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...Monday night, Councillor Thomas H.D. Mahoney, head of the search for a new manager, had received 24 replies to advertisements seeking applicants with five years experience in City administration. The advertisements have appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post and will also be in the bi-weekly newsletter sent to all city managers...
Trodden said that the three councillors were illegally using Dunphy as a "hatchet man" in violation of the Commonwealth statute forbidding any councillor to "direct or request the removal or appointment" of a city official (such as the City Solicitor) for whom the manager is responsible. He notified the council that he would be a candidate for the position of city manager...
Hayes charged the un-named councillor with "fronting" for the Wasserman Development Corp. Only later did he admit that he was referring to Crane...
...have had to sound them out on any decision other than the most routine. DeGuglielmo probably knew this, and it is unlikely that he really expected to remain as interim manager. The bloc opposing him had waited two years to dismiss him; they had the votes, and, as one councillor put it, "the ball game was over...
Each of the past two City Managers solved this problem in his own way. Most observers considered Crane and Curry as one political unit. DeGuglielmo--a former councillor--made most of the major decisions of his administration; his council supporters merely ratified them. What the Council-Manager relationship will be under the next administration is still an open question...