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City manager search
The Pleasanton City Council is progressing toward naming the next permanent city manager, holding closed-door interviews with candidates in recent days although no final decision has been reached to date.
Council members first held a special meeting in the boardroom at the Rose Hotel on March 17 to conduct candidate interviews, according to Barbara Harb, the city’s new communications manager. They then met on Sunday (March 20) to continue the same discussion along with the city’s human resources director and search consultant firm Avery Associates.
No decision was reported at the end of Sunday’s meeting. The council has another special closed-session meeting on the city manager recruitment scheduled for this Thursday (March 24) at 4:30 p.m. at the Four Points Sheraton in Pleasanton.
As for the hiring timeline, Harb told the Weekly, “The City Council is continuing to evaluate prospective candidates. As there are no reportable actions at this time, it is too early to speculate when a contract may be ready to come before City Council.”
The council is working to identify the successor to Nelson Fialho, who resigned as city manager at the end of November. Brian Dolan has been serving as interim city manager since.
Fair wins awards
The Alameda County Fair has earned a range of awards from the Western Fairs Association for its competitive exhibits, agricultural programs and marketing for 2021.
In all, the fair won 23 WFA awards in its division, including categories such as Nonprofit and Cultural Programming, Digital Advertising, Sponsorship Innovation, Community Outreach, Year-Round Events, Photography and Fair Marketing Campaigns.
The Pleasanton-based fair received recognition in Agricultural History for its American Farm Tractor Museum and in the Fundraising category for the efforts of the Alameda County Fair Foundation.
New trustee
Trustees at the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District recently appointed Union City resident Harris Mojadedi as their new colleague to represent Trustee Area 3 (including South Hayward and Union City).
Mojadedi, who will hold the position until the district’s next regular election this November, replaces former trustee Genevieve Randolph, who resigned from the board after moving out of the area that she represented.
A lifelong resident of Area 3, Mojadedi works as a policy analyst at UC Berkeley and has community service experience on the Union City Planning Commission, Alameda County Human Relations Commission and New Haven Schools Foundation Board of Directors.
The board selected Mojadedi after reviewing applications and holding public interviews with three candidates. He was sworn in at the Feb. 15 board meeting.
