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Emada E. Tingirides. The city did not set specific parameters around gender or racial identity in seeking police chief applications (doing so would be illegal), but it has been widely believed among local criminal justice reformers and some police backers that Austin’s next police chief should not be a white man. (It appears that only Ramsay, currently police chief in Wichita, Kansas, fits that description). Hiring a woman or person of color would represent a symbolic departure from the tenure of former APD Chief Brian Manley – and an important step in signifying to the public and depart...

Jay Melder has been appointed as Savannah’s next city manager. Melder, who currently serves as assistant city administrator of Washington, D.C., will begin his tenure Sept. 10. Melder's appointment came with a unanimous 9-0 vote from council after a nearly four-hour meeting on Thursday. The mayor and aldermen will vote on the terms of his contract at the next council meeting following the completion of a background check. “We congratulate Mr. Melder and we thank council in particular for your diligent and very hard work during this entire process,” Mayor Van Johnson said. Acting City M...

City of Reno creates new ‘Office of Innovation and Experience’ Share City of Reno officials on Wednesday announced the creation of a new Office of Innovation and Experience to be housed within the City Manager’s office. The move was touted as an effort to enhance customer service for citizens seeking information or submitting complaints to the city through its Reno Direct call line. “Ideally, what this will help us do is it will help us keep better track of what the complaints are, what they come from, what time of year, so that we can be more proactive in how we address some of the...

The position became vacant with the retirement of Ken Ball this past February.

Following two days of closed session interviews last week with four finalists vying for the position of Savanah City Manager, council hopes to narrow the field to three candidates within the next seven to 10 days. Those three finalists will likely make a visit to Savannah toward the end of the month.  "I’m thoroughly pleased with what we have and I think that easily we can consider one of these folks to be our city manager," Mayor Van Johnson told the Savannah Morning News last week.  Johnson said the search process, which is the second one taken on by the current council, has been smooth...