Red Bank commissioners are selecting the city’s new manager at a special-called meeting Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.
Financial Director John Alexander has served as interim city manager since the departure of former City Manager and Public Works Director Tim Thornbury, who wrote in his April 14 resignation email that he sensed a desire among some newly elected commissioners to take city administration in a different direction.
Commissioners have narrowed their options down to their top two candidates: Martin Granum, manager of facilities and parks services in Washington County, Oregon, and Jeff Burton, director of the Community Redevelopment Agency in Palmetto, Florida.
The city conducted a nationwide search for a new city manager with assistance from the University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service, which also helped evaluate the candidates.
Honna Rogers, municipal management consultant for the advisory service, interviewed commissioners and city staff to develop five competencies on which the top four candidates would be ranked by a panel of four city management professionals, comprising former and current city managers and assistant city managers.