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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. RATE HIKES COMING FOR SEWER, WATER, & MORE $20M borrowed from street fees assessed on growth used for other projects, never paid back A temporary wastewater line is in the middle of Union Road while the pipe that was put in place 20 feet below more than a half century ago are relined to extend its useful life for at least another 50 years. - photo by DENNIS WYATT
It is a City of Manteca financial disaster at least 13 years in the making.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Council looking at hiring new city manager tonight
Manteca’s elected leaders could be appointing a city manager tonight.
The agenda for a special meeting called for 6 p.m. has a closed session item listed as “Public Employee Appointment: City Manager.”
The council could be simply discussing appointing an interim city manager. But given how the item is listed on the agenda, it doesn’t legally preclude them from appointing an actual city manager tonight.
Current City Manager Miranda Lutzow tendered her resignation as of Feb. 26.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. LUTZOW IS RESIGNING AS MANTECA CITY MANAGER Pending departure Feb. 26 means city councils have gone through 3 city managers in 53 months City Manager Miranda Lutzow is shown in a COVID-19 information video form March 2020.
Miranda Lutzow is resigning as Manteca’s city manager effective Feb. 26.
The announcement following a special closed City Council session on Friday evening provided no official explanation beyond the council’s acceptance of her resignation. Given that she is resigning there will be no severance payments such as the city forked out with the last two city managers who departed ways with the city Elena Reyes and Tim Ogden. Between the two previous city managers, the city issued final combined checks in excess of $400,000.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. MANTECA MAY BRING BACK CLEAN-UP DAYS Part of what could be a multifaceted city plan to combat the ‘trashing’ of Manteca For more than six months in 2018 people kept illegally dumping furniture and garbage in the 600 block of North Lincoln Avenue in Manteca until the city stepped in.
Communitywide clean up days may be returning.
It is part of a game plan city staff is crafting for council consideration after elected leaders last month declared that beautifying Manteca by fighting illegal dumping, debris left by homeless, graffiti, blight, and other issues that are trashing the city was a top tier municipal priority.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. MANTECA FIRE COVERAGE NOW DEEMED AS ‘HEALTHY’ City may relocate aerial truck to Union Road The 100-foot aerial truck responded to a fire at Manteca Auto Plaza, now the U-Haul center, on South Main in 2011.
The city’s 100-foot aerial fire truck could be shifted to the Union Road location to be better positioned to respond to what will become Manteca’s greatest concentration of people within two months the Great Wolf Lodge.
The $180 million indoor waterpark resort has an extensive fire suppression system and meets all of the state’s latest safety requirements. The Great Wolf chain also has a solid safety and fire record.