City May Get Search for Manager Started
Hoping to start the selection process for replacing their veteran city manager, Thousand Oaks leaders Tuesday will consider sending out a letter soliciting bids from executive search firms.
The possible move comes a week after City Manager Grant Brimhall, Thousand Oaks’ chief bureaucrat for 20 years, announced his retirement, effective Valentine’s Day.
“We need to get started on our search for a city manager,” Mayor Mike Markey said Friday. “We need to move forward on this.”
The letter, which Markey will present to his colleagues, would ask headhunters to respond to the city by Feb. 17 with detailed proposals outlining how they would find candidates, how long the search would take and what it would cost.
At the same meeting, Councilwoman Elois Zeanah will ask her colleagues to discuss who should be the city’s interim city manager and what qualifications the next city manager should possess.
But Markey said discussing the qualifications now would be jumping the gun.
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