Attempt to Fire Official Is Costly

Yorba Linda put the city manager on paid administrative leave and then fired him. Then it appointed an interim city manager to fill out the term for more salary than the old city manager received.

Then we find that the Yorba Linda City Council did not follow the legal process properly; this with the present mayor being the attorney.

Now we are strapped with an interim manager while the prior manager is enjoying a paid administrative leave that may well extend into the year 2001.

From this I gather that the mayor in his attempt to retrieve a maximum of $300,000 is willing to spend $315,000 on additional salaries alone plus legal fees in the order of $200,000, plus a potential liability of several hundred thousand to millions of dollars, all of which is taxpayers’ money.

If this is the thinking, then I say, who needs a dunderhead mayor like this?

JACK HIGGINS

Yorba Linda