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Okay, you guys ready? Okay, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you all for being here. We certainly appreciate your time.

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participating in this civic event of our public work session.

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

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

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After that, we will have our work session.

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

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and the meeting is the appointment of Sherry Hobson,

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Matthews as our incoming city manager so again I'm calling this meeting to order

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let's go right down the line now roll call that the record show that all our

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president accounted for and councilman Gaynor is viewing us remotely and we'll

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move to item C which is comments from our citizens do we have any comments

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that's at this time.

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Seeing no movement, we'll move right past the public hearings

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and go to item E, which is the item for discussion. And that is the appointment of Sherry Hopson

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Matthews as our incoming city manager, the approval of the professional services contract

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and the approval of the city manager employment contract.

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And just so everyone knows who she is, she'll be sitting on her front row and I'll do a

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brief introduction just shortly.

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So we'll have our city attorney to share any of the information that you'd like to share

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in this talk.

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Sure.

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Mayor and council, you have in front of you a couple of different agreements.

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One is the city manager employment agreement.

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That's the employment agreement.

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take effect once the City Manager is appointed and assumes the role of City Manager.

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We also have a consulting agreement that we've put together for kind of the interim time,

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which allows the tops of Matthews the opportunity to kind of get to know our staff, set out goals and priorities,

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both in the short and long term, before she actually takes over the rent as City Manager

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and effective on Eric's retirement.

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And then, in addition to that, you have a resolution which essentially codifies or resolves

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the city's acceptance and the powers under the Charter.

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It's passed through a couple of drafts with those employment agreements.

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I'm happy to answer any questions you may have seen this morning.

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We made one slight change to the consulting agreement,

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and I'm happy to answer any questions that arise from that.

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I will read through the recommendation.

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The recommendation is to appoint Sherry Hobson-Matthews as city manager effective September 11th,

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2026 at 5 p.m., approve professional services contract allowing the retention of Sherry Hobson-Matthews

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as a consultant during the transitional period, and to approve the employment contract for

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Sherry Hobson-Matthews for employment as city manager, the background.

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With the current city manager retiring on September 11,

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2026 at 5 p.m., the city has engaged in extensive search for a new city manager,

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the charter vests, the mayor and council with the authority to appoint city manager

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to serve as the city's chief executive officer.

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After a view of the numerous candidates, the city announced Shariah Hobson-Matthews as city's sole finalist.

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The attached resolution formalizes Ms. Hobson Matthews' appointment as of September 11th

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at 5 p.m. and allows the city to enter into agreements provided per as below.

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The contract for professional surfacers for consulting agreement with Ms. Hobson Matthews

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to allow her to provide the Mayor and Council with an efficient transition of the city's

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leadership and to allow Miss Hopson Matthews to the opportunity to begin

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certain short and long-term priorities. The employment agreement provides for the

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execution of employment agreement for Miss Hopson Matthews. It details her

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salary benefits as well as her long-term employment. The cost for the

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consulting agreement will be paid through will be paid through

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

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

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It's consistent with our comprehensive plan and the attachments that you have are of the resolution, appointing Sherry Hobson Matthews,

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professional services agreement and employment contract so at this time we will open the floor

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for discussion. Four questions from council.

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I have a question and just a quick question from the

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actual employment contract section six it reads the mayor council shall provide the employment

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with a written job evaluation at the time of our review

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and shall determine whether any adjustments

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in conversation provided the city manager should be made,

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provided it was super.

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Can we define that?

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And then at the option of the mayor council,

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this is my real concern here.

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The governing body may define detailed written goals

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and performance indicators that the body determines.

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Is that just giving us a lot of options there?

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because everything else is shall.

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We shall do this.

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So what is required is the evaluation in the annual.

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What I wanted to give some flexibility,

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and we did this with Eric's contract,

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is flexibility on exactly how we're defining goals

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and opportunities.

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And so that's why there's flexibility

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that's built into the latter half of that paragraph

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as opposed to inflexibility at the top.

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The shalls came from the prior agreement.

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We certainly could make them maize, but my understanding was...

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Well, I like the flexibility of having, ensuring that she gets an annual review, I think it's been beneficial to her.

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And to all of us, the maya, I think, gives us some flexibility, so thank you for pointing that out.

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I guess we just kind of continue with what we've been doing with this current city manager's best practices.

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This is kind of what we want to do.

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but I think having a retreat where we kind of define all that annual it should

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be our expectation going forward just to set everyone up for success I don't want to

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agree and we could do that offline if there's material changes that we need

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to make to this contract tonight how does that affect things in terms of don't

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we have to we have to make a decision on the contract tonight we do we don't

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have to make a decision on the contract tonight if they're there are

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material. Well, what do we do? What we don't have to? Well, the consulting agreement, right? It is

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effective. The employment contract. The employment contract, if we have some

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direction, we can take it back. I can just include in the resolution what

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changes made by council as to form if they're simple. If it's something that

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we actually deal with, that we need to negotiate, we throw this on to the next

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council meeting, which I think is the 9th, 8th.

