Woodfaulk objects to mayor’s plan to screen city manager applications

Posted on May 23, 2018

Councilwoman Venita Woodfaulk found herself outnumbered Monday night when she expressed her desire to appoint non-city-affiliated individuals to a hiring team that would screen applicants for the soon-to-be vacant city manager position.

“I don’t believe we need to stay in-house with this. You don’t think that there is someone in the community who would have (human resource/ HR) skills? The person we hire (as city manager) is going to be working with the community. I believe we need to go out to the public and get people for this committee, and not get people affiliated with this (the city),” Woodfaulk said.

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