Karen Pearsall said it LOUD AND CLEAR! Dennis is writing crap that is trying to confuse everyone. One day he prints the fact that the city council has allowed the city manager Steve Pinkerton (image to the left) that he is in violation of the law, an ordinance the city passed in order for you to work in this city as the manger, you have to live within the city limits. It was big news. "“Council violated Manteca law.”"And, shame on the council for not following up on this. And, he gets comments from the council about this.
Then, Dennis gets emails from several managers and past managers from around the country and State that read the story and offered their perspective on it by showing him the California Constitution “makes it illegal for local jurisdictions to make a requirement that any local government employee...reside within the boundaries of the agency or district.” saying this city requirement is illegal, as if he knew this and then prints it as if it's nothing. What he should have done was given an extraction of his previous editorial story and apologized to the community for his stupidity. I say stupid now because he won't do it and he has already done the damage.
I think it was a desperation of finding something to write about and to keep the level of newspapers selling and online traffic. It appeared that some sort of media manipulation was used to start something.
Then, Dennis gets emails from several managers and past managers from around the country and State that read the story and offered their perspective on it by showing him the California Constitution “makes it illegal for local jurisdictions to make a requirement that any local government employee...reside within the boundaries of the agency or district.” saying this city requirement is illegal, as if he knew this and then prints it as if it's nothing. What he should have done was given an extraction of his previous editorial story and apologized to the community for his stupidity. I say stupid now because he won't do it and he has already done the damage.
I think it was a desperation of finding something to write about and to keep the level of newspapers selling and online traffic. It appeared that some sort of media manipulation was used to start something.
THE LAW
- CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 11 LOCAL GOVERNMENT: SEC. 10. (b) A city or county, including any chartered city or chartered county, or public district, may not require that its employees be residents of such city, county, or district; except that such employees may be required to reside within a reasonable and specific distance of their place of employment or other designated location.
- (CALIFORNIA) GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 50083: No local agency or district shall require that its employees be residents of such local agency or district.
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