KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A deadlocked Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners has delayed picking their next administrator for two weeks.
None of the three finalists Tuesday could get the six commission votes needed after a motion to offer the post to Kevin Catlin failed. The meeting that lasted past midnight Wednesday morning.
Catlin, the former City Manager in nearby Springfield, Michigan, who now holds down a County Administrators post in Illinois was viewed as a more experienced candidate. County Commission Chairman Mike Quinn expressed reservations about his work history, saying Catlin had eight different jobs in the past 10-years, and wants to teach on the side.
After the marathon session, Commissioner Tracy Hall suggested they put off the “most important decision they will make this year” until their next meeting.
Job search consultant Ryan Cotton says there is danger in waiting, because there is competition for these candidates.
In a straw vote Shannon Aulabagh, a communications manager in Boulder, Colorado got five votes, Catlin got four, and Gerald Smith, a City Manager in North Carolina, got just one.
The board will take another vote at their next meeting in two weeks, if their candidates haven’t snapped up before then.
(reporting from John McNeill)
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