Mihranian, Ara - FY2020-038 INTERIM CITY MANAGER EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
(Ara Michael Mihranian,AICP, City of Rancho Palos Verdes)
This INTERIM CITY MANAGER EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the "Agreement")
is made and effective as of November 22, 2019 ("Effective Date"), by and between the CITY OF
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, a general law city & municipal corporation and Mr ARA
MICHAEL MIHRANIAN, AICP, an individual (" Interim Manager"—the term Interim Manager
shall mean and include the titles of Community Development Director, Interim Executive
Director of the Successor Agency to the Rancho Palos Verdes Redevelopment Agency, &
Interim Director of the Rancho Palos Verdes Improvement Authority)
RECITALS
A City's current City Manager (the "out-going City Manager") has retired from his
employment with City effective November 22, 2019 to return to private sector employment
City has entered into a process to find a replacement for its out-going City Manager and to that
end has engaged the services of an executive search firm to assist City's City Council in such
executive search
B In the interim, City desires to engage the services of Interim Manager to act as its
Interim City Manager, in addition to his current duties as Community Development Director
C Interim Manager is willing and otherwise qualified to perform the duties of the
offices set forth above, provided that in the event City's City Council elects to enter into an
employment agreement with a new City Manager, and such new City Manager selected is not
Interim Manager, Interim Manager shall be allowed to revert to and retain his existing
employment with City as its Community Development Director
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of performance, by the parties hereto, of the
promises, covenants, and conditions herein contained, the parties hereto agree to the terms of this
Agreement as follows
1 ARA MICHAEL MIHRANIAN is hereby appointed Interim Manager,
with all the powers, duties, and prerogatives of City's City Manager, as defined by City's
Municipal Code, the California Government Code, related to general law cities, the California
Health & Safety Code, and such other duties as customarily performed by past City practice, or
as Interim Manager shall be authorized to perform from time to time by City's City Council
2 ARA MICHAEL MIHRANIAN shall be entitled to additional
compensation from City, above a beyond that currently earned as Community Development
Director, such that Interim Manager's annual salary during the term of this Agreement shall be
equal to ten percent (10%) above and beyond his current annual salary of$175,232 00, the same
to be paid in the same increments and at the same time as all other department heads in City
3 The term of this Agreement shall commence from and after the Effective
Date and shall terminate from and after the date upon which City's City Council employs a new
City Manager, and the same executes an employment agreement with City approved by City's
City Council, completes all necessary background checks or other prerequisites to City
employment, and commences upon the duties of such employment
0 L 4 During the term of this Agreement Interim Manager shall continue to
�• ae 'iee as Community Development Director Interim Manager may appoint an acting or
interim Community Development Director as and if needed in Interim Manager's sound
discretion In the event Interim Manager is not hired as the new City Manager, Interim Manager
shall be allowed to revert to and retain his existing employment with City as its Community
Development Director
5 Interim Manager shall be subject to the terms and conditions of that
certain "Employment Agreement Between the City of Rancho Palos Verdes and Douglas
Willmore," made and entered into as of March 1, 2015, and each amendment thereto, that was
entered into by and between City and the out-going City Manager, excepting therefrom the
provision(s) of the same regarding the payment by City of deferred compensation and
automobile allowance which shall not be provided to Interim Manager, and further excepting
therefrom the provisions regarding the accrual of leaves, including sick leave, vacation leave,
administrative leave, which shall accrue, if at all, in the manner and at the rates that the same
accrue for the position of Community Development Director
Executed at Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on November 19, 2019, to be effective as
of the Effective Date first written above
ATTESTED "City"
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES, THE
SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO THE RANCHO
%1b PALOS VERDES REDEVELOPMENT
-�' AGENCY & RANCHO PALOS VERDES
By `a IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY
Erni Colbo T ity Clerk,
Agency &Authority Secretary, MMC r
By
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• Lid . ty C'air
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APPROVED AS TO FORM
ALESHIRE & WYNDER, LLP "Interim Manager"
By By
CI Attorney, Askncy & Authority Ara Michael .nian, AICP
General Counsel
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