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1038 Highlland Woods Chapel Hill, NC 27514 April 12, 1988 Mr. Blair D. Bennett County Prudltu~ /~ ~ Caba~'rus County P. O. Box 707 Concord ~ NC 28025 Dear Blair: This is in response to your call yesterday regarding ~y assisting ~he County Co~issioners in reviewing the applications for the position of county ~anager. I will be happy to try to assist the County Co~issioners in screening th~ applications. I am ple~bed to know that you are phonir~g the notice so that it can be included in the April 25 issue of the ~ I wc, uld suggested that the Board also publicize the vacancy in your local paper, in the Sunday edition of the ~~ ~R~, and in the next issues of the ~ ~ ~B~X ~iB~. Because of the rapid turnaround ti~e and bi-~onthly publication s~hedule, the ~~ is the fastest way of getting the notice to in-s~ate ~anagers. This publicity and the general attractiveness of Ca~)arrus County and the position should result in ~any well qualified applications as well as ~any applicants of lesser qualifications. I a~ enclosing a copy of the last seventeen pages of the revised Chapter 2 (the County ~anager> for the new edltior~ of County Goverrm~enb in North Carolina. I hope the ~l~bers of the Board will find it helpful. I would like to ~eet with the Board on or before June 2nd to hear fro~ the~ the criteria they want used in screening the applications. I hope all of the applications can be copied so that the originals can be kept in Concord, and I can bring the copies back to read and investigate. At that ti~e I will be happy to discuss the interview procedure with the~ if they desire. After hearing what they are looking for in a county ~anager~ I could prepare suggested questior~s which they ~ight want to consider using i~ ~nterviewing the applicants. I was always proud of one aspect of ~y ~8 plus years with the Institute. That was the policy that we provided ~he sa~e service to those govern~ental units who couldn't or shouldn't pay as to ~hose that could pay. Albert Coates asked me to try to pro~ote the cour~ty ~anager plan of govern~ent forty years ago. There were only six county ~anagers in 1948. Even ~hough I a~ retired I war~t to help counties if I car~. In ~he past six ~m~nths ~he Town of Gary, and Iredell, a~d Stanly counties have asked ~e to screen and investigate their manger