After a tumultuous year with the city’s finance department, city leadership is confident that Susan Thompson will "hit the ground running" and lead the finance team forward.
Susan Thompson, the current assistant finance director, was appointed to lead the city through the 2024 budgeting process until the city hires a permanent finance director.
The 41-page report found Gayhart lacked core leadership competencies, failed to support the finance team and has a pattern of alienating and avoiding certain individual team members.