Three finalists in running for city manager

The Daily Inter Lake

The Kalispell City Council expects to interview up to three candidates for city manager on March 20.

The council possibly could select a winner that day.

The pool of several dozen candidates has been narrowed to three, Interim City Manager Myrt Webb told the council Monday.

The finalists' names will be released after reference checks are completed, Webb said.

The public will be invited to meet the finalists on the evening of March 19 at a yet-to-be-set location. Then the full council will interview the finalists on March 20.

The annual salary range for a new Kalispell city manager is $81,553 to $114,175.

The council fired former City Manager Jim Patrick last October for undisclosed reasons. Indications were that no single major reason was behind the termination, but rather stylistic differences and dissatisfaction with how some projects were carried out.

Webb, of Columbia Falls, became Kalispell's interim city manager that same month.

Webb's contract calls for a salary of $4,000 a month, with no health or retirement benefits, until a new manager is hired.