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City Council approves Mayor’s removal of City Manager

November 19, 2009 | 3 Comments

The City Council just upheld Mayor Funkhouser’s surprise removal of City Manager Wayne Cauthen. Councilmembers Cindy Circo, Beth Gottstein, and Jan Marcason all switched sides after originally voting to keep the Manager back in December 2007.

It seems that for the moment that the Manager is suspended with pay. The Council is still two votes short of the nine needed to terminate Cauthen. The City’s Budget Director Troy Schulte will serve as Acting City Manager.

Categories: City Council, KC Mayor, Politics


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3 Comments so far

  1. John on November 19, 2009 10:51 pm

    They should have allowed him to terminate Cauthen in 2007. NO mayor should be forced to work with a manager that he can’t work with.

  2. Lady Gaga on November 20, 2009 9:31 am

    It does not take nine votes to terminate.

    It is either:

    the Mayor plus six votes OR
    nine votes with the Mayor opposed.

  3. locomotivebreath1901 on November 21, 2009 3:08 pm

    I agree with John. Cauthen long ago proved to be ineffectual, if not incompetent. The cantankerous council compounded the incompetence with their own malfeasance to extend Cauthen’s contract.

    The only equitable solution is to have the council pay for this blunder out of their own pocket.
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