{"id":18000,"date":"2016-11-16T19:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18000"},"modified":"2016-11-16T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:28:39","slug":"calling-all-city-manager-applicants-step-right-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18000","title":{"rendered":"Calling all city manager applicants: Step right up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/childers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11655\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/childers.jpg\" alt=\"childers\" width=\"286\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/childers.jpg 286w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/childers-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story will need some fleshing out, but I cannot help but offer a quick-hit comment.<\/p>\n<p>Amarillo interim City Manager Terry Childers has submitted his resignation. It appears he got angry with a resident and called him an SOB during\u00a0a City Council meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Paul Harpole asked Childers for his resignation and Childers delivered it today. The city is going to appoint Assistant City Manager Bob Cowell to the interim post.<\/p>\n<p>This is big news for an important reason. The city needs a permanent city manager. City Hall has been the picture of dysfunction since the May 2015 election of three new council members. Former City Manager Jarrett Atkinson quit &#8211;and now is about to be hired as the city manager in Lubbock; good for him! The council was looking actively for a new manager, then suspended its search; then it renewed it only recently.<\/p>\n<p>The issue facing the City Council now is simple: How does it present a city government that is functional, efficient and cohesive to the next band of city manager candidates willing to assume the awesome job of running a city of 200,000 residents &#8212; and more than its share of soreheads?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all stay tuned. This might get real good.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story will need some fleshing out, but I cannot help but offer a quick-hit comment. Amarillo interim City Manager Terry Childers has submitted his resignation. It appears he got angry with a resident and called him an SOB during\u00a0a City Council meeting on Tuesday. Mayor Paul Harpole asked Childers for his resignation and Childers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calling all city manager applicants: Step right up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[288,290,2418,5621],"class_list":["post-18000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-jarrett-atkinson","tag-terry-childers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18002,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000\/revisions\/18002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}