A recommendation will be made Tuesday to the Alma City Commission for a candidate for the city’s public safety administrator.
Only one person, a candidate from within the city police department, applied for the position, according to city manager Matt Schooley, who interviewed the candidate on Friday. He said he did not involve the community hiring panel because there was only one candidate.
The candidate’s name has yet to be publicly revealed, according to Schooley.
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More information will be available at the meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Alma Municipal Building at 525 E. Superior Street. A work session precedes it at 5:30 p.m.
“There will be a change in the way the role functions,” Schooley said Thursday.
Once the public safety administrator is hired and put into place, a police commander and fire commander will run each department’s day-to-day operations.
It will be up to the administrator about who will be in the police commander position but fire chief Harold House will remain as the fire commander, Schooley said.
“Outwardly, it won’t look any different most likely,” Schooley said.
The administrator will have duties surrounding policies and procedures, for example.
Half of the funding for the administrator position will come from the police department while the other half will come from the fire board the department is part of.
A salary has yet to be determined.
Also at the meeting:
• the commission will discuss the medical marijuana facilities ordinance that it was sent from the planning commission earlier this month. No action can be taken by the city commission on the ordinance yet;
• a contract with information technology assistance provider IT Right will also be on the agenda. The commission will consider approving an agreement for the city to use the company’s services for $7,000 from April to June of this year. Once the commission has passed and implemented its fiscal year 2018-19 budget after July 1, a new agreement will be drafted between the city and IT Right from July to June 2019 that could cost $28,000. Although Karl Hagen is the city’s treasurer - he was appointed treasurer last year from the IT Director position - Hagen never stopped his IT responsibilities, according to city clerk Sheila Letourneau. Hagen will still be a point of contact between the city and IT Right. The city police department already uses IT Right’s services.