The next city manager

Pasadena Weekly's Andre Coleman took a crack last week at figuring out the next Pasadena city manager, and came up with a few names from some of his sources, including Richard Bruckner, the city's Director of Planning and Development.

Sounds like he thinks he is barking up the right tree with Bruckner:

Interestingly, four City Hall staffers did call us to ask us why we wanted to speak with Bruckner soon after the paper called his office. One person even called just to let us know that the list of candidates is confidential, but no word directly from Bruckner.

The city met again on Friday for a closed-session meeting on the candidates.

Long-time reporter Janette Williams pointed out to me today that the city did not choose to elevate Bruckner to interim city manager when Cynthia Kurtz left.... though he was expected by some to be a candidate.

Which, of course, might mean absolutely nothing.