{"id":380834,"date":"2026-08-25T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380834\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:22:10","slug":"stuart-fires-city-manager-and-votes-to-rehire-predecessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380834\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart fires city manager and votes to rehire predecessor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart fires city manager and votes to rehire predecessor<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787678530_475_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>STUART, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The city of Stuart has fired city manager Michael Giardino and voted to rehire his predecessor, Michael Mortell, during a meeting last night.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">This marks the second firing of a city manager in Stuart this year. Mortell, who was fired without cause last year, was rehired with a 3-1 vote by the city commission.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">One commissioner brought up past investigations against Mortell.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">However, others argued his record proves he is fit to come back.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The reason for Giardino\u2019s firing has not yet been disclosed, but it is effective immediately.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Community Services Director Jim Chrulski was appointed as the interim city manager while Mortell reviews the offer.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart fires city manager and votes to rehire predecessor STUART, Fla. \u2014 The city of Stuart has fired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3305,91018,6686,965,90714,670,152838,171,173,172,152836,152837,959,26002,13983,221,189,164],"class_list":["post-380834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-city-manager","tag-giardino","tag-late-headline","tag-michael-mortell","tag-offer","tag-other","tag-past-investigation","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-predecessor","tag-second-firing","tag-stuart","tag-up-to-date","tag-vote","tag-weather","tag-wpbf","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}