{"id":12010,"date":"2019-08-23T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=12010"},"modified":"2019-08-23T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T17:41:21","slug":"sun-valley-launches-search-for-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/23\/sun-valley-launches-search-for-new-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Valley Launches Search For New Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

City administrator vacancy is priority \u2018number one\u2019\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Hayden Seder<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Sun Valley\u2019s city administrator, Susan Robertson, officially vacated her post on Aug. 2 to take a position in Augusta, Maine. Robertson\u2019s departure has left the position vacant, with other Sun Valley city staff working double duty to take on the tasks required by the position.<\/p>\n

The administrator since January 2013, Robertson was responsible for operations of the municipality and carrying out the decisions of the city council and the mayor. With nearly seven years working for Sun Valley, and a master\u2019s degree in public administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Robertson\u2019s shoes are big ones to fill, and ones that have traversed many regions across the United States.<\/p>\n

Maine will be the seventh state where Robertson has taken on civic work. Robertson started her career in Florida, became a public works assistant director soon after in Wisconsin, and then an assistant city manager in Wyoming. She landed her first city manager position in Silverton, Ore., in the early 1990s. Most recently, she was an assistant city manager for more than three years in upstate New York.<\/p>\n

The City of Sun Valley has engaged an executive search firm to begin the task of finding Robertson\u2019s replacement. The firm has been visiting the area since Monday to come up with a profile for the position and a description of what the city is looking for as determined by all city council members and department heads.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we get this profile finalized, we\u2019ll have a good idea of all the things we\u2019re looking for,\u201d said Peter Hendricks, Sun Valley mayor.<\/p>\n

Hendricks anticipates the profile being completed at the end of that week and the profile to subsequently be advertised in city administrator journals. Hendricks hopes to have the position filled by the first of the year as an executive search like this typically takes anywhere from 12 to 16 weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a long process and it becomes even longer when holidays are thrown in,\u201d Hendricks said. \u201cI would like the position filled before the first of the year but it depends on who we hire and their availability.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Hendricks has assumed the executive responsibilities for city administrator while finance director Wendy Crosby and city clerk Nancy Flannigan have also stepped in to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew beforehand that some tasks would be more complex than others, but so far, so good,\u201d Hendricks said. \u201cEverybody has shouldered up and taken it on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city has bolstered its staff with additional help given the extra work. Kelly Lockwood was recently hired as a permanent assistant clerk and assistant treasurer, bringing a suite of skills and experiences to the table to assist in Robertson\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019ll be a good exercise for all of us to be involved quite heavily for the next three to four months,\u201d Hendricks said. \u201cThe budget is behind us, so our number one job is the recruitment of city administrator.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City administrator vacancy is priority \u2018number one\u2019\u00a0 By Hayden Seder Sun Valley\u2019s city administrator, Susan Robertson, officially vacated her post on Aug. 2 to take a position in Augusta, Maine. Robertson\u2019s departure has left the position vacant, with other Sun Valley city staff working double duty to take on the tasks required by the position. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,18,42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community","7":"category-news","8":"category-sun-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}