Magnolia hires firm to begin search for a city engineer
Published: Thu, 03/16/23
Magnolia hires firm to begin search for a city engineer
The city of Magnolia will begin searching for an in-house city engineer after City Council approved a proposal for executive recruitment services at its March 14 meeting.
(Lizzy Spangler/Community Impact)
Community Impact
By Lizzy Spangler
Updated
The city of Magnolia will begin searching for an in-house city engineer after City Council approved a proposal from Strategic Government Resources for executive recruitment services at its March 14 meeting.
“This is basically a recruitment firm,” Mayor Todd Kana said during discussion of the proposal. “We haven’t had much luck in filling our city engineer spot. And again, this is in no way a person or situation that’s going to replace what AEI [Engineering] does.”
The cost for the executive recruitment services is not to exceed $24,900, which does not include ad placement costs, according to the proposal included in the March 14 agenda packet.
City Administrator Don Doering said some of the tasks the in-house city engineer will do will include reviewing plans, supervising construction and inspections.
“A lot of cities have a city engineer that reviews plans like Don stated, but whenever we have plant designs or major street designs or road construction, we usually hire an outside firm to do that,” City Attorney Leonard Schneider said during discussion.