City Manager of Palm Springs Quits
Palm Springs City Manager Norman R. King, who presided over the desert city’s painful adjustment to mounting competition from neighboring tourist resorts, resigned Thursday at the request of the City Council.
The council, during a closed-door session earlier this week, voted 3 to 2 to ask King to step down, Mayor Sonny Bono said.
On Thursday, the veteran administrator announced he would comply, ending his 11 years as top executive in this city of 40,000.
The resignation comes two months after a shift in membership on the City Council, and most observers attributed his departure to the changing political landscape. Two new council members, Chuck Murawski and Deyna Hodges, were elected in April, and Murawski had pledged to curb what he called the excessive influence King and his staff had wielded.
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