On Monday, the Eudora City Commission named Assistant City Manager Barack Matite as interim city manager effective immediately.

Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin said the decision, which came after an executive session at the close of Monday’s City Commission meeting, was made after it was agreed Gary Ortiz would give up the position as city manager to work as a stay-at-home consultant for the city through June 30.

In February, the City Commission came to an agreement with Ortiz that had him stay on as city manager through the end of his current contract on June 30. The City Commission was unwilling to extend Ortiz’s contract because of his inability to meet a contractual requirement that he reside in the city or the Eudora school district.

Reazin said Matite would be interim city manager through June while commissioners consider options for conducting a search to fill the position. The mayor said that the City Commission may offer the position to Matite on a permanent basis.

A full plate of issues before the city — which include negotiations with the Nottingham Property developer CBC Real Estate Group, the 2017 budget and a possible survey of parks and recreational needs — prompted the move, Reazin said. With the need to move forward on those long-term issues, it was agreed it would be better to have someone at the reins in City Hall who would be around for more than the next month, he said.

The arrangement would also allow Ortiz to devote more time for his search for a new position, Reazin said.

Ortiz started in Eudora in June 2014, leaving a seven-year post as assistant county manager of Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., to take the job.

Matite has been with the city for four years, working his way up from a graduate student internship. Reazin said during that time he has become the face of City Hall.

In other business, the City Commission:

• Approved revised regulations for off-street parking that have been discussed in six public workshops or Eudora Planning Commission meetings in recent months. The regulations set construction standards for residential and commercial driveways and parking lots, establish a minimum number of three parking spaces for each single-family home, duplex or apartment unit and requires all vehicles parked under a carport to be registered and operable.

The ordinance mandates any passenger vehicle parked on a public street, alley or right of way be moved every 48 hours.

The most controversial changes, however, were those regulating off-street recreational vehicle parking. The new regulations stipulate RVs cannot be parked on a driveway in front of a residence or on the side of a house facing to the street on a corner lot. To protect against intrusion of neighbors’ sight lines, RVs also can no longer be parked in driveways if they extent into right-of-way of a frontage street.

The City Commission did approve a grandfather clause that will allow residents with RVs who obtain a city permit to continue parking the vehicles in front of homes if they don’t extend into a street’s right of way. RV owners will be given six months to apply for the $25 permit, which will be good for as long as they have an RV at their current residence.

RV owners at the meeting contested the fee, saying members of the Eudora Planning Commission had suggested there would be no charge for the permit. Planning commissioners also noted the commissioners would make that final decision. The fee would spare the general citizenry the expense of issuing permits, commissioners noted.

• Agreed they would request only the placement of a full-service ambulance in Eudora during forthcoming discussion with Douglas County Commissioners and staff. That’s different than the city’s requests the past two years when the city asked for either an ambulance service or the less-expensive alternative of a one-person paramedic advanced response unit. Reazin argued a PAR unit won’t offer the level of service the community and eastern Douglas County needed or reduce the city’s average response time of 15 minutes, 55 seconds.

• Appointed Ryan Rock to fill a vacant seat on the planning commission.