mr. alden's comments. i can say from my many years of experience in the oversight field that the recognized best practice is to do a nation wide search. it appears that dhr is not prepared to do that type of search in a timely manner. this is a new position for a new department so they not have dealt with before and i think we can achieve our goal of hiring a competent and fair inspector general by going with a outside search firm that knows the territory, that knows how to contact candidates, solicit candidates and get the best possible candidates and at the previous meeting they said they expect they can complete the entire process in 16 weeks and dhr said it will take longer and sounds dhr is quite overwhelmed filling many other vacant city positions so this is the path city berkeley went down when they filled head of their new department of accountability. it is the process sonoma county went through. bay area rapid transit used a outside search firm when they brought in their independent police audito