New Vote Planned on Manager’s Contract
The Pasadena City Council will decide Monday in open session whether to extend the city manager’s contract for two years after local union leaders questioned whether a yes vote on the issue taken two weeks ago behind closed doors may have violated the state’s open meeting law.
Representatives of the city employees union contend that the vote to extend City Manager Philip Hawkey’s contract violated the Brown Act because the meeting agenda called the closed session a performance evaluation and did not mention a contract extension.
An attorney for the city recommended that the issue be placed on Monday’s council agenda. In a report, special legal counsel Michele Beal Bagneris noted the allegations of Brown Act violations and advised the council to take another vote in open session.
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