O’Fallon, Mo., closer to choosing police chief and city administrator
The search for a new O’Fallon, Mo., police chief and city administrator has been narrowed to just five candidates for each position.
In-person interviews are to begin later this month for the remaining five people still in the running for both jobs. The final choice will be made by Mayor Bill Hennessy, but committees composed of city employees, elected officials and O’Fallon residents have been reviewing applications and conducting telephone interviews for weeks.
The new city administrator will be an outsider because the remaining pool includes no candidates from the St. Louis area, city officials say.
The city on Thursday rejected the Post-Dispatch’s second request for a list of remaining candidates, citing an exemption in Missouri’s Sunshine Law protecting job applicants to government jobs.
Vicki Boschert, the city’s finance director, has served as acting city administrator since Robert Lowery Jr. resigned in June. Maj. Bill Seibert has served as interim police chief since Jerry Schulte retired in January.
Appointments for both jobs are expected by January.
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Have the salaries or the salary ranges for O’Fallon’s New City Adminstrator and O’Fallon’s New Police Chief been announced? There were considerable concerns in the past over the salaries of these positions and it would be interesting to learn what the City of O’Fallon is prepared to pay once the final decision is made.
Watchin’…Listenin…Carin’:
Councilman Dan Haney, a reader of Chas Beat, e-mailed me with this response to your question:
“The salaries have not been decided as of yet. Research shows the Chief pay is competitive for the area but we would like to save about 15% on the CA position. Of course this will be decided when we get into negotiations with the chosen candidates.”
Help me understand. If there have been two people filling these two jobs for the past few months,and I assume they have handled the job well,why look outside the box. Save everyone and the city any more concern,promote these two people to the job permanently.
Because the two people who are they do not meet the qualifications of the position as stated in the job vacancy.
Have the job descriptions, criteria, etc., for the positions of City Administrator and Police Chief been made available to anyone other than the candidates and the city officials/selected residents who are involved in the search for these two new employees of the city? I would hope that this information could be made available to the interested residents so that they know what is expected of these new employees and what criteria these new employees must have to even been considered. Could this information be found and posted here for those of us who follow our city?
It appears that there is very little interest here in the pay and the job descriptions, criteria and background of the two important positions with the City of O’Fallon. Hopefully, the correct decisions will be made by the mayor, the city councilmen on the search commmittees and the residents chosen to participate in the search. Time will tell….it always does.
Mayor and City Council:
It is high time to fire and replace the corrupt and ill-affective city attorney Kevin O’ Keefe. O’ Keefe is running our city in the hole with terrible legal advise, billing taxpayers ten of thousands of dollars in padded hours with zero accountablity. O’ Keefe was brought in by Lowery and Morrow. It is high time that O’ Keefe be released from his duties before he costs O’ Fallon millions. Please Mayor and City Council fire this creep and drunk from the Office of City Attorney!!!