Highest quality best price..

Ottawa County’s purchasing policy is designed to get the highest quality best price vendor to help us carry out County services for residents. In 2021, as a result of a competitive RFP process, we hired GovHR, a recruiting firm with deep experience in the government sector, to help us carry out our search for a new administrator. The cost to taxpayers was $22,500.

This time, the Executive Transition Committee is proposing hiring a search firm that, while it has a strong private sector placement record, unfortunately has no available record in the government sector. The proposed contract shows a cost approximately three times the amount we paid in 2021, as shown below.

I do not believe that paying a search firm 30% of first year base salary, which in 2022 for John Shay was $210,000, makes sense for Ottawa County taxpayers and will be opposed to this contract if it comes before us.