During the April 2, 2018, City Council Work Session, the Mayor  expressed a desire to form a Council Committee to review the RFP responses from executive search firms concerning the City Administrator recruitment and to make its recommendation to the entire Council.  A Council Committee  is authorized by BMCC (City Code) Section 2-223 which provides that the Council may create Council committees as necessary. This committee must comply with open meeting laws.  Mayor Cole  and Council Members Brewster, Clark, Gibbs, Joy and Yakawich expressed interest in being on this committee.  Under BMCC 2-223 the creation of this type of committee does not require a Resolution, as does an ad-hoc Council and citizen committee.  However, staff recommends for clarity, that the Council formally approve the membership and define the Committee's responsibilities.

City Council may:

• Approve the creation of a Council Committee to review RFP responses from executive recruitment companies, or;
• Disapprove of the creation of  such a Committee.

There is minimal financial impact for the creation and operation of the Council Committee.  The recruiting firms' proposals will include costs and will require an undetermined amount of staff support and time. 

Staff recommends that the Mayor and Council form a Committee composed of members Cole, Yakawich, Brewster, Joy, Gibbs and Clark to review the executive search companies' proposals, make recommendations to the Council  and to specify any other Committee responsibilities.