The Modesto City Council and Chamber want to Hire This Man for City Manager?
By Emerson Drake 
When Modesto City Councilman Bill Zoslocki is pushing something he saves Modesto Chamber of Commerce lobbyist Cecil Russell from having to support it. Here is a story about Jim Holgersson, the man they (the Council and Chamber) want to hire as interim city manager. Public record requests are a wonderful thing.
Ousted Arlington city manager’s scathing review, perks detailed in public records: Former Arlington City Manager Jim Holgersson resigned in September amidst a scathing review from his peers, which was made public under the state’s open records act by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram over the weekend.
The review, commissioned by the city of an outside firm, pointedly noted that “there are major gaps between the way Jim Holgersson perceives himself versus the way his employees and internal customers” do.Holgersson’s
six-year tenure was ended by that evaluation, which notes that his response to the findings was “professional but defensive.”
Holgersson took the review to heart;
he resigned and took the
remaining eight months of his $214,152 salary on his couch.In a
story by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, city council member Mel LeBlanc said ”
the consultant thought he was irredeemable. The questions we had as a council were, ‘Could he be coached, could he be managed by us back into a leadership capacity?’ All answers came back, ‘No, this has gone too far.
It was valid, empirical evidence that we had a leadership problem.”
A press release by the city at the time of Holgersson’s hiring claims his starting salary would be $190,000 but said nothing of pension provisions, car or phone allowances and the other non-salary perks of a public executive’s pay package.
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Contact Steve Miller at 832-303-9420 or stevemiller@texaswatchdog.org.
And yet they want to hire this man. The question we have is WHY? It goes to show just how low the City Council and Chamber of Commerce have stooped to. It’s time to ask if the Council is being serious or do they think it’s still April 1st.?
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