Former Eureka City Manager Bill Panos just got a promotion and is now the interim director of the Wyoming Department of Transportation.
Panos, who brought high hopes to a city reeling from internal strife, left Eureka in 2013 after just 9 months on the job, taking a position in the Wyoming School Facilities Department. In his wake, he left a memo critical of city department heads, including counsel Cyndy Day-Wilson. That memo became the subject of controversy when it leaked to city employees. Former Councilman Lance Madsen signed an affidavit on his death bed alleging that Day-Wilson leaked the memo and lied to him about it.
Panos declined to comment on his “reorganization memo,” and the city has never released the letter.
This article appears in ‘System Failure’.
Incompetent, corrupt, or just afraid, public officials successfully play musical chairs around the nation by keeping their mouths shut.