City Administrator Takes Arizona Post
Assistant City Manager Prisilla Hernandez, who has served as Oxnard’s acting city manager for the past year, is leaving to return to her hometown of Peoria, Ariz.
Hernandez has taken the job of deputy city manager in the growing Phoenix suburb of about 80,000 residents. She starts her new job next month.
She will take a pay cut of about $6,000 from her current annual salary of $105,000 but said family reasons compelled her to move.
“This is really a personal move for me,” Hernandez said. Many of her 11 brothers and sisters live in the Phoenix area, she said.
Hernandez is credited with guiding the city through an acrimonious few months after the firing of City Manager Tom Frutchey. She was considered a strong contender to become city manager until she withdrew from consideration last fall. The new city manager, Edmund F. Sotelo, takes over in two weeks.
Hernandez, 47, came to Oxnard three years ago after working in municipal posts in several Arizona communities.
Another Oxnard official, Police Chief Harold Hurtt, plans to leave soon for Phoenix, where he is seeking the job of police chief.
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