three finalists<\/a> to become Erie\u2019s next town manager. The Town Council during a Sept. 29 meeting interviewed her; Corby Alexander, the current city manager in La Porte, Texas; and Kathleen Osher, the current deputy city manager in Littleton.\n<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m pleased to support Kelli\u2019s selection for this crucial role in Erie,\u201d Mayor Andrew Moore said in a Friday statement. \u201cCouncil and I were impressed by her skills and passion, and I look forward to seeing her lead Erie and become part of this community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson previously served as Greeley\u2019s director of communication and engagement, and later as the city\u2019s chief of staff. Before that, she was the public information manager for the High Plains Library District, when she helped open a branch in Erie in 2008.<\/p>\n
Johnson holds a master of science in organizational leadership from Regis University and a bachelor of arts in journalism\/public relations from the University of Northern Colorado. She is also a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executives in State and Local Government program and the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service LEAD program.\n<\/p>\n
In Erie, the town manager serves as the chief administrative officer, responsible for executive oversight for town operations, departments and personnel. The manager is to be appointed by a majority vote of the Town Council members.<\/p>\n
Under Erie\u2019s charter, the Town Council directly supervises only four positions: the town manager, town attorney, prosecutor and municipal court judge.<\/p>\n
The search for a new town manager began after the council, in a divided February vote, decided to fire<\/a> Malcolm Fleming, who had held the position since 2019. Council members later in February selected Meredyth Muth, director of administrative services and operations, to serve as the interim town manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie officials on Friday announced that the Town Council has negotiated an employment contract with Kelli Johnson to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1675,1676,6838,136,138,137,1677,241,139,50,1680],"class_list":["post-308185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-boulder-county","tag-colorado","tag-east-county","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-weld-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Kelli Johnson (Town of Erie \/ Courtesy photo)<\/p>\n