South Pasadena : City Picks Interim Manager

Michael Graziano, a former city manager of Los Alamitos, has been selected as South Pasadena’s interim city manager until a permanent replacement for John Bernardi is named.

Bernardi resigned last month to take a similar post in Loma Linda.

Graziano, 59, retired in 1989 after 16 years as city manager in Los Alamitos. He has served since as an interim city manager in San Fernando. He will assume his duties in South Pasadena on Sept. 16.

The council last month hired Sacramento-based Ralph Andersen & Associates to search for Bernardi’s replacement but has not yet released a timetable for filling the position.