(Mods, not sure if this is the right place for this sort of thing or not, please feel free to move.)
I am the plumbing Inspector in a medium small town in Northern Indiana. By City Ordinance the job is a Mayoral appointment. The incumbent didn’t run so we will be getting a new Mayor. The three “skilled trade” Inspectors; Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing are the only non department head folk who have that distinction. (That is, we are all lower level employees, unlike our boss the Building Commissioner, we don’t report to the Mayor. It’s a hold over from the olden days where it was a job the Mayor could hand out for political patronage. Well I guess he still can for that matter, but you do have to be an Indiana Licensed Plumber.)
So any who, we are getting a new mayor and the traditional thing to do is to tender our resignation and then apply for the position.
Well This is the first time since I started in '98 that I had to do this and I would like some suggestions. (I got appointed to replace someone who was retiring hence my initial appointment doesn’t fall on an Election Year, and for that matter why do Mayoral elections fall on odd numbered years anyway?)
So any suggestions or questions?
Peace
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