Amador County – Ione City Manager Kim Kerr has resigned effective in 90 days and will be the next Amador County political executive to go to work for El Dorado County.
Kerr said today she has accepted the position of Assistant Chief Administrative Officer of El Dorado County. Kerr said she will be working with former Amador County CAO Terry Daly, who now is CAO of El Dorado County.
Kerr’s letter of resignation was accepted during a special City Council meeting Friday. Kerr announced her resignation in a brief statement announcing the agenda packet for Tuesday’s meeting. Kerr wrote that “the City Council announced that they accepted my resignation on a 4-1 vote tonight. I have provided a 90-day notice to the City Council. My last day at work will be July 29.”
Kerr said today that Dan Epperson dissented. She said that she will probably start her new job the week following her last day in Ione.
Her resignation may not have been a shocker to the City Council but they were not expecting it, she said, because she had not given them any indication that she was looking for another job.
Kerr said it is a great opportunity for her to be working for El Dorado County. She said “we’ve accomplished a lot” and she is proud of her work in Ione. She has been City Manager for just under 4 years. July 16th will be 4 years since she started.
She said her accomplishments include the General Plan update, the Master Plan for the wastewater plant, and an update of the city park plan. She said the city under her lead has also rewritten a lot of zoning code, and updated a lot of municipal code.
She said she is not taking any staff with her, as she will be an assistant CAO, and the CAO, Daly, will have the authority to hire. Kerr said: “I’m just the worker bee.”
Kerr said she is hopeful that Ione will get parameters of its wastewater plant in place before she leaves, and that she can get the city moving on that work to keep on schedule for meeting deadlines for its wastewater cease & desist order. She said after she leaves, “if council would like my assistance, I would be available to help.”
At its meeting Tuesday, the Ione City Council will discuss the next step to hire a replacement for Kerr, and in closed session will “talk about what I need to do to get things moving.”
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