{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"CEO departing in March","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":388,"description":"January 13, 2022—County CEO Carmel Angelo told the Board of Supervisors last week that she is moving up the date of her retirement, from October of this year to March. Supervisors Maureen Mulheren and Dan Gjerde spoke with kzyx earlier this week about their work comparing the CEO versus the CAO model, and some of their thoughts on finding Angelo’s successor. They’re on an ad hoc committee charged with providing the rest of the board with the information they need to craft an ordinance laying out which model the county plans to use in the future. At this point, the ordinance will be most useful as a job description for candidates. Mulheren and Gjerde plan to present their findings at the next meeting on January 25th.\r\nGjerde, the only supervisor on the board right now who is not in his first term, called Mendocino County’s current ordinance “a bit of a hybrid.”\r\n“The principle difference between a CEO and a CAO is under a CA ordinance, supervisors have a little more management, or oversight anyway, of the departments, because they perform annual performance reviews for most of the department heads,” he explained. While Mendocino County’s ordinance specifies that supervisors do conduct these reviews in closed session, Gjerde added that during his nine-year tenure, those reviews had been a little inconsistent. He and Mulheren are planning to recommend a special two-day annual meeting for those reviews, probably at the beginning of the year.\r\nIf the board does not find a successor for Angelo right away, he thinks there are strong interim options, including Assistant CEO Darcie Antle, head of the finance team that has been successful at bringing in grant money after the fires. “But the full board needs to discuss all of our options before making a decision,” he noted. \r\nMulheren and Gjerde both served on City Councils before becoming supervisors. They reflected on the options of hiring Angelo’s replacement from within the organization or conducting an open...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZpAumwbhFUpJUYcwaQ1-q6snzOyqAm13l7cW6AWPCM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzkz/NjAwNjc2OWMyZmFk/YWY2YTdmYjI5M2Mz/YWMxNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}