Acting city manager Lori Sassoon headed to Villa Park
Acting city manager Lori Sassoon is scheduled to start a new job as Villa Park's next city manager June 1.
"It's a great job for me," she said.
June 1 is the same day that city manager-designate Charles McNeely and police chief-designate Keith Kilmer are scheduled to begin working in San Bernardino.
Villa Park, south of Anaheim and surrounded by Orange, is the smallest city in Orange County. The 2.1 square mile town has about 6,500 residents. Sassoon is scheduled to earn a salary of $120,000.
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San Bernardino is about to say good-bye to a valuable member of its leadership/managerial team. Ms. Sassoon acting City Manager is taking another step upward in her professional career. That is wonderful for her, yet another blow for the fledging management team that due to her leadership kept this City functioning in-spite of all the events of the last 4 years. There have been some good things happen but sadly they were always overshadowed by headline grabbing events that were less than admirable. Through thick and thin, abrupt departures, dismissals, arrests, unbelievably poor higher level decision makings, Ms. Sassoon was there to salvage what could be salvaged and kept the behind the scenes of San Bernardino functioning the best it could. Talent like hers does not come by often and when a City loses it; it will be felt for months or years to come. A great debt of gratitude is owed to Ms. Sassoon for doing the impossible with nothing. Her new opportunity although not unexpected did come as a surprise. Good people keep advancing and San Bernardino missed a golden opportunity to keep her around. Sadly, perhaps it was politics as usual?
Well, that's your opinion. If Ms. Sassoon was so good, why is it that she has always been the second fiddle, the one who has to do all of the behind the scenes jobs, filled in for department head positions as they have left the city, why did she not ever apply for one of those positions? If she was so valuable and valued the job she had, why did not she apply for the city manager position, is it because they would not have considered her for the job? So off she goes to a position as city manager of a teenie weenie city, well, of course, she can probably do that . . . just another one who has been taking up valuable space at city of SB, and will they really need to refill her position, because it was never really needed. Too much fluff up there on the 6th floor . . . it's time they pare it down.
Really, ""It's a great job for me," she said."
Is that the best reporting we could do on this story? Why even have the quote at all, it adds nothing to the story?
Good for Lori! She deserves to be somewhere where she is appreciated!
Shan,
I had heard that the walls at city hall have ears. Yours must be the biggest!
Either way, cheap shot Shan. So maybe one must consider the source.