Central Los Angeles : Job Security Doesn’t Come With the Post
Unsteady might be too kind a word to describe the situation Charles M. Trevino faces in Bell Gardens.
Trevino, 47, a water district board member and a former rent investigator and management analyst for the Los Angeles Housing Department, recently became the fourth city manager in Bell Gardens in three years. He has a one-year contract worth $105,000.
If recent history serves, Trevino will have to show his management aptitude in a hurry.
Trevino replaces Charles Gomez, who was dismissed in February after city officials said he should have warned them that revenue from the Bicycle Club, which covers 60% of the city’s operating costs, was declining.
Another city manager, Claude T. Booker, was fired after a bitter 1991 recall election created a Latino council majority.
The new council members said he did not adequately serve Latinos, who make up 95% of the city’s population.
And the council dismissed Booker’s successor, William Vasquez, saying he had too little experience to run the city.
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