Candidates for Lethbridge CAO position narrowed down

“We’ve reached a lot of people from coast to coast. And a lot of people have been approached.”

On Monday, April 27, Coffman says they got an updated list of candidates with the demonstrated competence to do the job. The committee has briefly gone through the profiles and during the week of May 7, the list will be shortened to about four.

During the second week of May there will likely be more interviews and will choose two or three to then make presentations to council.

The original timeline to have a candidate selected was mid-April, but Coffman says some of that is because they had so many briefing documents to go through.

“We had some suggestions and changes which bumped dates out a bit, so where we were hoping to have at least an offer out by the beginning of May, we’ve pushed that back a couple of weeks. This really is about getting the best person. So, if it’s going to take a little bit longer, it’s going to take a little bit longer.”

In the meantime, interim City Manager Kathy Hopkins will stay on, on a month-to-month basis and to help the successful new CAO learn the job.

Coffman can’t say at this point whether there are any in-house or local applicants, only that there are those who have an ‘understanding of the community’ who have applied for the position.

The hope is to have someone selected by early June.

by Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter

Candidates for Lethbridge CAO position narrowed down

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