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the city up to $30,000 for up to fi ve and a
half months of work.
Day, who described the selection pro-
cess and contract as “shoddy work” and
“embarrassing,” was mainly concerned
with the fact that Prothman was not a
registered business in Oregon.
“Why should we trust a company
that can’t comply with state law and has
proven that they haven’t for nine years,”
said Councilor Dan Kohler.
Prothman is based in Washington
and was last registered in Oregon in
2012. The company has recently worked
on three recruitments in Oregon, two of
them being for city managers.
City Attorney Shannon Johnson said
the company said they thought “because
they didn’t have an offi ce in Oregon, they
didn’t have to get registered.”
Carla Axtman, the communications
director for the Oregon Secretary of State,
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couldn’t defi nitively say if Prothman was
required under Oregon law to be reg-
istered. She said the secretary of state
works to help businesses become regis-
tered instead of enforcing if they are act-
ing legally or not.
In a written statement sent to the
Keizertimes, Johnson said even if
Prothman wasn’t required to be regis-
tered in the past “the city must require
compliance before signing the contract
if there is not an exemption.”
Prothman did not respond to a request
for comment.
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While the council chose to delay the
decision until Tuesday, Sept. 7 to give
staff time to gather more information,
multiple councilors expressed a desire to
restart the two month process altogether.
“My concern is that we could go out,
we can come back with a bunch of infor-
mation and the decision is we don’t like
this,” said Interim City Manager Wes
Hare. “It might be simpler to just say, let’s
just redo the request for proposal.”
The search for the new city manager
was originally set to end no later than
February 1 of next year.
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