Gailey offered city manager position (Printed Nov. 2, 2007)
By Amanda Estes
Staff Writer
After a closed meeting on Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Claude Morgan said the South Portland City Council has offered the city manager position to Acting City Manager Jim Gailey.
“There were some outstanding candidates,” Morgan said on Wednesday morning. In terms of breadth of experience and knowledge of this community, it really put [Gailey] in another league. He has a very nuanced understanding of this particular community.”
Gailey may be able to remove the “acting” from his title following a public vote, which could take place as soon as Monday.
“I went in and did the best I could,” Gailey said about his interview. “You go in and you think you’re prepared for every question there is and there’s always those one or two questions where you say, ‘Uh, oh.””
The council interviewed five candidates out of a pool of 10 applicants at the Marriot Hotel on Tuesday. At a Sept. 17 council workshop, there was some concern from councilors about whether the current council or December’s council would be responsible for hiring the new manager. Councilors Linda Boudreau and Ralph Baxter’s at-large, three-year terms will expire in December. Boudreau is seeking re-election to her seat.
“We want to believe we’ll interview everybody in a day,” Morgan said last week. “If we need to deliberate more [and] not rush into things, then that’s what we’ll do, “ Morgan said. “I think it’s quite conceivable that we’ll know stuff before the election. It’s no sweat if we don’t.”
Baxter’s decision to not seek reelection raised some questions about whether he would be involved with the interview process.
“I only got involved with it because the rest of the council wanted me to,” he said. “I would have been perfectly happy to step aside. I’m not sure that my perception was much different because I was looking at it from the perspective that I was going to continue on with these people.”
Boudreau said the human resource consulting firm, Drake Inglesi Milardo, assisted the city with the advertisement and the collection of resumes. The city was guaranteed a free search by the firm when former city manager Ted Jankowski’s tenure fell four months short of a year.
Former Assistant City Manager Jim Gailey took on the role of acting city manager following Jankowski’s departure in May. Gailey also filled in after former City Manager Jeff Jordan resigned last year.
Staff Writer
After a closed meeting on Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Claude Morgan said the South Portland City Council has offered the city manager position to Acting City Manager Jim Gailey.
“There were some outstanding candidates,” Morgan said on Wednesday morning. In terms of breadth of experience and knowledge of this community, it really put [Gailey] in another league. He has a very nuanced understanding of this particular community.”
Gailey may be able to remove the “acting” from his title following a public vote, which could take place as soon as Monday.
“I went in and did the best I could,” Gailey said about his interview. “You go in and you think you’re prepared for every question there is and there’s always those one or two questions where you say, ‘Uh, oh.””
The council interviewed five candidates out of a pool of 10 applicants at the Marriot Hotel on Tuesday. At a Sept. 17 council workshop, there was some concern from councilors about whether the current council or December’s council would be responsible for hiring the new manager. Councilors Linda Boudreau and Ralph Baxter’s at-large, three-year terms will expire in December. Boudreau is seeking re-election to her seat.
“We want to believe we’ll interview everybody in a day,” Morgan said last week. “If we need to deliberate more [and] not rush into things, then that’s what we’ll do, “ Morgan said. “I think it’s quite conceivable that we’ll know stuff before the election. It’s no sweat if we don’t.”
Baxter’s decision to not seek reelection raised some questions about whether he would be involved with the interview process.
“I only got involved with it because the rest of the council wanted me to,” he said. “I would have been perfectly happy to step aside. I’m not sure that my perception was much different because I was looking at it from the perspective that I was going to continue on with these people.”
Boudreau said the human resource consulting firm, Drake Inglesi Milardo, assisted the city with the advertisement and the collection of resumes. The city was guaranteed a free search by the firm when former city manager Ted Jankowski’s tenure fell four months short of a year.
Former Assistant City Manager Jim Gailey took on the role of acting city manager following Jankowski’s departure in May. Gailey also filled in after former City Manager Jeff Jordan resigned last year.
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