The City Manager Citizens Committee is scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. today in the fifth floor Conference Room at City Hall, 455 N. Main. The 17-member committee is charged with reviewing 22 candidates seeking to become the next City Manager.
Misty Bruckner, the chair of the committee, will be available for media questions at 1:30 in the first floor Boardroom at City Hall. Also attending will be Mayor Carl Brewer and a representative of Slavin Consultants, the search firm hired to firm hired to assist the nationwide search for the City’s top administrator
Bruckner, of the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs at Wichita State University, will provide updated information on the goals and challenges of the search process.
Slavin Consultants has sought candidates in communities with a city manager form of government and more than 100,000 in population. Wichita’s population ranks in the top 20 among communities with a city manager form of government.
The City Manager reports to the seven-member Wichita City Council, oversees 3,100 employees, a $500 million annual budget and a $2.4 billion Capital Improvement Program. The City Manager position has been vacant since Jan.2 when former City Manager George Kolb resigned.
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