Mayor Issues Reassurance: City Manager Will
Be Chosen In ‘Thoughtful, Independent’ Way
The editorial in this week’s Hometown Oneonta & Freeman’s Journal newspapers called for Oneonta’s Common Council to convene a broader search committee, including community members, to select a new city manager to, as the headline states, “Ensure Oneonta’s Professional Management Is Model For County.”
In a response issued this afternoon, Mayor Dick Miller, while disagreeing that the search committee needs expanding, issued a reassurance: “It has been and will continue to be the council’s decision as to how this search is conducted and who will be chosen as our next city manager. While it is true that I advise and guide the council, please be assured that each member is certainly capable of making thoughtful, independent decisions which I, as the city’s mayor, will fully respect.”
Here are the texts of the editorial and Mayor Miller’s response: