{"id":6168,"date":"2025-10-15T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/6168\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:48:35","slug":"california-city-councilman-resigns-amid-controversy-and-resolution-to-censure-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/6168\/","title":{"rendered":"California City councilman resigns amid controversy and resolution to censure him"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 California City’s leadership faces another shake-up as Councilman Michael Hurles resigns amid controversy<\/a> and a pending resolution to publicly censure him. <\/p>\n

Hurles, the third council member to resign in three months, stepped down before the censure resolution was made public. <\/p>\n

The resolution accused him of misusing city resources, engaging in unauthorized negotiations, displaying hostile behavior, and missing meetings. <\/p>\n

Hurles said he resigned two and a half hours after receiving the resolution, believing the council would have voted 4\u20130 to remove him. <\/p>\n

“As far as the city, I’m done with the city,” Hurles said. <\/p>\n

The resolution also cited an incident where Hurles allegedly lunged at council member Smith during a closed session. <\/p>\n

Mayor Hawkins stated, “Based on the conduct and behavior of former member Hurles, we all agreed that we needed to take action.” <\/p>\n

Hurles attributed his absences to health issues from a rollover accident in July, saying, “And as far as I know, you’re allowed to be sick.” <\/p>\n

With Hurles’ resignation, Creighton will assume his committee assignments and has been appointed as the new mayor pro tem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 California City’s leadership faces another shake-up as Councilman Michael Hurles resigns amid controversy and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7,6635,5795,5794,2500,6637,6636,4311],"class_list":["post-6168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california","tag-censure","tag-controversy","tag-councilman","tag-leadership","tag-meetings","tag-misuse","tag-resignation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168","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=6168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}