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Pekin's city council remains divided over apparent personal differences, evidenced by a recent split vote on naming police chief John Dossey as the full-time city manager. In her latest quarterly interview with WCBU, Mayor Mary Burress discusses her desire to move the city forward.
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John Dossey will drop the "interim" from his city manager title after a divided Pekin City Council voted to hire him permanently for the job.
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Whoever is chosen will have the task of filling vacant positions on the city staff that includes a finance director, an economic development director and a human resources director.
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The city manager position is one of three key leadership roles Pekin still needs to fill, and clear factions have developed among city council members.
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The Pekin City Council has removed interim city manager Bruce Marston from that position, but the reasons why aren't immediately clear.
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An upheaval in leadership gripped the City of Pekin on Monday night as City Manager Mark Rothert was fired by a split vote of the City Council.
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The agenda for Monday’s regular meeting shows the Pekin City Council will enter an executive session before considering resolutions to terminate a city employee and assign an “interim city manager.”
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The City of Pekin has a new city manager. The Pekin City Council unanimously approved Anthony “Tony” Carson for the position in a special meeting. Pekin…
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The City of Pekin has a new interim city manager. Sarah Newcomb is the city’s director of human resources. But starting Tuesday she’s wrapping city…