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Special City Council Meeting May 24, 2004 Page 5 city's employment within the first two years, they will redo the search for expenses only. Chris Hartung with the Waters Consulting Group, Inc., was present and he introduced Ms. Pam Storaci with their office in Dallas. Ms. Storaci is a former Director of Human Resources, former Assistant City Manager, and has extensive experience both in the public and private sector. She is working with him on search assignments. He advised that his background is in local government and he spent almost twenty years in city management. He was the Assistant City Manager in Garland, Texas and was City Manager of Denton, Texas for eight years prior to moving into the consulting field. Mr. Hartung advised that he has been with the Waters Consulting Group for seven and one- half years. Mr. Hartung said they were involved in a wide range of human resource management areas primarily with local government, but they also have clients in the private sector in a number of areas. He said they have clients all over the United States, but their home office is in Texas and their primary practice is in Texas. They have extensive experience as a firm and as individuals with local government in Texas. Mr. Hartung believed that their strength draws from this experience and they do have experience in local government. They know cities in Texas, and cities in Texas know them. He said that they are just a couple of hours away from Paris and this makes it easy to make meetings and communicate with Council. Mr. Hartung pointed out the City of Kerrville and the City of Mt. Pleasant. He said they had chosen the Waters Consulting Group to conduct the search for their last two City Managers. He advised that he did the search for Kerrville in 1987 and that manager stayed there unti12000 and when he left, the city asked the Waters Group to assist in the search for their next City Manager and they successfully completed that. Mr. Hartung said in 1999 they did the search for the City of Mt. Pleasant and recently the City Manager announced that he was leaving to go to the City of Lufkin, and they have been asked again to assist the City of Mt. Pleasant.