Interim city manager officials gets three-month extension

By: The Californian - | Tuesday, August 7, 2007 11:22 PM PDT ∞

MURRIETA -- Ron Bradley will continue as interim city manager through Oct. 31, the City Council decided Tuesday.

The council unanimously approved an extension of Bradley's $25,000-per-month deal through October. Bradley has said he won't stay longer than that -- even if a new city manager hasn't been hired -- because of restrictions on his retirement plan.

In early July, Bradley announced he would resign July 31 at the end of his original six-month contract. But Mayor Doug McAllister and other council members convinced Bradley to stay on for a few more months.

Bradley was originally hired to assess the hierarchy of City Hall and to find Murrieta's next city manager. He quickly identified "defects" within City Hall's structure, but only recently began to address the search for his replacement.

If a new city manager isn't in place by Nov. 1, Deputy City Manager Jim Holston could be tapped as an interim chief, Murrieta leaders have said. McAllister has said he is hopeful a new city manager will be in City Hall by that date.

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Defects? wrote on Aug 8, 2007 9:16 AM:Why would the council hire an interim person to set up a managerial structure for someone else who may come in and want to set up his own managerial structure? Organizational structures are set up to take advantage of strengths and diminish weaknesses. This task is one that should have been accomplished by the permanent City Manager, not an interim one. Of course, if this was more of a politically motivated reorganization wrongfully driven by council people instead of a functionally motivated effort, that would explain it.

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