{"id":792,"date":"2024-09-05T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2024-09-05T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:41:27","slug":"city-council-votes-to-retain-recruiting-firm-to-find-new-city-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/city-council-votes-to-retain-recruiting-firm-to-find-new-city-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council Votes to Retain Recruiting Firm to Find New City Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-64fbcc1e5c66fee68acd70913cff1072\">By Lance Lowry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4fd05714298652e00837916f38221364\">09-05-2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Huntsville City Council votes to retail recruitment firm to replace City Manager Aron Kulhavy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfsEFPow1yc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Huntsville, Texas &#8211; This week the Huntsville City Council after a closed door session voted to retain a recruiting firm to assist in hiring a new city manager.&nbsp;&nbsp;The move came swiftly with no discussion from council members after reconvening from the closed door session on personnel matters involving the city manager Aron Kulhavy.&nbsp;&nbsp;The vote was unanimous.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Huntsville City Council during the same meeting approved ordinance 2024-20 to amend the land development code with a new city zoning map.&nbsp;&nbsp;Councilman Tore Fossum voted against the changes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The ordinance passed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council also passed ordinance 2024-18, a plan to create a city drainage fee for property owners.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fees collected for this fund can only be used on drainage projects.&nbsp;&nbsp;A rate schedule or fee structure hasn\u2019t been set, but a monthly $5 a month fee per residential household is being proposed.&nbsp;&nbsp;The fee proposal comes after a series of inclement weather events flooded areas of the city.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During public comments several residents voiced their concerns over poor planning, enforcement, and development.\u00a0\u00a0With city growth, water run off and retention will be a growing issue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lance Lowry 09-05-2024 Huntsville, Texas &#8211; This week the Huntsville City Council after a closed door session voted to retain a recruiting firm to assist in hiring a new city manager.&nbsp;&nbsp;The move came swiftly with no discussion from council members after reconvening from the closed door session on personnel matters involving the city manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}