The City of Summerville continues to take applications for the city manager’s position with a deadline for resumes of January 27, 2023.

Late last year the city declined to renew the contract of former City Manager Janice Galloway.  Council members stated that they would be taking applications for the interim city manager’s position through December 8th, but did an about-face and hired a new interim city manager within just a few days, instead of waiting on resumes from potential applicants.  The council hired North Carolina-native Andrea Surratt, whose most recent job was city manager in Sandy Springs, Georgia.

Surratt came to Sandy Springs from a job as city manager in Bozeman, Montana where she worked for two years from 2017-2019.  She was then employed by Sandy Springs from 2019 until earlier this month, when she resigned for “personal reasons”.   Surratt was making an annual salary of $158,000 per year in Montana when she left for the job in Sandy Springs.  The Sandy Springs position paid $220,000 salary.  Prior to her time in Montana, Surratt worked for the city of Hickory, North Carolina.

Surratt was offered the Summerville interim city manager’s position at a salary of $9,800 monthly.

The hiring of a permanent city manager must follow specific guidelines which will mean the council will have to accept all applications and then narrow the field down and interview those candidates before making a decision on who will be the permanent city manager.