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That doesn't set back her starting date.

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I guess the start date is the, yeah, Z11 at 5 o'clock.

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And we would allocate plenty of time for her to review

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and check with her council as well, right?

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Yeah, of course.

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Because I don't know the number that I don't know if I should,

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if they should all be talking about tonight or...

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Over here, you've got a number, a number of different things that I think we ought to address on this.

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You can share those to me.

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Okay, so are you done?

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I'm interested.

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Let me just, before you do, so you want a clarification of May and Shell?

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I'm good to go on what Bill said. If everyone else is good to go.

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Okay.

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The writing in here is fine with me.

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Okay, so for instance, the first one here is that we have this fixed term that ends August 30th,

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2029, right, in the election cycle, and there's nothing in there about renewal or it just ends.

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And so I'm wondering if it would be better if we had some kind of a automatic renewal

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or a 90 or 800 day notice of non-renewal just so there's not something strange that ends up happening there.

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Oh, that's interesting.

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It's right in the middle of an election cycle, you know.

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I don't know best practice on that though.

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Best practice to be is an automatic renewal.

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so we have we have it's a three-year an annual term three three years with

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automatic renewals we can we can add an additional renewal I need to of course

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speak with Matthews if she's willing to do that we can do that four-year

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automatic renewals annually it's a three year three year we could add a fourth year

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you could add a fourth year yeah

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So there's different ways you can do it. And I don't want to set up my successor, but I'll tell you in my case,

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I talked to you about it early and you extended my original three-year contract by four years.

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So I think the key, and I think on her behalf, she will be interested as early as possible to get a sense of

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If you're happy that you let her know that by doing an extension well before you get close enough that

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the city manager has to start looking for the next shot.

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I understand. Okay, so it's flexible.

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And I don't believe it's her, but I don't have a stake in this, but I know the feeling of wondering whether you're going to get your contract renewed.

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You know, I think during an annual evaluation, you could kind of take that up, and I appreciate

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what you did that for me.

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I think to that point, we could also revisit that particular details in that.

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Like year two, year three, before we get to year four, we can say, hey, we see the trajectory here.

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they may be ready to move, they may not be ready to move that person and then we

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can make a decision at that point in time. We should we'll know the last year

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of the contract so probably not something that we need to put in an

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automatic renewal now. I think we should have that discussion a year from now or

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two years from now or three years from now we can say hey this is what we

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decided to do because the world changes so quickly. We didn't know what we

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didn't know when we brought Eric in. It just gives us maximum flexibility as

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as well, right?

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This current contract down to three years, August 32 and 29.

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229, yeah.

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And then before in 27, 28,

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we should be making the decision.

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I wouldn't want to get to August, 2029,

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and not know up until the automatic renewal.

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We should probably do our due diligence

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well in advance of that.

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And so this should force our mechanism to say,

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there's no automatic, so we need to go do something.

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The next one is that,

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Well, let me just add, I think legally, you can't buy newer councils coming in.

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Future councils, right, and that's why the term is annual with an automatic renewal.

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Just the term sheet I got was three years, that's the term that I put in the agreement.

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But certainly council wants to have some kind of mechanism, we can do that.

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I think the mechanism that was intended was just this check-in, this annual check-in.

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But again, if we want to do something else, that's what we can.

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We also check in after automatic renewal.

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Absolutely, yeah.

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At least we'll be able to check in when it's after given news.

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Just a little hug.

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You're next.

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No release of claims.

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So if there ends up being a payout,

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those cities pay out some sort of standard,

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usually that there's a release of claims.

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If we do a six month,

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you know, if there's a severance.

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Yeah, so one issue is we can't ask somebody

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to release prospective claims, so future claims

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that have not arisen.

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We can't require that to be done.

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Now, I will say in the normal course of negotiations

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and working through an event where a severance is triggered,

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there is a discussion regarding that severance provision.

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and the waiver of claims, and that would ordinarily be done at that time.

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So we're not waiving our right to trade.

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That's right.

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next thing is that apparently cause is effectively not defined, is undefined a little bit,

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because it says shall include but not limited to, and maybe we ought to be putting in there

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things like clear things like misappropriation of city funds, falsification of records, breaches of the charter, and our city banal policy.

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So cause is defined as professional misconduct among others.

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Issues and professional misconduct is defined. Willful disregard of express directed by mayor

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and council. Refusal to abate reasonable lawful orders in

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mayor and council. Willful neglect of duties, violation of the city code of ethics.

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Do you not think that's too loose? I don't, because I think it defines a pretty

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wide breadth of conduct that would arise from creating cause.

