By WHITNEE ICE
St. Joseph Post
St. Joseph is looking for a new City Manager, again.
St. Joseph begins the search for the next City Manager after Gary Edwards resigned just two months after accepting the position.
Mayor Bill McMurray says the search firm Baker Tilly has already started the process to find the next City Manager, at no cost to St. Joseph.
“The firm we used to hire Garry, Baker Tilly had a clause in their contract that there would be no charge if this didn’t work out,” McMurray tells St. Joseph Post.
McMurray says the firm is ahead of schedule, since it just concluded the process that brought Edwards to the city from Aransas Pass, Texas.
McMurray says Edwards resigned from his position as City manager due to family matters.
“The overall feeling, like my feeling, is just kind of shock and dismay that were losing a good city manager,” says McMurray.
McMurray says Baker Tilly is well underway with the search process.
“They have already started advertising. They’re going to do that for four to six weeks and at the conclusion of that they’re going to have a list of candidates that the council will pare down.”
McMurray hopes the City Council can fill the position by late May, early June.