The Eureka City Council is scheduled to meet in closed session May 27 to discuss the city manager position. The 3 p.m. meeting comes one week after the council voted 4-0, with Councilmember Heidi Messner absent, to accept the resignation of Dean Lotter, who served in the position for just four months. Lotter was placed […]
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City Manager Lotter on Admin Leave, City Clerk Powell Takes Reins of City
The city of Eureka announced today that recently selected City Manager Dean Lotter has been placed on administrative leave and City Clerk Pam Powell is in charge for the time being. The move comes four months into Lotter’s tenure after the city conducted an extensive search to replace Greg Sparks, who retired late last year. […]
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Eureka City Council Set to Discuss Food Trucks, Personal Property
The Eureka City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to allow food trucks or “mobile vendors” to operate in specifically zoned sections of the city, potentially pass a storage of personal property ordinance and (probably) grant two more contracts to the Mercer Fraser Co. The mobile vendors ordinance, which was discussed at length July 5, […]
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Squires Tenants File $25K Claims Against City
Seven former tenants of Floyd and Betty Squire’s Blue Heron Lodge have filed nearly identical claims for damages against the city of Eureka, arguing the city unlawfully evicted them, violated their civil rights and intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon them when the city moved to condemn the lodge earlier this month. Each of the claims […]
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UPDATED: Challenger Looms in Shadows of Eureka Council Race
The City of Eureka has determined that an unnamed would-be challenger to 1st Ward Councilwoman Marian Brady has failed to qualify for the ballot. In a press release, the city cited section 301 of the city charter as the reason the would-be candidate did not qualify. That section reads: “No person shall be eligible for […]
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Eureka Denies Release of Controversial Memo
After conferring with an outside attorney, the city of Eureka has denied a Journal request seeking the release of a controversial memo penned by former City Manager Bill Panos on the day he left his employment with the city. The Oct. 4 memo — or, more specifically, the controversy surrounding it — was thrust into […]