RFP Staff
♦ On Tuesday evening the Salisbury City Council voted 5 to 0 to go ahead with making plans for hiring a new City Manager to replace “mutually terminated” Doug Paris. City Council decided to seek candidates for the city manager’s position from among their present staff and from outside the city government.
Like the last time they chose a city manager, they employed a search firm to assist them in the hiring process. City Council chose Mayor Paul Woodson and Assistant City Manager Zach Kyle to review price quotes from several companies specializing in governmental executive head-hunting. The pair will return with their findings to city council on October 7th.
Hopefully City Council will actually listen to their “head-hunters” this time around because according to city hall insiders City Council from the outset had Doug Paris first and foremost in mind and just went through the motions with their head-hunter charade. Even though Doug was chosen because they believed he would hide the immense skeletons in City Hall’s closet, the hiring of Doug Paris as city manager proved a disaster and ended in his infamous “mutual termination” on June 17th. John Sofley is currently serving as the interim city manager.
In recent days a county manager from outside of Rowan told us Doug Paris applied for jobs as an assistant manager in Davidson County and Concord, N.C. His reputation is pretty well known across much of North Carolina and may serve as a major impediment to employment.
