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Ferguson appoints third city manager in as many months
Source: Associated Press
Ferguson appoints third city manager in as many months
Associated Press in Ferguson, Missouri
Wednesday 10 June 2015 21.19 BST
Ferguson has hired its third city manager since a scathing Justice Department report in March forced a city hall shake-up and called into question the legal system in the St Louis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Michael Brown.
The Ferguson city council on Tuesday night signed on Ed Beasley as interim city manager for a term of up to six months to oversee the 21,000-resident city. It also hired former St Louis circuit judge Donald McCullin, 74, as its municipal judge. Beasley’s contract, including salary and a housing stipend, totals $84,500, while McCullin will earn $450 per court session.
Beasley, 57, managed the 226,000-resident Phoenix suburb of Glendale for a decade until 2012, a year before an audit accused him and his employees of deceiving Glendale’s governing board about soaring expenses tied to an early retirement program initially created to help solve a budget shortfall. The audit also faulted Beasley for payments to two high-level executives.
Ferguson mayor James Knowles III said the council was aware of the audit, but he believed it was mostly politically motivated.
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Associated Press in Ferguson, Missouri
Wednesday 10 June 2015 21.19 BST
Ferguson has hired its third city manager since a scathing Justice Department report in March forced a city hall shake-up and called into question the legal system in the St Louis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Michael Brown.
The Ferguson city council on Tuesday night signed on Ed Beasley as interim city manager for a term of up to six months to oversee the 21,000-resident city. It also hired former St Louis circuit judge Donald McCullin, 74, as its municipal judge. Beasley’s contract, including salary and a housing stipend, totals $84,500, while McCullin will earn $450 per court session.
Beasley, 57, managed the 226,000-resident Phoenix suburb of Glendale for a decade until 2012, a year before an audit accused him and his employees of deceiving Glendale’s governing board about soaring expenses tied to an early retirement program initially created to help solve a budget shortfall. The audit also faulted Beasley for payments to two high-level executives.
Ferguson mayor James Knowles III said the council was aware of the audit, but he believed it was mostly politically motivated.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/ferguson-appoints-third-city-manager
