La Puente city manager position in limbo

So it looks like the city manager search in La Puente is really on hold, since interim city manager Frank Tripepi is going to stay on with the city through the end of the fiscal year.

Mayor Louie Lujan said the post is still open, but the city hasn't received anymore applications since the first round of applications came in a few months back.

There are two finalists who are still technically in the running for the job (a third dropped out in the middle of the process). But since Tripepi is staying on, everyone is sort of waiting.

"The plan is to run through the budgeted amount through the fiscal year, and when we are approaching the amount we have budgeted for Frank, a couple of months before that I plan on holding a series of special meetings to determine what the council wants to do," Lujan said.

Because of the way things have been running at City Hall since Tripepi came on, Lujan said there is no concern about not having a permanent, full-time city manager on board.