Friday, February 18, 2011

KION CENTRAL COAST NEWS: 'Guillen is Gone, What’s the Next Step?'

Guillen is Gone, What’s the Next Step?
Duration: 2:55

On Thursday, February 17, News Anchor Marc Cota-Robles announced HELP WANTED, CITY ADMINISTRATOR, $200,000 PLUS BENEFITS & LIVE IN BEAUTIFUL CARMEL! Brooke Holmquist reported that the during the Guillen crisis the public debate changed from what should happen to City Administrator Rich Guillen to how the City Council handled the situation "as a whole." Carolyn Hardy, Tony Bhutani and Adam Moniz were interviewed by Holmquist. They stated that they “aren’t going away” even though Rich Guillen is retiring. Carolyn Hardy stated that Carmel needs a “real open, community-based process.” Tony Bhutani stated that he would attend the upcoming meeting to “make sure Carmel doesn’t remain the laughingstock of the Peninsula.” Former mayoral candidate Adam Moniz stated that Carmel needs many people to run in the next election and “we need people who want to participate in this government.” City Council Member Jason Burnett advocated for public participation and input at an upcoming meeting on the process for the selection of the next city administrator. News Anchor Jasmine Viel announced that the first public meeting on the selection of a new city administrator is next Tuesday, 22 February 2011 at 5:00 P.M. at Carmel City Hall.

Guillen is Gone; What's Next for Carmel?
Posted: Feb 17, 2011 6:16 PM PST

1 comment:

To Be or Not To Be said...

To be or not to be sincere about moving on, that is the question. If the “move on” group think crowd is sincere and serious, then the group will not look backwards to a mythical golden age or advocate for interim city administrator anyone connected with Jane Miller’s lawsuit like “Female B” (Heidi Burch) and “Employee #1” (Greg D’Ambrosio). Likewise, the Carmel city council should only consider applicants with recent city management experience, preferably management experience in more than one city. The Carmel city council is not the caliber of the Ojai city council – council members had the integrity to vote to relieve city manager Jere Kersnar earlier this year and announce the unanimous vote to the public pursuant to Government Code Section 54957(b), the public employee discipline-dismissal-release code – but hopefully the Carmel city council will not bungle the search and selection process like they bungled the Rich Guilen affair(s) over many, many years and just recently during the past two years.