Coos Bay council fires city manager.Byline: Winston Winston is a name deriving from Old English wynnstān, meaning "pleasant stone". Places Winston is the name of several places in England:
British physician. He won a 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that malaria is transmitted to humans by the bite of the mosquito. The Register-Guard COOS BAY Coos Bay (k  s), city (1990 pop. 15,076), Coos co., SW Oreg., a port of entry on Coos Bay; founded 1854 as Marshfield, inc. 1874, renamed 1944. - The City Council fired its city manager on Tuesday
night, two years after Scott McClure Scott F. McClure is an American politician who in 2004 ran a write-in campaign for United States Senate in Idaho. A Democrat, McClure ran against Republican incumbent Mike Crapo. took the job.
Mayor Joe Benetti said the council had evaluated McClure six times in the past 22 months, largely to try to iron out differences between the manager and the council. In the end, the two sides weren't able to come to terms, Benetti said. "We were unable to resolve it, and felt it was time to terminate the situation," Benetti said. "It's a very progressive city right now, and we want the manager to move in that direction. There are a lot of subdivisions and developers coming in, and we have to have someone willing to keep pace with that. That didn't seem to be the case (with McClure)." City Councilor coun·cil·or also coun·cil·lor n. A member of a council, as one convened to advise a governor. See Usage Note at council. coun Jeff McKeown said he didn't want to "beat up on" McClure, but said that he "wasn't a good fit for what we need here in Coos Bay." "We just needed a more aggressive manager who could get the types of things done we need to get done," McKeown said. Two of the council's seven members, John Muenchrath and Roger Gould, voted against terminating McClure. City recorder Joyce Jansen will become interim city manager until the council can find a permanent replacement. McClure did not return phone calls to The Register-Guard. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Coos Bay's government Web site, the city hired McClure in November 2004. Before that, he was the city administrator in Brush, Colo., where he had worked since May 1996. He also had worked in various positions for the city of Gresham from July 1989 through April 1996. He has a master's of public administration and a bachelor's in political science at Portland State University. |
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