Dumped assistant city manager a finalist for Michigan job
From Jonathan Ahl’s blog:
Apparently former Peoria Assistant City Manager Craig Whitehead is a finalist for the position of city manager in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A couple media types have called to pick my brain about what I know about the man whose job was eliminated during the time I was covering the goings on at 419 Fulton Street. I don’t recall any city council members ever saying anything positive about Mr. Whitehead.
My take on Whitehead’s termination.
If the Kay Royster experience taught me anything, though, it’s that when governments go looking to hire chief administrators, the LAST thing they do is use Google. Not that I am comparing Whitehead to Royster. That’s a whole new level of crazy. The problem with Whitehead was that no one on the council could really figure out what Whitehead did to justify his whopping salary.
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Steve j weibring
whitehead was the major friend, friends of the leaders don’t have to justify existentence at work.
another useless city employee