REDINGTON SHORES — The Town Commission has met twice to pick an administrator to run the town’s enterprise affairs, taking that workload off the commissioners. Both instances, they did not decide on an appointee, and now plan to carry one-on-one interviews with two of the highest 5 candidates interviewed beforehand and one chosen from new resumes which have been obtained after the preliminary selections had been made.
In the primary town administrator assembly, on Feb. 2, the fee held prolonged interviews with the 5 candidates through the day and deliberate to pick the winner instantly afterwards.
In that assembly following the interviews, a fee majority appeared to favor former Madeira Beach City Manager Bob Daniels. Then, Mayor MaryBeth Henderson stated she had realized by means of contacts in Madeira Beach that Daniels lacked technical and laptop abilities. She stated Daniels was extra of a delegator than a hands-on official who does the work himself.
Henderson stated Redington Shores is hiring an administrator to do the town administration jobs that at the moment are having to be carried out by the fee members and employed consultants.
The assembly ended with commissioners saying they weren’t able to decide that night time, and so they deliberate to do additional analysis on the candidates and talk about the subject once more at their upcoming common fee assembly on Feb. 9.
At that second assembly, Commissioner Michael Robinson led off the dialogue, saying the fee wanted to return and determine what actions they need the town administrator to do, what ability units they’re wanting for, and what candidates had been finest suited to do what must be carried out.
Robinson stated the choice to rent an administrator was made as a result of “we felt that all of us, as commissioners, were engaged in day-to-day activities that really should be the function of staff or employees of the town.”
The town wants an administrator that may carry out these sorts of jobs, Robinson stated. He talked about a number of issues that had come up earlier within the assembly, comparable to deciding on meters for the sewer system or sending out RFPs, that “are not activities the commissioners should be performing.”
There was consensus among the many commissioners that they wanted to select the highest candidates and transfer forward with one other spherical of interviews. They determined to take a vote on every of the 5 candidates they’d already interviewed, plus 5 new purposes that had been just lately obtained. Any candidate who received three or extra votes can be on the finalist checklist to be interviewed.
The vote was carried out by a present of fingers, as Town Clerk Mary Palmer referred to as every of the names.
Three candidates received majority votes, two from the preliminary candidates who had been interviewed, and one who submitted his resume because the final interviews had been held.
The new candidate on the checklist is Ron Neibert from Eustis, Florida, who received the vote of all 5 fee members. Neibert just lately resigned as metropolis supervisor of Eustis after six years, as a part of a mutual settlement the town fee. He beforehand held metropolis supervisor positions in Illinois, and stated he has ready and administered budgets, and has been profitable in acquiring grants.
Also making the ultimate checklist is native resident Lisa Hendrickson, who’s at present human assets administrator and assistant metropolis supervisor of Pinellas Park. She owns a consulting enterprise, serving as a public administrator for small cities within the space.
The third finalist is Jeff Shoobridge, metropolis administrator of Madison Lake, Minnesota, who stated he’s a “transplanted Floridian” who grew up in Southwest Florida and spent most of his grownup years in south Lake County in central Florida.
Hendrickson and Shoobridge every received three of 5 fee votes.
This time every commissioner will interview the candidates one-on-one, reasonably than as a bunch like final time. Commissioner Bill Krajewski had stated the group interviews, the place all of the commissioners had been current as every candidate was questioned, didn’t work nicely.
“I’ll be very candid,” Krajewski stated, “I thought the whole setup of a group interview was intimidating to all the candidates, and I don’t think it best served any of them.” Krajewski stated in his skilled expertise, he had all the time carried out interviews one-on-one.
Interviewing is scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Feb. 16-18.
The fee additionally determined to cease accepting resumes for the town administrator place.
E-bikes banned on seashores
The Redington Shores fee, in a unanimous vote, has joined with different native seashore communities in banning electrical bikes from the seashore. There has been an effort by the communities alongside the seashore to be according to their codes, so that somebody biking on the seashore doesn’t have totally different guidelines every time they cross a metropolis boundary.
Regular bicycles are nonetheless allowed in most communities, however these favoring a ban say the upper speeds of the e-bikes make them harmful in a seashore setting.