PORT ANGELES — Kent Myers, city manager for about 2 1/2 years, is reportedly one of four finalists for the top city administrative post in Columbia, Mo.
Columbia Mayor Bob McDavid held a news conference to announce that Myers will be one of four who visit the central Missouri city starting late this week, news media there reported.
Myers was not immediately available for comment.
The other finalists — none of whom has the city managerial experience of Myers, who held the top post in three other cities before coming to Port Angeles in December 2008 — are Lori Curtis Luther, city administrator of Waukesha, Wis., Mike Matthes, assistant city manager and chief information officer of Des Moines, Iowa, and David Vela, assistant city manager of Abilene, Texas.
Myers, a native of Texas, was among 53 applicants in January for the city manager post in Corpus Christi, Texas.
But in a speech before the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce on Jan. 31, he announced that he was out of the running for that job.
“There are no other applications out there,” he said at that time.
Myers makes $157,590 a year as Port Angeles city manager.
The Columbia city manager, who retired, was making $150,000 annually — a figure Mayor McDavid had told The Daily Columbian newspaper that would probably be increased to attract good candidates.
Columbia, home to the University of Missouri, has a 2010 census population of 108,500. Port Angeles’ population is 19,380.
