LOS ANGELES COUNTY JILTED AGAIN SECOND CAO CANDIDATE REJECTS JOB OFFER.Byline: TROY ANDERSON Staff Writer In another embarrassing blow to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County, a second candidate to be offered the chief administrative post turned it down Tuesday just a day after it was announced he had accepted it. The Board of Supervisors had said Monday that Orange County Executive Officer Thomas G. Mauk had accepted Los Angeles' $270,000-a-year job. But Tuesday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. met with Mauk in closed session and said they had convinced him to stay with an 8 percent raise he declined to take last June and another 4 percent raise effective Jan. 1. ``This is pretty embarrassing for the county to have a second person actually turn them down,'' said Bob Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies. ``It seems almost like these people are using the county to enhance their other positions. This shows how difficult a job this is if people are expressing interest and then not accepting the position once it's offered.'' Orange County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair John Moorlach said the supervisors met with Mauk on Tuesday and made him the counteroffer In contract law, a proposal made in response to an original offer modifying its terms, but which has the legal effect of rejecting it. A counteroffer normally terminates the original offer, but the original offer remains open for acceptance if the counteroffer expressly . ``I guess the fact that Los Angeles County asked him could serve just as well as a capstone for his illustrious il·lus·tri·ous adj. 1. Well known and very distinguished; eminent. See Synonyms at noted. 2. Obsolete Shining brightly. career as opposed to actually doing it,'' Moorlach said. In a prepared statement, Mauk said he has a lot more work to do in Orange County. ``The support of the Orange County Board of Supervisors and staff of the county was key to my decision,'' Mauk said. ``The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. said he was disappointed to learn Mauk had decided to stay in Orange County. ``We thought we had an agreement as of (Monday) morning and we did have an agreement, but Mr. Mauk obviously had a change of heart for whatever reason, and it's Orange County's gain,'' Yaroslavsky said. ``We thought very highly of Tom and obviously so did the Orange County Board of Supervisors, and congratulations to them. We have to move on and we will.'' Mauk is the second candidate to turn down an offer to replace retiring Chief Administrative Officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive David Janssen. Earlier this month, the supervisors offered the position to Sandra L. Vargas, the administrator for Hennepin County, Minn., but she turned it down and instead accepted a job heading a charitable foundation in Minneapolis. Janssen, who retired Jan. 16 from his $242,000-a-year job, has been rehired under contract for $20,176 a month while a successor is sought. Mauk's decision to reject Los Angeles' offer could make it more difficult to find a permanent replacement for Janssen, said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior scholar at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission School of Policy, Planning & Development. ``I think again it underscores the reality that Los Angeles County has a lot of problems, and they may be perceived as too daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin by people who otherwise might be available,'' she said. troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com (213) 974-8985 |
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