For City Council Meeting [July 13, 2021]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Marcus Fuller, City Manager
FROM: Stephen Erlandson, Deputy City Manager
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Request City Council to Authorize the City Manager to enter into Professional Services Agreements with Executive Recruiting Firms for a Not-to-Exceed amount of $150,000.
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BACKGROUND
The City of Rialto currently has numerous vacant positions at the executive and senior management levels, in addition to some of these same positions being temporarily filled on an interim basis. Staff has attempted to fill many of these vacancies over the past year but has had limited success in finding qualified talent and/or candidates desiring a long-term permanent position with the City.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
To advance the goals of the City Council, the City Manager believes that is of the upmost importance to fill the current vacancies at the executive and senior management levels of the organization. Currently those positions are Community Development Director and Human Resources/Risk Management Director. As such, staff has compiled the following list of executive recruiting firms that specialize in public sector recruitments:
* Alliance Resource Consulting, LLC
* Bob Murray and Associates
* CPS HR Consulting
* Peckham and McKenney, Inc.
* Ralph Andersen and Associates
* Teri Black and Company, LLC
All of these firms provide executive search and consulting services to an array of cities, counties, special districts, state agencies, and other public sector organizations. These firms specialize in and have a broad reach and network to better provide a qualified pool of candidates for the critical open recruitments.
A single recruitment from any one of the aforementioned firms can be performed for approximately $25,000 per recruitment. In addition to the two director level positions previously mentioned, the need may arise where additional executive and senior management level recruitm...
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