Is Fullerton Getting a New City Manager?
Item 1 on the Closed Session agenda looks a lot like this:
Since right now we have an “Acting” City Manager, Eddie Manfro, I think we can surmise that this is either an item to select a replacement or to appoint a permanent City Manager, who might be Manfro himself.
Manfro has held a bunch of jobs in Fullerton since his retirement as City Manager in Westminster, a situation that has caused a complaint from CalPERS, the State public employees retirement system, that is currently the subject of possible litigation.
Since I am not privy to the closed door doings of the City Council, it is possible that interviews with other candidates have taken place since the last City Manager, Eric Levitt ditched Fullerton for San Bernardino last summer. If the CM job was posted, it isn’t anymore.
On the face of it, the Fullerton City Manager job can’t be an enviable one what with the looming financial crisis and the roads being the worst in Orange County. Still, the job remuneration will be exceedingly high, and the accountability, as we have seen over the past four City Managers, exceedingly low.
If a decision is made next Tuesday we will be informed at the start of the public meeting.
Manfro has the least to lose. It will be him.
Maybe Jung and Dunlap have decided to bring back Ken Domer for a second act.
Nobody would take the job on a 3-2 vote which is what they would get.