1:03
William Falsey
6:31 - 7:35
"our proposal is that we are likely to reorganize the municipality in a slightly different way now, where we would return to a form that has been present in the past, where I would continue to have HR, IT, and purchasing, and then blend that into the municipal manager's role while offloading finance, which would report directly to the mayor, and then merging most of the Tudor Elmore functions into the community economic director function so that the workload remains balanced."
“our proposal is that we are likely to reorganize the municipality in a slightly different way now, where we would return to a form that has been present in the past, where I would continue to have HR, IT, and purchasing, and then blend that into the municipal manager's role while offloading finance, which would report directly to the mayor, and then merging most of the Tudor Elmore functions into the community economic director function so that the workload remains balanced.”
- Speaker
- William Falsey
- Timestamp
- 6:31 – 7:35
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 1, 2026
From the transcript
So the— that was one consideration, and then a second consideration was just that the municipal manager's column itself has been chopped up in various iterations over time because with the total number of direct reports available in the municipality of approximately 30 to 35, it's a little unwieldy. So at the time it seemed like a very natural division to say that there's an external focus and an internal focus. At this point our proposal is that we are likely to reorganize the municipality in a slightly different way now, where we would return to a form that has been present in the past, where I would continue to have HR, IT, and purchasing, and then blend that into the municipal manager's role while offloading finance, which would report directly to the mayor, and then merging most of the Tudor Elmore functions into the community economic director function so that the workload remains balanced. Um, and that is also partly indicative of the fact that a lot of the major lifting that we intended to do in the internal services functions has largely been accomplished. We have rewritten the purchasing code.
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