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Running a city has its surprises

While the field of city management brings to mind images of people poring over drainage plans or fixing pot holes, for Redmond Jones, it has occasionally been much more exciting than that: in the course of his duties, he's both been shot at and discovered a dead body.And while instances such as that, which he says have been thankfully rare in his career, do liven up his job, it is the day-to-day activities of helping run a city that Jones, 34, finds best about his job as assistant to City Manager Mark Watson.Having grown up in the strong-mayor city of Cleveland, Jones said when he found his way to the field of urban management in college
 

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