Four people have applied for Henderson’s vacant planning director position, and City Manager Eric Williams says he may offer one of them the job this week.
In a memo he distributed near the end of Monday night’s City Council meeting, Williams reported on the status of the search for replacements for Grace Smith, who quit as planning director last month to take a planning job with the city of Durham; Traig Neal, whose last day as finance director was last Wednesday; and Mary Cephas, who left as human resources manager in mid-May but continues to work on a temporary part-time basis.
Williams wrote that his priority is to hire a planning director, then decide what to with the now-empty Human Resource Department, then pick a finance director. He has been underwhelmed by the response to ads for the planning and finance jobs. The human resources job has not been advertised.
It took Williams and Assistant City Manager Mark Warren to fill Smith’s shoes as the staff support to the Planning Board on Monday afternoon. They won’t have to worry about a repeat performance before the Zoning Board of Adjustment today because that board canceled its monthly meeting for lack of anything to do.
Williams reported that four applicants met last Tuesday’s deadline for the planning director’s job, and “all the applicants appear to have the requisite credentials.”
The city manager has interviews scheduled with two of the candidates this week. “If all things proceed as I plan, an offer may be extended this week.”
Things are more complicated in the Human Resources Department, which had two people, a director and a secretary, until 14 months ago, when Human Resources Director Hartwell Wright resigned. Cephas, the only other member of the department, was promoted to human resources manager in August and was a department unto herself. In her resignation letter, she said she never felt comfortable in the new job.
She is working a part-time schedule, usually Mondays and Thursdays, to help the city. “This arrangement will nor continue for very much longer,” Williams wrote, “but has helped enormously in a number of ways.”
He wrote that he’s analyzing the best way to handle the human resources functions. He said he would like to split the duties between two people. “Obviously, our current budget does not bode well for proposing a new position,” he wrote, “but reassignments among existing staff are being examined.”
In the Finance Department, Peggy McFarland, Neal’s No. 2 as the accounting supervisor, is serving as interim finance director, and Williams said in his memo that Neal has “agreed to occasionally come back, at my discretion, after hours primarily, to assist in the weeks ahead, especially as they may relate to budget development work for ’05-’06.”
Neal left public service for an Oxford accounting firm with one month left in the fiscal year. He said a big part of the reason he resigned, even after Williams gave him a midyear raise, was because he was fed up with the hassles of working for the municipal government.
Four people have applied to take on those hassles as Neal’s replacement. “The qualifications of the applicants are considerably varied,” Williams wrote, “although there is some promise among the field.”
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