By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com
Yachats City Manager Shannon Beaucaire is one of four finalists to become the city manager in Carlton, a small city in the wine region of Yamhill County.
Beaucaire has been Yachats’ city manager since October 2017.
The Yachats City Council is getting a new mayor and two newly elected members this week, all of whom have been critical of some city decisions on spending, operations and management.
Yachats was Beaucaire’s first city manager job, coming from New Mexico where she operated a mediation and consulting business, was statewide manager for the New Mexico Supreme Court and a manager in the city of Albuquerque’s legal department.
Carlton is a town of 2,300 just north of McMinnville in Yamhill County. It has 14 employees, including a four-member police department, and a yearly budget of $20 million – double that of Yachats’.
The city announced the four finalists in late December. It has scheduled an online meeting for citizens to meet the finalists on Tuesday, Jan. 12 and plans interviews Jan. 13-14. The city’s announcement said the Carlton council expects to make a decision Jan. 15.
Carlton is seeking a new top administrative officer to replace a city manager who resigned in July after two years in the job. The city’s finance director is serving as interim manager.
Beaucaire informed Yachats city staff and council members of her job candidacy on Tuesday.
In its recruitment for the position, consultant Jensen Strategies of Portland said the salary range for the job is $96,000 to $122,000 a year. Beacaire’s Yachats salary is $98,000 a year.
Other finalists are:
- Steve Dahl, who has been the city manager of Drain, Ore. since 2017;
- Scott McClure, who was terminated as Canby’s city manager last February after four months on the job. He has also been a city manager in Monmouth and Coos Bay; and,
- Eileen Stein, who was terminated as West Linn’s city manager last January after disagreements with the City Council there and fallout from a long-running investigations into the city’s police department. She had previously been a city manager in Mt. Angel and Sisters.