Anable named interim administrator for Encinal

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Encinal city councilors have voted unanimously to hire Jared Anable to serve as a consultant just a month after firing Velma Davila.
Councilors agreed on June 10 to fire Davila and name Anable as the interim city administrator or consultant.
“It would be very difficult for me to serve as a city administrator, given that I cannot be here during regular business hours because I have a full-time job,” Anable told councilors during a Wednesday, July 9, meeting. “I think that the responsibilities that come with that [city administrator] position do require someone to be on site to do that job. For those reasons I feel it is better that I serve as a senior consultant.”
Anable is currently the city administrator for the city of Martindale, a small community near San Marcos. The army veteran is also a supervisory management and program analyst for the US Department of Homeland Security.
Anable is currently enrolled in the St. Mary’s University School of Law.
“Through management consulting services I will primarily be working with the mayor on strategies for a vision looking forward,” the consultant said. “I will be helping out on how to administer city services and providing fiscal guidance. I will primarily be available nights and weekends or, with enough heads-up, I can take leave from my other job.”
Anable immediately began examining the city’s financial records after he was given the administrative job in June and provided councilors with a preliminary fiscal sustainability assessment and benchmark report.
“I was concerned how much work would need to be done up front,” the consultant said. “Based on some of the findings it is going to be a big hole to dig out of.”
Before approving a six-month fixed-price engagement of $36,000 with Anable, councilors asked how much time the consultant would devote to the city.
“It is a fixed price because I did not want to get into a situation where there were forty to fifty hours then twenty hours, then it adds up and you get a $12,000 bill,” Anable told councilors. “Doing a fixed rate is going to be a benefit for the city. Just in the four to five days I have put in forty to fifty hours.”