How to Use city manager in a Sentence

city manager

noun
  • Hamtramck has had four city managers in less than a year.
    — Gino Vicci, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • The start date of the new city manager is yet to be announced.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Morley’s short tenure as city manager is not the norm in the city.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • There was no clear agenda for the session, called by the city manager.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The city manager and a lawyer for the city did not reply to months of calls for comment.
    — Challen Stephens | [email protected], al, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Pizzi told reporters that the mayor, city clerk and city manager then left.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The city’s day-to-day functions are overseen by a full-time city manager.
    — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Babinec, the city manager, warned that adding more courts would mean taking something else away.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The city chose not to conduct a national search for a new city manager.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Applications were due last week, and the city manager hopes to name a new chief soon.
    — Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Two previous city managers stayed in the position for a decade or more.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The city has a strong-mayor form of government with no city manager.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Our roads are all some of the best quality in the county and our city manager one of the very best.
    — Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Springfield's city manager has also called for an end to the spread of rumors.
    — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Hal was right about how the city functioned when staff was under a city manager, not the mayor.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Thomas is Milpitas’s fourth city manager to leave in the last six years.
    — Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The Higgins memo did not say how much Reyes would be paid as city manager.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Williams is the third city manager in Fort Lauderdale in less than four years.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
  • And the sum, while hefty, is in line with what several other city managers in the region earn.
    — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Williams took the reins as city manager in April 2025.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • The city manager is supposed to draw up the budget, then pass it on to the mayor for review.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2020
  • The first task for the council is to begin its city manager search, Cogan said.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2024
  • The Cypress city manager may soon be out at City Hall.
    — Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Voters passed two of the amendments, including a salary cap for the city manager.
    — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Perales will be the second city manager to leave Leon Valley in less than two years.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Things turned around when the San Diego city manager who kept turning them down retired.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026
  • Last March, Platt was fired from his position as city manager.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Gandurski was the deputy city manager for the city of Evanston.
    — Emily Little, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2021
  • On Sunday, Wright will end her hunger strike her way, with digs at the mayor and city manager.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • The city, about 30 miles north of Boston, is run by a city manager picked by the council.
    — NBC News, 4 Jan. 2022

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