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Mountain View’s new city manager is a familiar face: Kimbra McCarthy, who served as the deputy city manager until 2016, has been picked for City Hall’s top job.
McCarthy, who currently serves as assistant city manager of Redwood City, will begin her new position in March. She will receive a salary of $307,000, roughly equivalent to what former City Manager Dan Rich earned before he retired last month.
The Mountain View City Council is expected to approve McCarthy for the new position at its scheduled public meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 14.
Selecting the new city manager is among the most important decisions for local elected leaders, and they have screened nearly 70 candidates for the job. In recent weeks, council members met in a series of closed-door meetings to interview their top applicants.
McCarthy will enter the new position with a long resume of experience in government affairs. She started her career in 2007, working as a fiscal analyst for the Kansas Legislature, where she stayed for just over a year. She relocated to California, taking a job for the county of Santa Barbara as a fiscal and policy analyst, and was later promoted to director of administration of the district attorney’s office.
McCarthy came to Mountain View in 2014 to take a job as the deputy city manager. During her two years at the city, she worked on developing the city’s $15-an-hour minimum wage ordinance, and later penned a step-by-step guide for other cities interested in adopting similar policies. She also managed the City Council goal-setting process, led an interdepartmental review of the city’s purchasing protocol and helped negotiate contracts with the city’s labor unions. Two years later, Redwood City recruited McCarthy to serve as assistant city manager.
Prior to entering government work, McCarthy spent much of her education focusing on a legal career. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washburn University, and a master’s of law from the University of Limerick in Ireland. She later returned to Washburn to get a juris doctorate in law.
“I am honored to be selected by the City Council to be the city manager of Mountain View,” McCarthy said in a statement provided by the city. “I look forward to working in partnership with the council in achieving their goals and vision for the city. I’m also looking forward to leading the team of exceptional city employees.”
No, Rossta, what’s bankrupting our society is rich people like you not paying your fair share of taxes. What’s your effective property tax rate on the market value of your home?
While in office, the U.S. president receives a salary of $400,000 a year and a $50,000 expense account.
Rossta= pure ignorance. Sad that you use this forum to spew your ignorant garbage.
You said,
“No, Rossta, what’s bankrupting our society is rich people like you not paying your fair share of taxes. What’s your effective property tax rate on the market value of your home?”
I hear this all the time from activist’s who want open borders and more public benefits for those people. Illegals cost California $23 Billion Dollars a year. What you ask is there fair share in taxes that they pay? ZERO Dollars.
If you insist on getting rid of Prop 13, then get rid of illegals in our state first, then lets talk about other costs and spending problems.
LOL at your comment.
@@Bankrupting, people like you are your own worst enemy, which is why you keep losing. The mildest criticism and you dive headfirst into racism, turning off anyone who would consider agreeing with you. Thank you for your service.
You said,
“The mildest criticism and you dive headfirst into racism, turning off anyone who would consider agreeing with you.”
Talk about you showing off your ignorance, I have brown skin!
Do you believe that people with “brown skin” cannot be racist? Please get back to screaming about “illegals” and posting made up numbers about how much they cost California.
Ser mexicano significa que no puedo ser racista cuando estoy de acuerdo con las leyes de los Estados Unidos cuando funcionan igualmente para todas las personas de piel morena.
Tú, que eres racista y fanático, deberías saber esto.
I see you’ve given up substantiating your made up numbers about the cost of “illegals” in California. It’ll be exciting to see your endorsement of poll taxes, literacy tests, and more for voting as “not racist” since you have “brown skin” and it affects everyone equally.
You should speak at public comment at a city council meeting! I’m certain everyone will realize how not-racist you are and how well-founded your ideas are once you begin screaming wildly about illegals.
Wow! Her starting pay is the same as our previous City Manager? Let’s make sure our council doesn’t then give merit increases since this is already for a top notch performance – since the previous city manager was also brought in at the same level as Kevin Duggan who had done an amazing job for a long time.
Then, I have to wonder, how long does one have to stay in this position before we, the tax payers, are on the hook for a lifetime of salary and benefits? These pensions are bankrupting our society.
Above poster:
Why are you even questioning something that is a fact, facts are not offensive.
You can call others names, even the R word, this just means you are close minded and have an agenda.
“Illegal Immigration Costs California $30.3 Billion A Year—17.7 Percent Of State Budget”
https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/02/21/costs-illegal-immigration-california/
Why Prop. 13 bothers you, and not this, is beyond comprehension.
Live and let live, or expect a push back. The people voted for Prop 13 for a reason.
Gladys, did you really cite some random blogpost that uses the public school education of 1 million American citizens as a “cost of illegal immigration?” My goodness, the motivated reasoning of someone hell-bent on demonizing “illegals” is a wondrous thing.
Poster above,
You need to have some credibility first, which you have none of, before you can pass judgement on something you simply refuse/deny/ to admit too. People on this site know that.
You have been posting here for several years, hateful/dishonest/attacking/ comments that you repeatedly make. You have been banned, posts deleted and you think that whatever you say that people will believe you? Get a life man.
You keep “demonizing people, and it is not a wondrous thing.”
What in the world are you talking about? I’ve been posting on here for years? Now I definitely want to see you speak out at a council meeting!