Post by Logan on Jun 15, 2016 15:37:42 GMT -6
Littleton’s city manager, Michael Penny, was terminated Tuesday evening during a tense council meeting that revealed sharp divisions among the city’s elected leaders.
The four council members who voted to fire Penny, who has been Littleton’s city manager since October 2011, said they had lost faith and trust in the man.
The two council members who voted against Penny’s dismissal, Debbie Brinkman and Bill Hopping, were vociferous in their condemnation of the rest of the council for putting termination on the table.
“I think this is a drastic mistake,” Brinkman said, visibly angry.
Mayor Bruce Beckman specifically berated Penny for the way he handled a television news investigation of the city’s police department. He said Penny hadn’t been forthcoming about a Denver7 investigation into the Littleton police force and as a result had been “ambushed” by an investigative reporter as part of the station’s probe.
Read more: www.denverpost.com/2016/06/15/littleton-city-manager-fired-michael-penny/
The four council members who voted to fire Penny, who has been Littleton’s city manager since October 2011, said they had lost faith and trust in the man.
The two council members who voted against Penny’s dismissal, Debbie Brinkman and Bill Hopping, were vociferous in their condemnation of the rest of the council for putting termination on the table.
“I think this is a drastic mistake,” Brinkman said, visibly angry.
Mayor Bruce Beckman specifically berated Penny for the way he handled a television news investigation of the city’s police department. He said Penny hadn’t been forthcoming about a Denver7 investigation into the Littleton police force and as a result had been “ambushed” by an investigative reporter as part of the station’s probe.
Read more: www.denverpost.com/2016/06/15/littleton-city-manager-fired-michael-penny/