Friday, September 30, 2022

Former City Staffers Touch Council Agenda


San Angelo City Council faces seven consent agenda items and one on its regular agenda.   Two former city staffers touch the upcoming agenda.

Former staff engineer Blake Wilde served as the land surveyor for Rimrick Development Co LLC (Item b on the consent agenda).  Rimrock seeks to donate land from its development to the city for stormwater management purposes.  Blake was fired from city employment but got work on the Hickory pipeline to the concern of some council members.

Former Assistant City Manager Elizabeth Grindstaff is Account Director for Central and West Texas for engineering firm Freese and Nichols.  Council will entertain spending almost $1.1 million for Freese and Nichols to undertake phase 2 of the Lead and Copper Rule Revision Compliance Program.  Grindstaff was a key player in the unauthorized purchase of $100,000 of furniture for the Water Department.

San Angelo's engineering drought created much work for firms like Freese and Nichols.  Council will likely have a short meeting next Tuesday.  It might be a bit longer if they asked why the city has been unable to fill the City Engineer position for nearly two years. 

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