Dormont Receives 20 Manager Applications

President Bill McCartney said he hadn’t been able to guess how many resumes the borough might receive when it advertised the borough manager position.

He said he now knows he shouldn’t have worried. Applications for the position closed Friday, and 20 were received.

“Some people said we wouldn’t get many, but we got 20,” he said. “I’m pretty excited about that.”

The advertisement was posted on the borough’s website through April, and also was advertised in a number of print publications throughout the area.

McCartney said Foreman has created a table that will allow council members to look first at the applicants’ qualifications, without knowing the applicants names.

An executive session is scheduled for Wednesday in which council plans to select between six or eight applicants for interview, based on resume reviews.

Interviews will be held with council members between May 14 and 17. McCartney said two or three applicants would be chosen from those interviews and background checks would be done for those people. A selection could be made from there, he said, or those applicants could be brought back for a third interview.

A permanent borough manager should be in place by July or August, McCartney said.

“We’re trying to do a reasonable, thorough process and be as objective as possible,” he said.

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