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M I NUT E S e City Council Subcommittee for Consultant Selection Mayor's Conference Room Eugene City Hall Augu st 2, 1980 10 a.m. e PRESENT: Mayor Gus Keller, Betty Smith, Jack Delay, members; Pat Lynch, City staff . Mayor Keller called the meeting to order and stated that its purpose was to discuss the merits of three recruitment firms. The City Council intends to hire a recruitment firm to conduct the search for a new city manager, and this subcommittee's task is to recommend one of the firms under consideration to the City Council . Mr. Keller suggested that, before the actual hiring takes place, an interview of the firm selected might be appropriate. Mr. Delay suggested that the subcommittee begin its work by sharing informa- tion. Mayor Keller reported that he had spoken with Steve Bauer of the League of Oregon Cities, who has worked with several firms, helping smaller Oregon cities to conduct city manager searches. Mr. Bauer said he was unacquainted with PARA, Inc., but had worked with Ralph Andersen & Associates, and Kornl e Ferry International. Ralph Andersen impressed Mr. Bauer as a quiet person who is an excellent solicitor and a good listener. He felt that the profile developed for Springfield by Ralph Andersen & Associates was excellent. Mr. Bauer also had positive comments for Korn/Ferry International. He sa id that the firm had found an excellent city manager for Milwaukie, Oregon. Their work for Lake Oswego went smoothly, and was considered good for all parties. Mr. Delay reported that he had talked with several people, including City Manager Charles Henry. He got the impression from Mr. Henry and others that all three firms under consideration would be adequate for the job and would perform it in a fairly similar manner. All three firms would be available to begin conducting interviews in Eugene on August 11, 12, and 13. Ms. Smith as ked whether the person who would be coming on those days would be the person with whom the City would be working. Mr. Delay stated that in the case of Korn/Ferry International, this was not clear. Ms. Smith felt it was important for the City to know which person it would be working with before hiring a firm. Mr. Delay also reported that he spoke at length with Ilene Weinreb, mayor of Hayward, California. The City of Hayward used Ralph Andersen & Associates last November to conduct a search for a city manager and, more recently, the city, along with ten others and a county, had hired Andersen & Associates to conduct a search for a manpower director of a CETA consortium. In the case of the city manager search, Ms. Weinreb felt the firm did an excellent, competent job. Hayward got a good city manager and its council was uniformly pleased with the hiring process. There was also near-unanimous satisfaction with the hiring process for the manpower director. e MINUTES--Subcommittee for Consultant Selection August 2, 1980 Page 1