Reno's Interim City Manager Will Not Seek Permanent Appointment

Interim Reno City Manager Donna Dreska, who has had the job since the May, 2009 departure of former manager Charles McNeely, has formally announce that she will not apply for the position on a permanent basis. Her preference is to revert to her previous position as chief of staff, the job she held starting in 2007 under McNeely. Dreska has agreed to remain on until a new manager is hired.

Manager applicants are being sought nationwide. In April, the Reno City Council hired a Sacramento outfit to do the recruiting and come up with a list of viable candidates. According to Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, "We had already scheduled to do a national search for a new city manager, but we had postponed it until December. Donna needed to make up her mind if she was going to be an applicant or not." How long the search might take now that Dreska has bowed out was not mentioned by my sources.

Source: KTVN Channel 2, Reno Gazette-Journal.

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