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the kind of balance that you have to play when you're defining causes you don't

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want to be too particularly targeted because there are circumstances that

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may be outside of that that if you use broad statements would capture it but

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if you use precise language may not so there is a balance that you do want to

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play to make sure that you're keeping broad language obviously if there is

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specificity it's very important that this council tell me and we will make

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sure that's in there right it's not like we have to choose broad or specific we

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can choose both I think what happened with mr. Johnson's contract and it was

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just a lot of it just wasn't as robust as his contract or better at Morris I think

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that's maybe where a little bit of our fear comes from it's we want to make

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sure this works for her for the citizens so how much we started from

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ground floor on this contract right ground floor but plus we exchanged some

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kind of templates early on it's just kind of talk about what are what are kind of

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negotiable points.

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Any other questions? Comments or concerns?

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Okay. I haven't heard from council.

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Chair will entertain a motion.

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How are we doing all three at once?

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Suggestion from city attorney?

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Actually let's have three separate motions. So appointment, independent,

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it consulting agreement motion to

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the point Sherry having Matthews the

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city managers effective September 11th

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2026 at 5 p.m. second well motion and

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second on the floor do we have any

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discussion here none all in favor that

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be known by raising your right hand to

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sing aye. Aye. Oppose the same side. Motion passes. Welcome.

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I can make a motion to approve professional services contract a lot for the retention of

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sharing ops and Matthews as a consultant during the transitional period second

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it's been motion and second to approve any objections to moving the question forward just

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clarification we're defining transitional period here from now until date until September 11th

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The other question is the objection to moving the question you're not all in favor they'd be known by raising your right hand saying

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Opposed the same sign motion passes

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Okay, make a motion to approve the employment contract for sharing Alps and Matthews for her employment as city manager

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With motion on the floor

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motion and second on board. Any further discussion?

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The objection to moving the question. Seeing none, all in place, will it be known by raising your right hand and saying aye?

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Aye.

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Opposed to the same sign. Thank you, Bruce. Okay. Again, welcome aboard. I'm going to ask that Sherry come up and we'll formally introduce her.

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And if you'll come to the podium, I'll let you come to the podium.

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So it is my pleasure to introduce the city of Norcross's incoming manager, Sherry Hopson Matthews.

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Sherry is an accomplished local government executive with extensive experience in strategic planning,

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organizational leadership, community development, budgeting, and public administration.

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And before joining Norcross, she served Henry County's government for more than a decade, that's a long time.

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including as county manager. She holds a master in urban and regional planning from Alabama A&M, but we won't hold that again.

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And her leadership has been recognized with several honors including the Jerry R. Griffin Excellence in Public Service Award,

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the Georgia City County Management Association Pillars of Excellence Award,

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and recognition as one of the Southern Crescent's top 50 women of influence.

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And Sherry is known as a collaborative, thoughtful, and results-oriented leader who values transparency,

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accountability, and strong community relationships.

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And her exceptional public service is well-known throughout the study.

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And we're excited to welcome her to the City of Noracoss and we look forward to her experience,

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her leadership and the vision that she will bring to the city.

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Please join me in welcoming my new...

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Mayor and Council, thank you all so very much, and to the community, thank you.

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I am truly elated to stand before you all as the incoming City Manager for the City

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of Noracoss.

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I will tell you that the path here has been nothing but delightful.

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I have had so many residents, business owners, community leaders reach out, and so I am extremely

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excited.

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So Mayor, Council, thank you all for seeing in me this leadership that I'm ready to bring

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forth and to work with the employees of the City of North Cross.

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I do have to pause because I think I am the reason y'all reached your limit for

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the number of individuals here this night, but I have a very strong village and so

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I certainly want to recognize my husband who's here tonight, my parents that are

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here as well.

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my daughter and her fiance and then I also have some Henry County people that

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are here that just absolutely lovely so thank you all for your support I am

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excited to be here I'm excited to set the standard and I'm excited to see what

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we are going to bring to the city of Norcross so thank you for trusting me

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thank you I certainly want to perform this evaluation Eric thank you for four

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years because that gives me a piece of my

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I don't even know if that is service or something.

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But again thank you all so very much and I will be here

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right early in the morning and I am ready to get started so

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thank you all very very much.

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Thank you.

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Congratulations.

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Congratulations.

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Thank you.

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Thank

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you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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See you in the morning.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Okay, that was the last agenda item for a special call meeting.

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We're gonna need some transitional period, I've been notified by Tecnic or

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we're gonna have to do some change over stuff.

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So again, thank you all for being here.

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We'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

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Motion to adjourn.

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Second.

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Motion second to adjourn.

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The objection.

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All in favor?

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Motion passes.

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Thank you all.

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for a moment there like that, that was quick.

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Thank you for coming.

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Thank you for that.

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Thank you so much.