Rogers withdraws from consideration as City Manager

The city of Charlottesville will soon have a new City Manager after a year and a half of service from an employee of a government services firm. 

Interim City Manager Michael C. Rogers has announced to city staff that he will withdraw from consideration to be hired as the permanent top official. 

“While I would have loved to continue working with Council and beside all of you to serve the residents of this great city, personal priorities require that I return home to the District of Columbia full time,” Rogers said in the statement. 

Rogers is an employee of the Robert Bobb Group, a D.C. based firm that provides services to localities across the country. The statement points out that Robert Bobb, the company’s main principal, has assisted Rogers in his time as interim city manager. 

Council has met several times to interview candidates for the position.  At a campaign forum on May 10, Charlottesville Mayor Lloyd Snook said he had hoped the permanent hire would be in place by July 1. Today he’s told me that Council hopes to make an announcement some time next week. 

Read more of that story from May to get the sense of Snook and Councilor Michael Payne about what kind no person they’d like to see in the role. 

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