Town Manager search process started

From left, Interim Town Manager Tederick, Town Attorney Doug Napier and Mayor-Elect Tewalt during work session discussion of the recruitment process for both a permanent town manager and the filling of Tewalt’s council seat upon his being sworn in as mayor. Photo by Roger Bianchini. Video by Mark Williams, Royal Examiner.

After the Town Council meeting on November 12th the Council went into what was expected to be a brief closed session regarding the Town’s lawsuit against the EDA for recovery of misdirected assets was also removed from the agenda, council adjourned to a work session to review the process of circulating an RFP (Request for Proposals) for a permanent Town Manager. Town Finance Director B. J. Wilson and Town Purchasing Manager Alisa Scott were commended for their work in preparing the fairly complex document.

Mayor-Elect Eugene Tewalt also introduced discussion of the appointment process of his replacement on Council upon his state-certified swearing in as mayor to the work session agenda. Council will have 45 days to make the appointment. Town Attorney Doug Napier noted that the appointee will have to run in the 2020 November election to maintain that seat. Tewalt suggested not advertising for applications for his seat until he had been certified by the State to be sworn in as mayor, a process he said County Registrar Carol Tobin could take another week or two.

Watch the discussion at the  work session in the exclusive Royal Examiner video: