Thread by @shayshinecastle

Happening now: Appointment of the city manager.

Brockett and Young are on the recommendation subcommittee that picked Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde, from Austin, as the next city manager. Starting salary: $290K

Young: "We were just highly impressed with all the feedback we got from the community as well as staff. We just feel that she will do a fabulous job. Highly credentialed, highly experienced. We could not recommend her more highly."

Brockett: I hope council will support our recommendation to go negotiate with her and move this forward.

Yates moves to approve the consent agenda, which includes appointing NRV.

Friend seconds. "We're all excited that this is going out to her. ... I'm grateful we had two great finalists."

Swetlik: "I'm v much looking forward to Nuria joining us. ... Our new city manager will make about 3 councils' worth of money, which, I get it. It's hard to attract top talent. Just know that 1 city manager = 27 council members, approx."

"When you think about that, think about who is representing you because of things like that. ... Maybe we're not worth $11K a year, in many people's minds. But it's a worthy time to check in on that."

Friend: The issue for me isn't that we're compensating the city manager appropriately. It's that we're not compensating council appropriately.

HR director Jen Sprinkle with an explanation of why that starting salary is so high. Jane Brautigam retired after 12 years with a $271K salary.

Sprinkle: It reflects the previous salary and market forces. We're trying to recruit good candidates.

Austin, notably, pays it's city manager a bit more (as a bigger city). You can learn more about that here: boulderbeat.news/2021/02/27/cit…

Swetlik clarifying that he didn't mean we were paying NRV too much.

"I think our new city manager is going to be worth every single dollar, if not more."

I just think "you're not going to get the representation you think you are if you pay council members $11K a year," Swetlik says.

There have been several attempts in the past to pay full salaries for council. None successful.

Unanimous vote to appoint NRV as the new city manager. (along with the rest of the consent agenda)

NRV starts in May. I will be calling her NRV in tweets — unless she asks me not to — bc Rivera-Vandermyde is a v long name to type repeatedly. Many opportunities for typos.

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