By Sheila Mullane Estrada, Times Correspondent
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
MADEIRA BEACH — Hoping the third try will be the charm, last week the City Commission set a goal of early December to hire a new city manager.
The commission tried to find a new manager on its own, offering the job to two candidates. Both rejected the offers during contract negotiations.
Now city leaders have hired a national executive recruiting firm, Colin Baenziger & Associates, which is based in Wellington.
Since 1998, the firm has conducted more than 100 successful manager searches, mostly in Florida, including the cities of Gulfport, Bartow, Daytona Beach, Gainesville, Coral Gables, Cape Canaveral, Homestead and Key Biscayne, as well as Polk, Brevard, Flagler, Baker, Bay, Clay and St. Johns counties.
Two-thirds of the selected candidates are still working for the governments that hired them, according to the company.
The firm is charging the city $20,000 ...