selected him<\/a> to fill the vacant position created after former City Manager Lydia Romero\u2019s contract was not renewed. She was the city\u2019s top administrator for over 10 years.<\/p>\n\u201cDuring this transition period, my focus is going to be steadying the ship,\u201d Winney said at the time.<\/p>\n
The city contracted with Bob Murray and Associates to provide recruiting services in the search for a permanent chief administrator.<\/p>\n
When he was first brought on by the council, the recruitment process was expected to take approximately half a year. City leaders have met numerous times in closed session in recent months to discuss filling the position; however, there is no indication that a selection is near.<\/p>\n
Winney\u2019s contract will end when a permanent city manager is hired, or if either party chooses to terminate the agreement, according to a staff report. He will be paid based on an annual salary of $215,000, per the employment agreement.<\/p>\n
Mat Kostrinsky, a consultant for local labor union AFSCME Local 127, said the group supports the extension, but was concerned that \u201cthis crucial hire is being treated as a rushed top-down decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the culture and challenges presented by the previous administration here, wouldn\u2019t it make sense to actively seek and incorporate staff and public input?\u201d he asked the city council.<\/p>\n
At the same time, city leaders recently proposed a staffing overhaul they hope will bring more structure<\/a> to the city\u2019s overall operations. That includes plans to hire a full-time code enforcement officer and fill a senior management analyst position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders in Lemon Grove extended the city\u2019s contract with interim City Manager Tony Winney as the city\u2019s nationwide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,3053,181,6503,23,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-408624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-east-county","tag-latest-headlines","tag-lemon-grove","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}