"I'm all rumored out"

That's what La Puente Mayor Louie Lujan told me this afternoon in response to the consultant proposal story that ran in today's paper.

Lujan said he wants to move on with the project already, and just focus on getting things done.

But in the meantime, there likely will be further discussion on this failed agreement between the Charles Co. and Alliance Services Group, Inc. and whether "something fishy" was actually going on.

Lujan said the City Council will perform City Manager Carol Cowley's employee performance evaluation in closed session on Monday (they've been putting this off for a while now).

"I'm sure this will come up," Lujan said. That's because, he said, some of the council members (most vocally, Dan Holloway) have taken issue with the fact that Cowley didn't bring up the proposed contract and voicemail with the council before, even though she knew about it.