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WHEREAS, Section 2-12.1.13 also states that no Council Member may nominate no <br />more than three(3) candidates for appointment to the Review Board and requires at least one (1) <br />Board Member be appointed from each City Councilmanic district; and <br />WHEREAS, no candidates for the Director position have been interviewed since the <br />previous Director resigned on August 20, 2021 and no process has been approved or written to <br />provide a guide or framework for Council as Council reviews and selects its candidates for <br />Director, as required by the Ordinance and as stated above; and <br />WHEREAS, applications for Review Board Members were first accepted during the <br />summer of 2021, but none have been selected and no process has been written or approved to <br />provide a guide or framework for Council as Council reviews and selects its appointees for <br />Review Board Members; and <br />WHEREAS, Council must fulfill its commitment to the community in a written and <br />transparent process and move forward the both the processes of reviewing & selecting applicants <br />for the Director and reviewing and appointmenting Review Board Members; and <br />WHEREAS, Council believes that selection process plans should now be approved and <br />put into place so that the process may begin and work on the Review Board Office can move <br />forward. <br />NOW, THEREFORE,be it RESOLVED that the Common Council of the City of <br />South Bend now do hereby agree and commit to the two selection processes as follows: <br />Section One. <br />REVIEW & SELECTION PROCESS FOR THE DIRECTOR. <br />1. All applicants from the spring 2021 hiring process have been previously notified of re- <br />opening of the application process and Human Resources has continued to collect <br />applications since late November. <br />2. The position will remain open and posted on the City website until such time as the <br />position is filled. <br />3.If at any point in this process no applicants in the pool are determined to be qualified or <br />all applicants have been removed from consideration, the City shall locate and hire a <br />recruiting company as soon as possible to assist in the search for qualified applicants and <br />creation of a new pool of applicants using the process of this Resolution.