“Everyone loves a surprise” is an old cliche, but surprises have their time and place.
One place they don’t belong is in important government decisions like the hiring of a city administrator.
The advertised agenda for the April 7 Adrian City Commission meeting said that commissioners would be discussing the next steps in their search for a new administrator. They had just interviewed two search firms, and it seemed like the next decision they made would be about which one should guide the process…