Call this meeting committee to hold to order.

And we have an action-packed agenda today.

Two resolutions.

First is a resolution to approve uh Commissioner Sasi's travel to the local national uh the local government Hispanic Network 2026 conference.

Uh motion.

So move support.

Any discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Motion carries.

I don't I can vote for okay.

Um think you're getting any money out of this, you're just getting to go somewhere.

Um so uh second up is a resolution to schedule uh meetings for first ward city commission vacancy interviews and Mr.

Clerk, if you want to speak to this.

Uh before you do that, we're gonna move support.

Thank you.

Yes, so without a robust um conversation a while back about this first award city commissioner vacancy.

We came up with a um a timeline, and then the next step was to figure out what are the next um special meetings to do that.

So one is gonna be on uh for the committee of appointments on April 17 on that Friday for the committee on appointments to do first round interviews, and then the second one is on Wednesday the 2nd at 10 10 a.m.

or following the Brownfield um meeting, and then that will be to um interview any finalists that the committee on appointments moves forward.

Thank you.

Um we all got information on that, but I want to make sure that the public heard it.

So um feel free, folks, to reach out to us and anyone who's interested in applying.

I believe the application process is still open.

Yeah, this is it's another week.

Um applications are due on the 24th at five o'clock.

Okay, thank you.

So we've had people before who applied after the deadline, and that doesn't work, turns out.

Um so uh any other discussion on that item.

No.

Seeing none, all in favor say aye.

Aye, all opposed.

Motion carries.

That brings us to our briefing, our sole briefing, and our uh interim city attorney is gonna step down because this is a discussion of uh hiring a uh new city attorney.

Good morning, Mayor and Commissioners.

For the recruitment of our next city attorney, the city engaged Greg Nelson and his firm Mosaic Public Partners, which specializes in executive recruitment for public sector and local government leadership positions.

Greg and his team have been working with the city to conduct a national search and evaluate highly qualified candidates for this very important role.

This morning, Greg will provide an overview of the search process and introduce us to the backgrounds of the recommended candidates for consideration.

At this time, I'd like to welcome Greg Nelson.

Greg, I'll turn it over to you.

Thank you, Abel, and uh good to meet you all again.

It just seems like it wasn't that long ago when I was here meeting for the first time, but that was back in November.

And we are midway through the search uh where this is the opportunity for us to see who the candidates are in consideration and then discuss through next steps.

So just to recap, um that was back in November when we kicked off the search uh with a series of meetings with each of you with uh the law community with the stakeholders in the broader community, and also uh employees in the law department were offered an opportunity to submit information via survey, and there's a so community survey as well, and all of that input helped shape the candidate profile that we were used to market the position.

The position was open on January 12th and closed on February 23rd.

Um I'll just kind of re go back through the timeline that we discussed before.

Uh we'll we'll review the candidate pool, discuss recommended candidates and next steps.

And so those those are the three broad elements of the search process, the candidate profile development we just talked about.

We just completed outreach and recruiting, and we're moving into the selection process.

And this is the timeline that was presented to the commission in November, and we're on track with the timeline that was presented previously.

Uh in total, there were nine candidates that submitted interest in the position.

One withdrew just days ago, leaving us with eight, and we have three candidates that were recommending to advance.

These three candidates were those that were most aligned with the candidate profile.

All three are attorneys in Michigan with significant municipal experience, which was highlighted as an important attribute for in the candidate profile.

Two of those candidates are internal candidates.

One is an external candidate.

And I just mentioned local government Hispanic Network was one of the sites that we had advertised with amongst several others.

I just noticed that on the screen earlier.