Newport Metropolis Council will conduct interviews in Government Session for the Place of Metropolis Supervisor on Wednesday, April 3, at 10:30 a.m.
The Government Session will happen within the Floor Flooring Convention Room at Newport Metropolis Corridor.
After 37 years with the Metropolis, longtime Newport Metropolis Supervisor Joseph J. Nicholson, Jr. stepped down from public service and his function as Metropolis Supervisor in September 2023. Nicholson is now the CEO of Bowen’s Wharf.
On February 5, 2024, Newport Metropolis officers introduced that they’d start formally reviewing purposes from greater than two dozen candidates for the town supervisor place. The announcement comes after the Metropolis Council concluded its January search of 27 candidates from 13 states.
“As a part of the Metropolis Supervisor choice course of, a three-member screening committee will advocate candidates to the Metropolis Council, which can then be topic to a collection of council-led interviews,” the Metropolis of Newport shared in February. “The committee shall be comprised of senior state and municipal administration professionals and shall be chosen by Metropolis Council members. The committee’s names won’t be launched till the screening course of is full, which is anticipated by February 15”.
In accordance with Metropolis officers in February, “the primary spherical of interviews shall be held by way of Zoom on February 15, with a second and closing spherical of interviews slated to be held in particular person earlier than a closing willpower is made. Town additionally plans to conduct a public survey as a part of the choice course of”.
The Metropolis Supervisor is answerable for overseeing all day-to-day operations, managing a workers of 350 personnel, and main the town’s authorities council.
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