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Why doesn’t the city manager need to be a resident of the city?

Category: City Manager
The charter commission believed that qualifications, rather than physical address, were the most important considerations for selecting a person to lead an increasingly complicated government operation. Ideally, the two would combine and the city manager would also be a local resident. However, the charter provides for a waiver from the residency requirement, which the city council has provided to the current city manager.
Updated 2/10/2020 3:28 PM
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