Genevieve Finn, Malibu Times / SMDP Staff Writer
Malibu City Manager Reva Feldman officially resigned from her post on Saturday, May 1 in a deal that will avoid the threat of a lawsuit.
Malibu City Attorney John Cotti said the city would launch a national search for Feldman’s replacement “very soon” and that Steve McClary, a former city manager in Ojai, has been named as Interim City Manager.
The terms of Feldman’s resignation were unanimously approved, 5-0, by Malibu city council. She received a payment of $150,000 on May 1, with the possibility of another on August 1, 2021, if she has not found a new job by then. Cotti said that the city’s insurer would contribute $150,000 of the total settlement amount.
WHY DOES THE MALIBU COUNCIL MAJORITY BOW TO REVA? .
WHY DOES THE MALIBU COUNCIL MAJORITY BOW TO REVA?
The farce Malibu City Council has become in the majority’s defense of despotic and devious City Manager Reva Feldman raises serious questions concerning the motives of Mikke Pierson, Karen Farrer and Paul Grisanti.
What indeed prompts the willful three to continually thwart a clarion call however shrill by concerned residents for transparency and accountability, accompanied by an independent review of City Hall by a qualified independent management firm, along with a citizen’s oversight task force?
As a skeptical journalist who also has been involved in some exacting public investigations, I have to speculate whether some ethical issues are raised in their relationships to the wily City Manager.
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A MUDDLED MALIBU CITY COUNCIL MEETS, AND ADJOURNS.
A MUDDLED MALIBU CITY COUNCIL MEETS, AND ADJOURNS
If evidence is needed why Malibu’s governance is floundering under the weight of vacuous leadership and misanthropic management, just witness a meeting of its City Council.
That was my studied conclusion after viewing nearly six tortured hours of mostly bloviating and befuddlement from both sides of the putative dais, in a Zoom format necessitated by the pandemic, of Monday night’s council meeting. Actually, it is not over yet, having been adjourned until Thursday, at 5 P.M.
I tuned in curious to see what reactions, if any, there would be in the wake of a pejorative demand letter written by a lawyer representing City Manager Reva Feldman, complaining at length of being harassed by Councilman Bruce Silverstein to the point she is considering resigning, but only for $375,000, the remaining value of her contract, and no investigation of her rocky tenure being questioned in the so
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The incongruity of City Manager Reva Feldman ‘s grousing demand letter her lawyer slapped on Malibu, charging what she calls harassment, is by any administrative measure basically reasoned requests that she do her job.
Peeling.