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A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council-manager form of city government. Called the chief administrative officer in some municipalities. When the term Chief Administrative Officer is used to describe the City Manager the job can often be confused with Chief Executive Officer (an executive possition) due to the C"A"O and C"E"O acronyms sounding similar.

Typical roles and responsibilities of a city manager include:

• Supervising day-to-day operations of all city departments;
• Supervising the department heads
• Preparing a draft city budget each year with options the council votes on;
• Researching and making recommendations about topics of interest to the council;
• Meeting with citizens and citizen groups to understand their needs better;
• Providing executive leadership that encourages good performance by city workers;
• Operating the city with a professional understanding of how all city functions operate together to their best effect.

Typically, city managers have hire-fire authority over all city employees, though these decisions may be required to be approved by the council, and must comply with locally applicable civil service laws. This authority includes talent searches for "department heads" who are the managers of the city departments.

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• Local government in the United States