Start date of the city administrator in the queue

Those who are waiting for a new city administrator to get into the saddle in Boulder City have to wait a little longer. Somewhere between four and six weeks.

The city council unanimously and without discussion on Tuesday to approved a change in the employment contract of NED Thomas to change its start date.

When the Council approved a number of changes to the preliminary contract in January, which he offered Thomas in November, the final contract asked to start its new job by March 15, which would take place on Saturday of this week.

In one point on the agenda for the session of this week, however, the employees asked the council to approve an extension to “on or around April 15, but at the latest 1st May” at the latest.

At the session there was no clarification of this vague explanation, and the council asked none and voted to appreciate the changes without discussion or questions.

When Thomas starts at the end of the newly approved time, Boulder City has a year without a year without a year without a year. The former city manager Taylor Tedder resigned on May 8th last year.

The director of the development of community developments Michael May has been working as a reigning city administrator since Tedder's departure. It served in the same position for about a year after a former city council released the then manager Al Noyola in 2020, which means that Mays has acted as a city manager in the past four and a half years.

The start date is the youngest in a number of contract changes since the council made a provisional job offer to Thomas in November last year.

In January met, met, discussed and approved several changes to Thomas Treaty. The simplest of the changes is the residence. According to the city's charter, the city administrator must be present in Boulder City. Thomas currently has a house in Henderson that is considered his residence, although he works in Milpitas every week in Milpitas, a city in the California Bay Area every week. The change in the contract gives Thomas up to one year to establish the stay in Boulder City.

The change that received most of the discussion was also presented as the fact that Thomas will search for a home in BC. There was a long discussion about the part of the contract proposed by Thomas. Basically, this is a separate break that can be used, but Thomas wants to use it. Although it has never been done so precisely, there is a precedent.

Both Tedder and the current lawyer of the city, Brittany Walker, received an additional grant of 80 vacation hours after employment. In other words, these were immediately available for hours and did not have to be recorded over time. But in the past there was no separate hours for the executive vacation. The justification in the past was that Tedder took time to find a house in Boulder City when he pulled out of Kansas. The justification for Walker, who already lived in the city, was that she was pregnant at the time when she took the job.

These were both unique grants for additional vacation time. Thomas will take 80 hours at the beginning of employment, but then another 80 hours a year in a bucket separated from vacation and sick times that corresponds to these balances every week. When Thomas, who appeared about a video link, was asked about the need, he found that, as Milpitas employees, he received 168 hours a year for more than seven years.

In addition, Thomas asked for a certain amount of money to reimburse him of the professional development. He said he wanted to use professional development funds to pursue certification as a city manager and check in from time to time with a professional trainer that he is already using.

Since the residence in Boulder City is a charta requirement for city administrators, Thomas has to move from Henderson. He asked and was given up to a reimbursement of 10,000 US dollars for the moving costs. He had originally asked 15,000 US dollars, but was used in the proposed changes after the agenda was published. In the original proposed changes, he also asked for a forgivable loan of 10,000 US dollars. It would be given as a moving bonus in the setting and then awarded as soon as it was used for a year. In a further change that the Council finally approved, the 10,000 US dollars were concluded as a retention bonus after Thomas was completed in the workplace for two years.