City Administrator's Corner
A comprehensive overview of the Office of the City Administrator of the City of Horton, Kansas, including biography of the City Administrator, Jim Whisenant; City Administrator's Commission Meeting Communications, generally published the Friday before each Monday; and duties of the City Administrator.
The
the Office of Municipal Administration, which is led by the City
Administrator, is responsible for the general administration of the
City of Horton, including maintaining accounts payables and
receivables, payroll, and other financial accounting, regulatory
permitting, capital improvement planning, economic development and
municipal goods and services procurement. The position of
the City Administrator was first created in 19__ by Ordinance No.
____. The primary duties of the City Administrator include
serving as (i) chief liaison to the Board of the Horton City
Commission; (ii) chief economic development officer; (iii) chief
procurement and contracting officer (iv) chief human resources officer;
and (v) chief financial officer, which includes financial and
operational executive oversight of one dozen municipal funds, including
a fully generational municipal electric utility, water utility, and
wastewater utility.
This page has been made available for review by the public and to ease access to important documents and information necessary for the informed public decision necessary in a participatory democracy, such as municipal government. For easy access, the items made available in the navigation folders herein are:
- City Administrator's Commission Meeting Communications
- Recent Financial
Data
- Applicable & Relevant City Codes and Ordinances (available after 2008 recodification of Horton City Code)
- Zoning & Subdivision Regulations
- Proposed Ordinances
The current City Administrator, Jim Whisenant, began serving Horton on September 15, 2008.