City Council to initiate hiring process next week
After a three-month search conducted by headhunter firm Mosaic, a single public forum with the two finalists produced by that search, and half a day of interviews with City Council members, on March 26 Mayor Kirk Watson announced that outgoing Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax is Council’s preferred candidate. They plan to offer him the job formally at next week’s Council meeting, April 4.
Broadnax likely edged out the other finalist, Sara Hensley, for two primary reasons. One, Broadnax has big-city experience – Dallas has an estimated population of about 1.3 million people, per the latest American Community Survey figures . Council members were looking for a candidate who had experience navigating the kind of challenges Austin has faced in the past few years and will face in the next few. Meanwhile, Denton has a much smaller population of about 160,000 people.
At the March 25 public forum hosted by the city, Broadnax emphasized his commitment to equity and inclusion at Dallas City Hall and trumpeted the city’s recent success with a rapid rehousing program. He said the program, which is designed to move people living on the streets into apartments for around a year, launched in October 2021 with the goal of housing 2,500 people.
Broadnax was also asked how he would approach managing the police chief – who is subordinate to the city manager – if conflicts arise between policy direction initiated by City Council and execution of that vision by the chief.
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