Livingston looks at disciplining or firing a department head
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Submitted by scottjason on Thu, 2008-06-05 16:01. |
Livingston's City Council will meet tonight in an emergency session to discuss one of the city's three department heads with the possibility of firing the manager.
Because it falls into a personnel issue, the city won't divulge who will be talked about. Of course, if a city job becomes vacant, it'll be clear.
The closed-door discussions will relate to either disciplining, dismissing or releasing an employee, according to the agenda.
Livingston only has three department heads: Police Chief Bill Eldridge, Planning Department Director Donna Kenney and Public Works Director Paul Creighton.
I can't imagine it being the chief because he just announced he was rescinding his retirement, so that leaves Kenney and Creighton. While there's always some drama in Livingston, I've never heard complaints about either of them. I'm curious to see the outcome.
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Submitted by Marwood on Fri, 2008-06-06 14:15.
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I wonder if it could have anything to do with the City Council Chambers costing 60,000 instead of the 7,000 that was estimated. I will never forget Mayor Samra bragging about how cheap it was - of course that was before he knew what was spent!
Kind of coincidental is it not....
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Submitted by charade on Thu, 2008-06-05 20:36.
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...that Chief Eldridge would pull his retirement just prior to this issue coming to light? Obviously, the city couldn't afford to be out two managers at the same time when they have but three. Agreed, Eldridge is not the focus of this issue but I'm betting that its the city manager that may go.
Since Eldridge has filled the city manager position once before in his tenure he would be a shoe-in to fill the vacancy, possibly leaving his newly appointed Lieutenant Sharon Silva as Livingston's Top-Cop, which incidently may have been hatched some time ago.
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