Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/18/2013 07:17:56 PM PST
SAN BERNARDINO – A new city manager will be in place one month from now when Acting City Manager Andrea Travis-Miller leaves, Mayor Pat Morris pledged Friday.
Travis-Miller, who has been acting city manager since May, accepted a job as executive director of the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments starting Feb. 19.
That will require cutting short the nationwide, multi-finalist recruitment process the city has used to fill other top spots, but Travis-Miller leaving without an assistant city manager in place necessitates it, said Morris, who has responsibility under the city’s charter to appoint a candidate who must then be approved by the City Council.
“That was a time-honored process, in my view,” he said, referring to the exhaustive search for a police chief and others brought to the city during his tenure. “But in this instance, we haven’t got the time to go through that kind of nationwide process and a culling process.”
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Holy smoke Batman!
Oh my gosh, am I the only one that is scared to death to find that we have a council member that doesn’t know what a City manager does but thinks the City Council can do the job? Mr. Valdivia, getting enough votes to be elected doesn’t mean you have the skills, intelligence or experience to do ANY City job!
Alfred!
So what, will there be an influx of new businesses? San Bernardino is doomed to become a greater sh_th_le than it already has become under the stewardship of Pat the socialist. We don’t really need a city manager, we need a catastrophic earthquake to get us back to square one.