ABSTRACT: As reported, City Attorney Don Freeman came out of closed session and stated, "at this time we have no public announcement."
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6 comments:
Carmel is so stupid, they will probably hire back recently fired jere Kersnar who has really been bounced around.
City Administrator Rich Guillen is merely the symptom; the etiology is Mayor Sue McCloud. Until Carmelites deal with the root cause of all the dysfunction and micromanagement and corruption by standing up to Sue McCloud and calling for her resignation, business as usual will continue unabated at city hall. In fact, if Sue does throw Rich under the bus, she will be empowered to say “see we have dealt with the problem and now we must move on.” Simply put, any action on Rich Guillen will serve as a distraction of treating the symptom while the metastatic disease continues rampaging throughout city government and the city at large poisoning everything in its path.
Recall, recall, recall, recall & recall all 5 council members, including Jason Burnett who does not have the fortitude to say publicly Rich Guillen must go and who cannot be trusted to enforce a zero tolerance policy against sexual harassment. All five members have mishandled this situation from the day of the city’s $600,000 settlement with Jane Miller. For Jason, Sue, Ken, Karen & Paula to not have publicly called for the departure of Rich Guillen makes them all culpable. Shame on all of them for giving Carmel a bad name it may never recover from.
I have reasonable cause to believe that Rich Guillen will resign. The problem is that leaves Carmel on the hook for a lot of cash ($75K +++) AND the unfortunate task of finding a city manager willing to enter the McCloud three-ring circus.
I agree that-at this point-all members of the council are culpable but I would guess that the tag-team of the Mayor and the City Attorney left them no choice. No one Council member wants to be held responsible for further legal action or incur the wrath of the Mayor... who has already demonstrated her ability to set the City's agenda for the immediate future.
Expect an announcement from the legal representatives of Guillen and the City within the next few days, and then watch as City business grinds to a screeching halt for the next 60 days.
Maybe we can ask Jerry Brown to look into this mess after he finishes drawing and quartering the corrupt officials of Bell, CA?
Good point MG -- Jason Burnett is part of the problem, we are now all learning. 5 months in office and no results. Jason is refusing to take a stand on anything. What a disappointment.
Many supporters of Councilman Jason Burnett are making the same mistake supporters of Mayor Sue McCloud have made; and that is, they act to defend and protect their man instead of holding him to an objective standard of representation. For example, citizens have a legitimate right to know where their council members stand on the future employment of City Administrator Rich Guillen-leave city employment or stay. Council members have used closed sessions and privacy and confidentially to escape responsibility for individually taking a stand. All of this added to the overall indecisiveness of the entire council and the council leading the media and public to believe resolution was here when it was not is indicative of fence sitting politicians who are not acting in the interest of the public.
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