COUNTY DRAFT MANAGER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS Preliminary remarks: Brief welcome and introduction of Board members. Chairman may want to provide a brief summary of the Countys goals or objectives. 1. Please describe your past experience working as a County Manager and your educational background. 2. Why are you interested in the job of County Manager for Rowan County? 3. What is your perception of Rowan County and its place in the region? 4. What information have you inquired or received about Rowan County to prepare for this interview and how did you go about getting the information? 5. What do you perceive to be the Managers role in working with the Board? Managers role in working with other elected officials, i.e., Sheriff and Register of Deeds? 6. What do you perceive to be the major issues facing local government today? What are your recommendations for dealing with those issues? 7. What is your most significant professional accomplishment? 8. How do you set goals and measure your organizations progress against them? How have you made your organization better? 9. Describe the most controversial issue you have been involved in. What was the outcome and what was your role? 10. Please provide examples of what you have done to contribute to economic or industrial development within the communities in which you have served and what would you suggest for Rowan County to increase industrial development? 11. Incentives are a significant topic of discussion across the economic development industry now? How have you used them efficiently? What are your reservations? 12. What type of experience do you have with high tech companies? The motor-sports industry? Manufacturing? Biotech? 13. List some innovative ways in which revenues can be increased without an increase in taxes? What role have you played in finding no-tax revenue sources? 14. What has been your experience with the local media and what steps would you take to develop a level of trust between county government and the media? 15. What is the best way for a Manager to deal with an angry constituent? 16. Please describe your experience in land use planning and zoning requirements? 17. How do you propose to deal with individual commissioners, i.e., a commissioner seeks special treatment such as hiring someone not considered best the applicant for a specific job, or a commissioner requests a particular task to be done which you feel should be considered by the entire board? 18. Annual budget preparation is a vital part of County Administration. What process would you use to determine the appropriate funding of each department and what considerations would you use in evaluating future requests for additional funds. 19. What do you consider is long range planning? In what areas do you value long range planning and why? 20. In the field of inter-governmental relations, what experience have you had in dealing with State and Federal agencies, State Legislature, and Congress?
21. Can you describe an instance of having to deal with special interest groups and how you handled it? 22. In your opinion, what role should the Manager have in the community? 23. Have you ever led a task force or committee without County employees, from whom you have to get information and citizen input? What were your accomplishments and disappointments and what would you handle differently the next time? 24. How would you describe the importance of open meetings law, general statutes, and policies and procedures in the performance of your job duties and the duties of your staff? 25. Describe specific steps you would take to have Department Directors work together as a team. 26. What factors do you use to ...