3/9/2015 TOWN MANAGER SCREENING COMMITTEE Minutes

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TOWN MANAGER SCREENING COMMITTEE MEETING MONDAY,MARCH 9,2015 OCKWAY MEETING ROOM Present: Andrew Gottlieb,Kathleen Moore, and Carol Sherman. Present via conference call: Chris Avis(plus did arrive 6:03 p,m.), and Jerry Carter. Audience: Sam Houghton—Mashpee Enterprise Chairman Andrew Gottlieb called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. and stated it was necessary to meet today at this time so as to be able to present a search firm recommendation to the Board of Selectmen meeting tonight since the Selectmen must approve the firm to be contracted. Andrew said the Committee cannot wait 2 more weeks for the next Selectmen meeting. Andrew pointed out that Town Counsel advised if the Screening Committee does not meet the 90-day timeframe imposed by the Charter,then whoever is hired would have to go to Town Meeting to be ratified. All agreed that was not a good approach. Approval of Minutes Carol Sherman motioned to accept the minutes of the March 3,2015 Meeting;Kathleen Moore seconded the motion. VOTE: Yes-5 Unanimous. Executive Search Firms The Committee discussed at length the Collins and MRI search firms and voiced their respective viewpoints. + Andrew said both he and Kathleen Moore spoke with Collins and stressed Committee's concerns on timing. As a result,they will be ready to start upon execution of the contract. Andrew said it was his understanding from the March 3 Committee meeting that if Collins could meet our timeframe,they were the preferred choice. + Collins did modify their proposal and will meet the timeframe; proposal from MRI is essentially unchanged from what was proposed last time. + Chris Avis and Jerry Carter both stated they would prefer both search firms come and give a proposal with pricing for the steps and breaking points priced out. + Andrew Gottlieb and Carol Sherman said they would like to hire a firm to do the whole process; Chris Avis and Jerry Carter think perhaps Police/HR could do some portion, which would probably save some cost. + Chris and Jerry voiced concern that no ads will be public until beginning of April. Andrew said he spoke with Collins about that and their methodology is to prepare the profile and run the ad from the profile. + Andrew said he and Kathleen looked at the calendar and if the Committee makes themselves available(maybe even on Friday or Saturday)to look at candidates,then timetable can be met.