I come not to bury Glendora...
but I'm also not praising it. Tonight they're expected to announce a new city manager.
With solid defensive action by lobbying groups, cities are not obligated by open-meeting laws to announce before the meeting who they have picked and negotiated a contract with. They can but most don't. I find it hard to believe that the public should not be able to comment on a city's top executive position; and I don't find it hard to believe that cities don't try to be more open about it. The city's statement that the release of the new manager's name 'could jeopardize his relationship with the city that now employs him' is absurd.
On a side note, Glendora also played dumb with releasing the employee contract. That, of course, is a violation of the Ralph M. Brown Act.
UPDATE: Alison Hewitt says it's Monterey Park City Manager Chris Jeffers. Better yet, she said they introduced him before they voted hiring him or approving his contract.
Your letters to the editor as well as the front (home page) have become so out of date that other then having a place to hang your advertising it really useless
In the event that you were unaware of this.
D.A. Won't file charges in political vandalism - Glendora
From Times Staff Reports
June 8, 2007
"That's the end of it," said Glendora Police Chief Charles Montoya.
Two teenage girls and the mother of one of them will not be charged with vandalizing campaign signs after the district attorney's office decided not to file a complaint, officials said Thursday.
The Police Department had referred the case to prosecutors, alleging that 18-year-olds Keleigh Marshall and Christina Giammalva put stickers on the political signs of Glendora elected leaders, including Councilman Gary Clifford. The stickers read, "This sign violates Glendora city ordinance," a reference to the city law prohibiting campaign signs on public property.