city manager. In the letter,…
City Hall • By Jo Clifton • Oct 11, 2017
Council will soon interview city manager candidates
In the next month, City Council will likely interview six to eight finalists to be the next city manager during two meetings that will be closed to the public. In a Tuesday discussion with Steve Newton of Russell Reynolds Associates,…
City Hall • By Jack Craver • Oct 4, 2017
Austin Monitor Radio: The search for a new city manager with Laura Huffman
This week, Laura Huffman, the chair of the City Manager Search Advisory Task Force, sits down with Austin Monitor editor Liz Pagano to talk about that search, how it’s going and why it’s so darn important anyway. Audio of the…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Aug 21, 2017
Reporter's Notebook: Use your judgment
Judge judging the judge… It seems not everyone is a fan of County Judge Sarah Eckhardt’s iron-fisted management of Travis County Commissioners Court meetings. Her refusal last week to allow Commissioner Jeff Travillion to interject a question in the middle…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jul 24, 2017
Task force dives into city manager search
The task force in charge of helping to write the job description for Austin’s next city manager hopes to stay involved in the process of picking the eventual hire, even though, as of now, the group is set to dissolve…
City Hall • By Chad Swiatecki • Jun 13, 2017
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Some seek to protect manager applicants' names
A group of Austin citizens is urging City Council to do something out of the ordinary when they hire the next city manager – keep the names of the applicants a secret and only reveal the name of the person…
City Council • By Jo Clifton • Mar 17, 2017
Council debates process for hiring city manager
The firm hired to find Austin’s next city manager said it hopes to get the job done by this summer. At a Feb. 28 City Council work session, Steve Newton of Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. said the firm would take…
City Hall • By Kara Nuzback • Mar 6, 2017
Hensley appointed interim assistant city manager
Interim City Manager Elaine Hart has named Parks and Recreation Department Director Sara Hensley interim assistant city manager upon the retirement of Sue Edwards on March 17. Hart announced Hensley’s promotion, as well as rearrangement of some staffing assignments, in…
City Hall • By Jo Clifton • Mar 2, 2017
Council selects search firm to find new city manager
City Council settled on a firm to conduct the search for a new city manager Thursday following a convoluted and unusual process in which each Council member ranked the three firms competing for the contract. Council ultimately voted 7-4 to…
City Hall • By Jack Craver • Feb 10, 2017
Council could pick manager recruiter next week
After hearing from Human Resources Department Director Joya Hayes at Tuesday’s work session, City Council appears poised to select a firm or firms to move forward with the search for a permanent replacement for former City Manager Marc Ott. Ott…
City Hall • By Jo Clifton • Feb 1, 2017
Council upends manager search process
City Council on Thursday scrapped the staff-led process for hiring an executive search firm to help find a new city manager, sending the Human Resources and Purchasing Office team off to see if it might put together a new process…
