The other semifinalists were William Johnson, an assistant city manager in Fort Worth, and Mario Lara, an assistant city manager in Sacramento, California.

The Dallas City Council is on the cusp of ending its near year-long search of finding the city’s top administrative official Wednesday. The council

Dallas City Council members met behind closed doors on Wednesday morning to discuss hiring one of the three finalists for the role -- interim Dallas City Manager Kim Tolbert, assistant Fort Worth City Manager William Johnson, or assistant Sacramento City Manager Mario Lara. After that deliberation, they publicly voted to offer Tolbert the job.