The Clarendon City Council considered applicants for city administrator and identified four candidates for interviews during its regular meeting last week.
This is the second round of searching the city has undertaken as City Administrator David Dockery plans for retirement. A first round search and subsequent interviews were not successful earlier this year.
The four candidates this time are Steve Coles, manager of Lowe’s Family Center in Clarendon; Brian Barboza, City Administrator at Knox City; Melissa Fields-Allgeyer, Director of Human Resources at the City of Levelland; and Brent Spier, City Administrator of Clear Lake Shores, Texas.
Barboza was also a finalist in the first search.
All four candidates will be interviewed during a called meeting on May 10.
In other city business, the council considered the upcoming season for the Clarendon Aquatic Center and left the hours as 1 to 8 p.m. but changed the opening and closing dates. Instead of opening Memorial Day weekend and closing Labor Day weekend, the center will open May 26, which is the day after school closes, and it will close the day before school starts this fall.
Annette Osburn and Becky Lane were named the election judge and clerk for the upcoming city election on May 6.
The council approved hiring attorney Marvin Jones to review the city’s obligations to the Greenbelt Municipal & Industrial Water Authority and also contracted with Perdue Brandon to handle delinquent utility accounts.
Resolutions were adopted to move forward with applications for a second round of downtown revitalization and another Community Development Block Grant.
An ordinance was adopted to approve the franchise agreement of G&L Utilities, dba GreenLight Gas.
Christ Kids Ministry presented a request for assistance with its summer food program, and the council approved $1,000 for that program.
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