Okay, you guys ready?

Okay, good afternoon, everyone.

Thank you all for being here.

We certainly appreciate your time participating in this specific event of our public work session.

On the agenda for now, we're going to have two agendas.

The first is a special call meeting, and we'll conduct that one first.

And after that, we will have our work session.

But for this meeting, this is a special call meeting, and

the

meeting is the appointment of Sherry Hobson Matthews as our incoming city manager.

So again, I'm calling this meeting to order.

Let's go right down the line.

Uh roll call that the records show that all are present and accounted for.

And council McGaynor is viewing us remotely.

And we'll move to item C, which is comments from our citizens.

Do we have any comments at this time?

Seeing no movement, we'll move right past the public hearings and go to item E, which is the item for discussion, and that is the appointment of Sherry Hobson Matthews as our incoming city manager, the approval of the professional services contract, and the approval of the city manager employment contract.

And uh just so everyone knows who she is.

Sherry, Sherry's sitting on our front row, and I'll do a uh brief introduction just shortly.

So we'll have our city attorney to share any information that he'd like

to share at this time.

Sure.

Uh Mayor and Council, you have in front of you a couple of uh different agreements.

One is the uh city manager employment agreement, that's the employment agreement take uh effect once uh the city manager is appointed and assumes the role of the city manager.

We also have a consulting agreement uh that we put together for kind of the interim time, which allows

uh

Miss Hobson Matthews the opportunity to kind of get to know our staff, uh set out goals and priorities uh both in the short and long term uh before she actually takes over the reins as city manager and uh effective on Eric's retirement.

And

then in addition to that, you have a resolution uh which essentially codifies uh or or resolves uh the city's acceptance and the powers under uh the charter.

Um passed through a couple of drafts with those employment agreements.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

Uh you may have seen this morning we made one slight change to the consulting agreement.

Um happy to answer any questions that arise from from that.

So

I will uh read through the recommendation.

The recommendation is to appoint Sherry Hobson Matthews as city manager, effective September 11th, 2026 at 5 p.m.

Uh

approved professional services contract allowing the retention of Sherry Hobson Matthews as a consultant during the transitional period and to approve the employment contract for Sherry Hobson Matthews for her employment as city manager, the background with the current city manager retiring on September the 11th 2026 at 5 p.m.

The city has engaged uh an extensive search for a new city manager, the charter vests, the mayor and council with the authority to appoint city manager uh to serve as a city's chief executive officer.

Uh after review of the numerous candidates, the city announced Sherry Hobson Matthews as the city's sole finalist.

The attached resolution formalizes uh Ms.

Hobson Matthews appointment as of September the 11th at 5 p.m.

and allows the city to enter into agreements provided uh her

uh

as below.

The contract for professional services serves uh for a consulting agreement with Hobson with Ms.

Hobson Matthews to allow her to provide the mayor and council with an

efficient uh transition of the city's leadership and to allow uh Ms.

Hobson

Matthews to

the opportunity to begin uh certain short and long-term priorities.

The employment agreement provides for the execution of employment uh agreement for Ms.

Hobson Matthews.

It is it details her salary and benefits as well as her long-term employment.

The cost for the consulting agreement uh will be paid through will be paid through contingency.

Uh the cost for the employment agreement will be approximately equivalent to the cost for the position.

Any adjustment is expected to be within the contingency built into the mayor uh to the city manager budget, not the mayor's budget.

And

this

is