Wisconsin Administrator Ejects 6 Weeks After Relocating from Texas
Joseph Turner
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Another case where a public sector executive runs into a public safety buzzsaw.
This week we have the newly hired Kronenwetter city administrator who relocated from Texas only to abruptly resign after tangling with the EMS director. Last week in Texas, we had the Van city manager fired after he fired the police chief.
He had just moved from New Mexico to start the job six months prior.
In other stories, you have city managers in Ohio, Minnesota, and Kansas separating less than a year into their tenures.
And both Pleasantville, Iowa, and Ashland, Maine are losing their city manager who also served as a police chief.
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More than 400 people signed up to be founding members by the original July 15th deadline. However, some technical issues and other reasons made it necessary to extend the deadline.
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ICMA-CM Credential Discussion
This week, I drop a very special multi-part interview with Colorado city manager Michael Penny about the ICMA-CM credential. He is the chair of the Credential Advisory Board (CAB) for the ICMA.
And he is also an founding member of the AAME.
How does he reconcile these two memberships and is he afraid of any retaliation or blowback?
Does the credential measure competency and do job posts mentioning the credential discourage other managers without the credential from applying?
We discuss these issues and more starting this week so make sure you check it out.
Fallout from the James Freed Lawsuit
Last week, the American Association of Municipal Executives secured two stories about the James Freed lawsuit in two communities of the city managers who voted to publicly censure him.
The first was in the City of Encinitas where Pamela Antil serves as the city manager. You can read that story here or by clicking on the image below.
The second story was placed in the City of Moorpark involving their city manager, Troy Brown . You can read that story by clicking on the image below or going to this link.
Now, the mission of the ICMA - International City/County Management Association is to protect and defend the council-manager form of government. However, it isn't a good look when cities all across the country learn that their city manager is being sued for defamation and that it involves the very divisive and controversial issue of COVID vaccine mandates.
Does the ICMA really want more than a dozen cities sending news reporters to cover a trial and reporting on this matter when they could simply do the right thing by apologizing to Freed, rescinding the censure, and cutting him a $5 million check for the damage they have done to his reputation?
I am really curious to see how the ICMA executive board handles this over the next few weeks.
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4 个月Something is rotten in Moor Park. The first related story has this: “They sent out a letter lifting my client’s suspension and canceling the expulsion hearing because they finally realized there was no credible evidence implicating my client,” Bamieh said. “Of course, they failed to apologize because petty, feckless bureaucrats who make embarrassing mistakes never take responsibility for their mistakes.”
Leader in transition
4 个月Joseph Turner It seems a bit disingenuous to say the trial doesn't have anything to do with city business. I presume Brown is a member of ICMA because he's the CM of Moor Park. ICMA is a case study of what happens when fealty to an organization supersedes professional ethics. Having a Soviet-style, "one candidate" election process for the board clearly contributed to the problem. I think Joseph Turner is right. There's going to be tremendous pressure on ICMA to settle the case. At this point, there's already been enough negative publicity to generate an upstart alternate organization for local government CAOs. The executive director has retired. I think the only thing holding up a "deal" is that once it's done, ICMA board members won't be able to hide behind the "pending litigation" excuse.
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4 个月The last two brief paragraphs of the Moor Park article are quite interesting.