Replacing Flores
Just to clear on some confusion I checked out how the process to replace Victor Flores, the County Tax Assesor/Collector is going to go. Flores is retiring due to illness.
Flores will still be the Tax Assessor Collector until a replacement is appointed by the Court because of the Texas Hold-Over Clause.
First lets kill all the ridiculous rumors that start every time the judge has a position to appoint. For as power-hungry as people make her out to be, the rumors of who she is going to select for a position are never true. So no, don't expect Susie Byrd or the former city manager, or Steve Ortega to be appointed to replace Flores.
Its the entire court that appoints this position by the way, not just the judge. That being said, when it is the judge's pick, she always picks someone that isn't going to run for the position and always picks someone you've never heard of before.
I'm pretty sure the rest of the court will not want to pick someone who's interested in running for the position. So all of the ass-kissing that was about to commence will have to wait.
The Court directed the Chief Administrator to get with HR to come up with a list of qualifications, knowledge, skills, and abilities. Once they get that, then applicants that fit the requirements, both internally and externally, will be able to apply. It appears the court did this, which is above and beyond what is required to hold the elected office, because the person selected would serve almost 20 months of the term. That is a lot of time to screw up, so they want to make sure that the person appointed won't screw something up.
Guess what that means?
Don't expect the names you've heard of to get the job. Don't expect a lot of hard-ball political lobbying for the job. It'll likely be some person you'll have to Google when they are announced.
Now whether or not that person runs is likely going to be asked during the interview process. The person could genuinely have no desire to run at the point of the interview but might like the job so much and later change their mind and run.
The bottom line is with 20 months left to serve the office, its really difficult to have a good sense if someone is or is not going to run. That is a long time for someone to change their mind.
Steve Ortega flat out told me he'd never run for mayor and he changed his mind. Tonya Chozet flat out told me she wasn't running for city council. She changed her mind.
It happens.
Either way, don't expect the people with big names to be in the running for Flores' job.
Flores will still be the Tax Assessor Collector until a replacement is appointed by the Court because of the Texas Hold-Over Clause.
First lets kill all the ridiculous rumors that start every time the judge has a position to appoint. For as power-hungry as people make her out to be, the rumors of who she is going to select for a position are never true. So no, don't expect Susie Byrd or the former city manager, or Steve Ortega to be appointed to replace Flores.
Its the entire court that appoints this position by the way, not just the judge. That being said, when it is the judge's pick, she always picks someone that isn't going to run for the position and always picks someone you've never heard of before.
I'm pretty sure the rest of the court will not want to pick someone who's interested in running for the position. So all of the ass-kissing that was about to commence will have to wait.
The Court directed the Chief Administrator to get with HR to come up with a list of qualifications, knowledge, skills, and abilities. Once they get that, then applicants that fit the requirements, both internally and externally, will be able to apply. It appears the court did this, which is above and beyond what is required to hold the elected office, because the person selected would serve almost 20 months of the term. That is a lot of time to screw up, so they want to make sure that the person appointed won't screw something up.
Guess what that means?
Don't expect the names you've heard of to get the job. Don't expect a lot of hard-ball political lobbying for the job. It'll likely be some person you'll have to Google when they are announced.
Now whether or not that person runs is likely going to be asked during the interview process. The person could genuinely have no desire to run at the point of the interview but might like the job so much and later change their mind and run.
The bottom line is with 20 months left to serve the office, its really difficult to have a good sense if someone is or is not going to run. That is a long time for someone to change their mind.
Steve Ortega flat out told me he'd never run for mayor and he changed his mind. Tonya Chozet flat out told me she wasn't running for city council. She changed her mind.
It happens.
Either way, don't expect the people with big names to be in the running for Flores' job.
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