SEPTEMBER 10, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A11
City manager search finally underway
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Council authorized
interim City Manager Wes Hare to sign
a contract with The Greg Prothman
Company at the Tuesday, Sept. 7 meet-
ing. An updated timeline shows that
final interviews for the city manager
position will now take place Dec. 14.
The executive recruitment company
is set to begin working with the city as
early as next week to begin recruiting
Keizer’s next city manager.
The contract approval, originally
set to happen at an Aug. 16 meet-
ing, was delayed three weeks after
Councilor Ross Day voiced his upset
with city staff’s selection process and
background check of Prothman. Day
originally wanted to start their entire
process over, but after another lengthy
debate at an Aug. 23 work session, the
council decided to move forward if the
company passed a background check.
“I’ll speak for my role in the process
which was to contact the references
of The Greg Prothman Company,
which I did. You have a summary of
the responses to my reference check,”
Hare told the council. “They were all
generally pretty positive. Not sure that
I learned anything new.”
Keizer has been without a city man-
ager since April.
An updated timeline for the recruit-
ing process, originally set to begin
Aug. 18, shows the new start date as
Sept. 13. Applications for the city man-
ager position will close Nov. 7 and the
final interview process is set to take
place Dec. 14.
The city will pay the Prothman
company $20,000 for the recruitment
services.
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616-610-3093.
Keizer city councilors discuss the hiring of a new city manager at Tuesday's meeting.
Photo by JOEY CAPPELLETTI of Keizertimes
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McNary band hosting
fundraiser on Saturday
The McNary band will be hosting their annual Band Day on Saturday, Sept. 11 from
9 a.m to 6 p.m.
Due to COVID-19 issues, they are not going door-to-door this year. Instead, they
will set up operations at V2 Dentistry on River Rd and are asking people to drop off
any bottles and cans or donations at that location.
People can also visit www.mcnaryhsband.org to fill out a form to have donations
picked up at their home.
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