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The Portsmouth City Council is close to choosing a firm that will help vet and select a new city manager. But the timeline for the selection process means the city could go a full year without a permanent city manager in place.
Former City Manager Tonya Chapman was fired last week during the City Council’s first meeting of the year by a new council supermajority that believed her termination was for sufficient cause. But Chapman says the reasons cited for her termination included “falsified and/or embellished information."