Comments on: Filling the Ann Arbor City Admin Job

By: LiberalNIMBY

LiberalNIMBY — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:54:01 +0000

Has Affion done any work in recruiting CEO-level city officials? I really don’t want to believe that they are being considered flippantly on the basis that they helped recruit one other external person for the city. Fraser’s job is perhaps the most important—and unique—one to a city.

Does Affion have greater familiarity than the Michigan Municipal League with the kinds of hard skills a city manager should have? I do know that they are more expensive than MML and not Michigan-based, so I should hope so.

I trust that the outsourcing of this recruitment process is a good decision; I just hope the committee has done its due diligence in examining the recommendation for Affion.

By: Vivienne Armentrout

Vivienne Armentrout — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:45:22 +0000

Susan Pollay would be an excellent interim administrator, assuming that she is not interested in the permanent job. She is a very effective administrator and knows the city well. Further, since she is not on the city staff, she would not be having to deal with a future supervisor in interacting with an incoming administrator.

By: Leah Gunn

Leah Gunn — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:00:26 +0000

Correction – when Susan Pollay served as an interim city adminstrator with Ron Olson she was already Executive Director of the DDA. She did both jobs until Roger Fraser was hired.