{"id":388931,"date":"2026-09-03T03:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388931\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:36:20","slug":"stuart-moves-to-rehire-ex-city-manager-michael-mortell-after-giardinos-sudden-firing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388931\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart moves to rehire ex-city manager Michael Mortell after Giardino\u2019s sudden firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Following the stunning firing of Stuart City Manager Michael Giardino, the city is opting to bring in a familiar face to fill the position.<\/p>\n

Giardino was fired last week<\/a> after Stuart City Commissioners voted to remove him only 4 months into his tenure at the position. In an ironic twist, the city is now looking to bring back former City Manager Michael Mortell to take his place.<\/p>\n

Mortell served as the City Manager from March 2023 until his firing in October 2025 following a 3-2 vote by city commissioners. Less than a year after his firing, the city commission voted to offer Mortell his job back, and they\u2019ll meet on September 9th to approve of his new contract.<\/p>\n

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In his new deal, he would begin as Stuart City Manager on September 14th with a salary of $225,000 a year, a noticeable decrease from his previous salary of $265,000 before his firing last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Following the stunning firing of Stuart City Manager Michael Giardino, the city is opting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-388931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388931","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=388931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}