So Pasadena has a new city manager, Michael Beck. But what is he going to get paid? More on that later in the day…
Here’s what a Riverside blog had to say about the hiring. And here’s how a Pasadena blog intiated him.
Riverside asst. city manager named Pasadena city manager
By Janette Williams, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 08/11/2008 03:39:04 PM PDT
PASADENA – Michael Beck was named Pasadena’s new city manager Monday and will take up the position on Oct. 1.
Beck, 43, who is assistant city manager in Riverside, emerged from an initial field of 60 candidates as the City Council’s unanimous choice, Mayor Bill Bogaard said.
“We recognize this is one of the most important decisions any City Council can make,” Bogaard said, announcing Beck’s appointment before an audience of city staffers in the City Council Chambers. “We treated it with the urgency and importance consistent with that.”
Beck, Bogaard said, would make a “significant contribution to the future of the city … and provide leadership consistent with the expectations of this great community.”
Beck, a Claremont resident, said Riverside and Pasadena were alike in many ways, including “their historic natures,” commitment to revitalizing their downtowns, their “multigenerational residents,” finding solutions to traffic problems, greenhouse gas emissions and to electricity and water issues.
