Maumee committee recommends administrator selection panel, job description review

The Maumee Employee and Community Relations Committee voted to recommend formation of an administrator selection committee and to review the city administrator job description and ordinance.

Speaker 5 moved that the selection committee include the three council members on this personnel committee, three citizens chosen by council and the mayor, and a staff leadership panel comprising the finance director, law director, fire chief, police chief and service director. Speaker 4 seconded; the motion carried on a roll call recorded as yes from Kurt, Heppelmeier and Son.

Speaker 2 described the planned hiring process: staff will share applications and cover letters in a folder for committee review, perform a final two-week recruitment push, use questionnaires and rubrics to score candidates, convene staff and (optionally) an employee panel for preliminary interviews, and bring finalists to a public council meeting for final consideration. "We have all of the applications and cover letters in a shared folder that will be shared with all of you to be able to look over before the next meeting," Speaker 2 said.

The committee also approved a separate motion to review the administrator job description and the codified administrator ordinance; that motion was seconded and passed by roll call. Speaker 2 suggested minor ordinance changes will be prepared for committee feedback before the council vote.

Next steps: the committee will finalize the selection-panel recommendation for the council agenda, circulate candidate materials to committee members and schedule follow-up personnel meetings to begin interviews.