City Manager

The city manager, appointed by City Council and serving at its pleasure, is the city's principal administrative officer. It is the city manager's responsibility to see that all policies and ordinances of the city are enforced. He exercises supervision and control over all administrative departments and divisions. His other duties include:

• Advising City Council both on current and future needs of the city and on the day-to-day operation of the city government
• Developing and administering the city's annual budget
• Recommending adoption of measures he believes to be necessary or desirable
• Participating in all regular meetings of City Council to provide information (although he does not vote)

Annual Report (FY19) - View the City's annual report for more information about your local government and the accomplishments made in the fiscal year of 2019. For the FY18 report please contact Jani Hostetter at jhostetter@lexingtonva.gov.

City Manager Search

The City of Lexington is working with the Berkley Group to find Lexington's next City Manager. Following a community forum on July 11, 2019, a City Council work session with representatives from the Berkley Group was held on July 18, 2019. City Council members were provided with the citizen comments from the forum and provided their input in order to create a recruitment profile (minutes from that work session can be found here). On August 7, 2019 the recruitment profile was released after being reviewed by City Council. Stay tuned for updates as we move through this process!

City Manager Recruitment Profile

Weekly Reports

The city manager issues weekly reports to City Council. Subscribe below to receive these reports.