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Fred Griffith, Flagler Beach s City Engineer, Abruptly Announces Retirement Under Duress After Reprimand

Flagler Beach City Engineer Fred Griffith speaking with a resident after an especially contentious neighborhood meeting about the city’s swale construction project in February. (© FlaglerLive) Fred Griffith, Flagler Beach’s city engineer since 2017, tendered what amounted to a resignation on Thursday, saying he was “announcing my impending retirement under duress.” Griffith was planning not to work anymore until his official retirement date of Jan. 22, using two personal days and vacation time between Dec. 14 and Jan. 22. Griffith, who was not infrequently at odds with residents and has drawn his share of emails to commissioners or the city manager, complaining about his style, had been reprimanded with his second “verbal warning” in 10 days (in writing) not long before he wrote his retirement memo to Rick McFadden, the acting city manager. The reprimand followed a Nov. 23 complaint by Commissioner Rick Belhumeur that Griffith had treated him with “contempt” as Be

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Advisers Recommend Checkered Shortlist of 7 for Flagler Beach City Manager, Out of Motley Field of 57 Applicants

The chair they all want to fill. (© FlaglerLive) “Look no further! I’m ready to be Flagler Beach’s next City Manager.” It’s not the sort of opening line elected officials expect to see in a cover letter when recruiting for their next executive, though it states more explicitly what every applicant by definition believes when applying. Kathy Laur, the town administrator in Tonka Bay, a lakeside community of 1,500 people in the outer suburbs of Minneapolis, is the author of that opening line. She’s been the administrator for barely a year, but she’s ready to leave. She was among the 57 candidates who applied to replace the late Larry Newsom, who died in August after giving the city five years of relative stability and solid executive leadership. Laur didn’t make the recommended cut to seven candidates, though nothing stops city commissioners from choosing their own candidates to short-list when they meet this evening and discuss the applicant pool for the first time.

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