(A) Qualifications for the position of Director shall include the requirement of a master’s or law degree and relevant experience.
(B) The Director will be a full-time at will city employee to be selected, removed, or reviewed as follows:
(1) The Contract Compliance Officer, through CPOA staff, shall accept applications from candidates. The CCO shall review the applications and interview candidates. As part of this review, the CCO shall assemble a review and interview panel to, at a minimum, include a representative of the Agency staff, a member of the Board, and a member of a CPC. The CCO shall submit to the City Council the names of the three candidates that they find to be the best qualified to be the Director and indicating their ranking, and the City Council shall appoint the Director from the three. Upon a vacancy in the position of Director, the CCO shall submit their list of recommended replacement candidates to the City Council within six months. The CCO's recommendations to Council shall be based on the candidates' integrity, capability for strong management and abilities in investigations, law, management analysis, public administration, criminal justice administration or other closely related fields. The CCO's transmittal of their recommendations to the Council shall, at a minimum, include an evaluation of all the candidates against the provisions and requirements of this § 9-4-1-7 and identify in writing the basis for selection of their top three candidates as compared to other candidates. The City Council may decline to confirm the CCO's recommended candidates only for reasonable cause, including but not limited to lack of a reasonable evaluation process, or lack of a substantive basis for the CCO's recommendations.
(2) The Director's compensation shall be established by the Contract Compliance Officer in consultation with the City Human Resources Department and taking Into account the CPOA budget, and shall be commensurate and competitive with salaries for comparable positions within the city and other equivalent agencies in peer municipalities.
(3) Once confirmed, the Director may be removed only for cause as determined by a 2/3 majority vote of the City Council.
(4) If for any reason there is a period of time during which there is no Director, the City Council may appoint a temporary Director by a majority vote. A temporary Director shall serve in that capacity only for a period not to exceed six months, during which time the CCO shall work diligently to select a permanent Director.
(5) The Director shall create and fill a Deputy Director position within the Agency to, among other appropriate duties, serve in the Director's stead during any vacancies in the position of Director, or other absences, such as during personal or sick leave.