On August 22, 2024, the Sitka City and Borough Assembly held a special meeting at 6:00 PM to interview two applicants for the Municipal Attorney position: John Wolfe and Cheryl McKay. The Assembly also discussed next steps, including advancing candidates to a second round of interviews.
Uh Thursday, August twenty second, twenty twenty four. Please join me for a flag salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. The Assembly of the City and Borough of Sitka would like to respectfully acknowledge the traditional first people of Sheetka. With gratitude, we proceed on Clinkett Ani. Sarah Roll call, please. Mayor Eisenbeis. Present. Mr. Mosier? Here. Mr. Pike. Here. Mr. Yestad. Here. Mr. Christensen. Here. Ms. Carlson. Here. And Mr. Selene. Here. Uh, thank you. That'll bring us to our new business tonight. Uh, as I indicated earlier, um, we're here tonight to interview two municipal attorney um applicants. Um first we'll have a uh John Wolfe, and then second this evening will be uh a Cheryl McKay. Um Josh, do you have some uh general thoughts for us this evening as we proceed? Thank you. Good evening. Josh Brantuber, human resources director for the city. Uh Mr. Mayor, similar to uh an assembly, similar to last time. I provided um as a as a uh read ahead some general questions. There were a couple modifications uh with some asterisks on there um as it as last time, those are proposed questions in general. The more um the more that we keep the process uh uh equal across the board for questions, the better. Um, but as as last time you're able to ask questions that are important to you and that you value. Uh also I sent a read ahead um same as last time for uh questions to avoid, things to avoid related to discriminatory uh factors and um just to make sure we're uh staying applicable uh in alignment with applicable law. Um as Mr. Mayor, as you already said, we have two tonight. Um I've uh kind of gave a a uh general guideline of uh about an hour per interview and as needed, uh whatever you guys need after that for each one. And I have both applicants standing by for uh my contact to get started. That's all I got. Uh any questions for HR before we begin this process? Uh any questions the assembly has tonight. I know we've done this several times now, we should be pretty comfortable with it, but okay, thank you, Josh, and uh we can get our first applicant um on the line.