Marlene Best is as director of the city of Santee, and the municipal council is looking for an interim replacement.
Friday, surprise development was revealed when the municipal council held a special meeting on camera to discuss the appointment of an temporary manager. No appointment was announced after the meeting.
Another special meeting was called to the very unusual period of Sunday evening of Easter to discuss again the appointment of an interim city director, but no announcement was made.
On Monday, the city published a revised program for its Wednesday City Council meeting which includes an article on hiring an interim replacement at best.
According to the article on the agenda, the position of municipal director will be vacant on Wednesday, which probably means that Best will not participate. The wording on the agenda does not indicate if his departure was a resignation or a dismissal.
There was no apparent public disagreement between the municipal director and the municipal council during the meetings, and the mayor John Minto did not return a phone to discuss his departure on Monday.
A request from the San Diego Union-Tribune for a comment from Best received an answer by e-mail from the city’s marketing director, Bree Osborne, who said that the best “refused the possibility of making a public comment or providing an official declaration at present”.
A request from the law on public files for any document or email on the resignation of Best received an answer by e-mail from the municipal clerk James Jeffries who wrote that the request had been received and that the city had 10 days to respond.
Best was hired as director of the city of Santee in 2016 and previously worked 10 years at the same position in the city of Imperial. She was also a municipal director of Calexico and director of the assistant city in Lake Elsinore.
In an article by San Diego Union-Tribune in 2019, described itself better as “a daughter of the county of East” who graduated from Helix High School in 1978 and lived in the region of all his life.
Best made his debut in the employment of the city by working in the leisure service of Lemon Grove in 1980 and continued to live in the county of East even while working in Imperial and Calexico, according to the article.
On Wednesday, the resolution before the municipal council indicates that he is looking for an temporary manager to serve until the hiring of a permanent replacement.
The new rental should be a Calpers retired and will be hired so as not to work more than 24 weeks at a remuneration rate of $ 126.14 per hour, according to Wednesday’s agenda. The best, 64, won $ 269,000 a year.
His departure marks the second time this month, a city in the County of San Diego lost a director of the city. Friday, Ben Martinez resigned from his post as municipal director of National City.
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