Summary
From the Chamber's perspective, the CAO Recruitment Strategy is not ideal, yet it strikes close enough to our recommendations on best practices to make us feel confident that the City is pursuing the spirit of our recommendations to conduct an open, transparent, and thorough search process for the best candidate possible. We continue to maintain that the executive search firm should play a more forward role in the recruitment process to negate the impact of existing biases so that the eventual choice is as objective as possible. We also maintain that proposed resolutions on this issue should be made available to the public in advance of votes on them with sufficient time for citizens and interest groups to discuss the proposals with the councilors who represent them.