The Search Timeline
By Wells Dunbar, Fri., Dec. 21, 2007
Jan. 3 or 4: Specially Called Executive Session: Identify semifinalists among external candidates
"Arcus meets with City Council to verbally review all internal and external candidates and to narrow the list of external candidates to a manageable number of the most superior candidates (perhaps as few as three) for the first round of face-to-face interviews."
Jan. 8 and 9: Specially Called Executive Session: Interview all semifinalists
"First round of face-to-face interviews with the three internal, and selected external, semifinalist candidates. City Council will then narrow the list to two finalists."
Jan. 16: Specially Called Executive Session: Interviews with two finalists
"Final one-on-one interviews with, and presentations by, the two finalists."
Jan. 17: Regularly Scheduled City Council Meeting
"City Council names the next city manager."
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