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Mayor Bev Perry said this week that the City Council hopes to have interim City Manager Tim O’Donnell sign an agreement to make his position permanent by July 18.
The city has to negotiate salary issues and benefits, which Councilman Steve Vargas said would be lower than the combined compensation salary and bonuses former City Manager Frank Benest had built up during his 11 years with the city, before he left for Palo Alto.
The city’s three-month search for a new city manager ended June 30 with the council’s unanimous closed-session vote to offer the job to O’Donnell, Brea’s longtime assistant city manager, who had filled in for Benest on a temporary basis since April.
It will be up to O’Donnell to decide whether to hire an assistant city manager.
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