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Can Mayor and City Admin. Work Together?
posted (April 6, 2018)
So, with such a negative characterization of the management style that Mayor Wagner says prevailed in the last administration - even with the City Administrator's suspension is over - can he work with her? That's what we asked him today:...

Jules Vasquez
"Can you move forward with her?"

Bernard Wagner
"The reality of it- we've got to be real in this business; people might say it is political victimization. The fact of the matter is that the past mayor when he undertook to give the contract to the city administrator with a term passing the life of this administration he clearly put her under significant scrutiny. It is sad, it is a sad situation; I definitely won't put any of my city administrators in that position. Listen, man, we have to be real; the city administrator was out there campaigning for the United Democratic Party council. And it doesn't matter how you swing it or how you twist it that professionalism this and that, Jules, at the end of the day we've got to be real and come what may we have to be real. We can't play like this is something that isn't eating us inside, it is eating everybody inside but the mayor was the main cause of this, right; he put a lot of scrutiny. My administrator needs to either look at her past mayor and say listen, man, you put me in a bad position. That is how I look at it."

Jules Vasquez
"You sound like you have a real dilemma but it is a very expensive one mayor because these things can be settled quite easily but quite expensively because if someone has a multiyear contract then you have to pay them off."

Bernard Wagner
"Well, we'll leave that for when we cross that bridge. I can't comment on that."

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