'CITY MANAGERS'

Claremont has had over the years a number of 'city managers' who had come and gone, leaving a lot of things up in the air. Most,if not all of them, have come here merely to pad their resumes and to gain experience in this field of management, usually with little or no real experience and certainly no real ties to Claremont by any stretch of the imagination, except for their pay checks. Aside from this, many of them had 'personal' problems and other 'eccentricities' that sometimes led to their departure, no doubt. You will not, of course, see much of this in the newspaper article that appeared with mention of any of them during their 'reign'. Probably many will not think this a fair or accurate assessment of the many managers whose names escape me at the moment and really do not need any publicity here,especially since they are not on the present scene.