In the course of the Dec. 5 Zionsville City Council assembly, councilman Bryan Traylor introduced that the city’s chief monetary officer, Kellie Adams, resigned two weeks in the past after lower than eight months within the position.
Adams (Image courtesy of the City of Zionsville)
Adams’ final day within the workplace was Dec. 5. Present was unable to achieve Adams for remark by press time.
“At our final finance committee assembly, our CFO — former CFO at this level – had introduced up that there have been some extra appropriations that wanted to be executed by Dec. 15,” Traylor mentioned throughout the assembly.
In line with City Council President Jason Plunkett, Adams’ resignation was one other instance of an worker leaving city authorities that he mentioned calls into query larger points – reminiscent of what he mentioned is an absence of management within the mayor’s workplace – which may be contributing to Zionsville’s frequent worker turnover.
Plunkett
In line with Plunkett, the city has additionally had latest turnover within the CFO place with the resignation of Tammy Havard earlier this 12 months and the resignation of former planning director Wayne DeLong over the summer time.
“We’ve division heads who’re leaving jobs that they thought have been going to be careers,” Plunkett mentioned. “These are individuals who wished to work for the city and wished to have a profession with the City of Zionsville. If you’ve received administrators of departments who’re leaving, and the one direct report they might have is to the mayor, this tells me there’s a lack of management.”
Plunkett mentioned frequent worker turnover additionally has price the city a major and unprecedented amount of cash that might not have been deliberate for in yearly budgets. Present has reached out to the City of Zionsville for additional data concerning detailed prices related to worker turnover in latest months.
