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Council members Gay Donnell Willis, Paula Blackmon and Jaynie Schultz were unsuccessful in calling for a special meeting to speed up the search process for a new city manager after not enough council members showed up for the Monday morning meeting.
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After meeting two and a half hours behind closed doors Monday afternoon, Dallas City Council members on a committee in charge of the city manager hiring process voted to hold interviews on December 23, sooner than originally planned.
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There will now be five candidates interviewed. The committee removed one of the four previously named semi-finalists, and two new finalists have been added. However, those names haven t been made public yet.
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Council members Gay Donnell Willis, Paula Blackmon and Jaynie Schultz were unsuccessful in calling for a special meeting to speed up the search process for a new city manager after not enough council members showed up for the Monday morning meeting.
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After meeting two and a half hours behind closed doors Monday afternoon, Dallas City Council members on a committee in charge of the city manager hiring process voted to hold interviews on December 23, sooner than originally planned.
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There will now be five candidates interviewed. The committee removed one of the four previously named semi-finalists, and two new finalists have been added. However, those names haven t been made public yet.
DallasThe search for a new city manager has caused division within the Dallas City Council.
A special city council meeting was called Monday morning in an attempt by three council members to take control of the process. Most council members, however, declined to go to the meeting.
Members of the Dallas City Council who are on a committee that oversees the hiring process for the city manager decided to hold interviews earlier than expected on December 23 after meeting behind closed doors for two and a half hours on Monday afternoon.
Council members Paula Blackmon, Jaynie Schultz, and Gay Donnell Willis express their frustration with the administrative committee that is in charge of leading the hunt for a new city manager.
The three signed a memo requiring a special meeting of the entire Dallas City Council in an attempt to take charge of the proceedings.
“It was our goal to bring the body together to be able to discuss this very important hire for the CEO of the ninth largest city in America and move this process forward,” Willis stated.
However, Monday morning’s special meeting was not attended by the entire council. Not even the nine members required for a quorum were present.
The special meeting could not take place because there were only five members of the city council present.
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Council members were informed by a search firm that they had only found four qualified applicants for the position of municipal manager. But the council desired more. “What went wrong during this recruitment process?”
“It is disrespectful to process and procedure when members fail to show up. “It is our responsibility to be present,” Councilman Adam Bazaldua stated.
“We have late homework. “We are currently receiving a failing grade,” Councilman Omar Narvaez stated. “Dallas deserves an A-plus.”
When the ad-hoc committee rescheduled the deadline for hiring a city manager from October 31 to February 10, Willis said she joined Blackmon and Schultz in calling the special meeting on Monday.
“We were ready to interview informally virtually three of the semifinalist candidates, and we have one onsite,” Willis stated.
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It was discovered last week that the front cover image of the booklet intended to attract applicants for the vacant Dallas city manager position was, in fact, the Houston skyline.
The chair of the administrative committee, Council member Tennell Atkins, was questioned by FOX 4 what he thought about council members convening a special meeting.
“I wasn’t present. He answered, “I wouldn’t comment on that.”
Reporter Lori Brown of FOX 4 said, “Why were you not here?”
He said, “I was not here,” once again.
To demand that Kym Tolbert, the temporary city manager, be named the permanent hiring, a number of Dallas people went to city hall.
“We’re dealing with a lot of issues,” Randall Bryant, chairman of the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce, said. “If we don’t get a permanent city manager, they will be permanent problems.”
The person taking over will inherit persistent issues with supporting police and fire pensions, as well as modifications to the municipal charter that may expose the city to additional legal action.
Cynt Marshall, the CEO of the Mavericks, was one of those who supported Tolbert during the meeting that was canceled.
“We had a winning team on the court last night,” she stated. “A winning team on the court with Kym Tolbert, our temporary city manager, and her staff. We hope she becomes a permanent member of the squad.
Five candidates will now be interviewed.
Two new finalists have been added, and one of the four previously announced semi-finalists was eliminated by the committee. But as of yet, those names are not publicly known.
Two days prior to Christmas, the interviews will take place virtually.
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This article’s information is based on earlier FOX 4 reports and the city council meetings on Monday.
This article’s information is based on earlier FOX 4 reports and the city council meetings on Monday.
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