City Council Fires Redondo Beach City Manager

Claiming they want to go in a "new direction," Redondo Beach City Council members gave City Manager the boot at Tuesday night's City Council meeting.

After emerging from closed session, the following statement was read:

Bill Workman has served the city of Redondo Beach as city manager since 2004. The city has benefited from his efforts and successful results, including being ranked number one for governance and financial management by the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. The City Council’s vision for the city is now taking it in a new direction, leading to a decision to transition the chief administrative officer helm of the City to another qualified individual. In order to do so, the council has unanimously, with Councilman Stephen Sammarco absent, elected to terminate Bill’s employment agreement without cause. The council thanks Bill for his years of service, and wishes him the very best as he pursues new private sector business opportunities. 

Workman had come under fire from various city employee groups, who claim he has not been honest in contract negotiations. In December, the council decided to discuss the grievances in closed session. 

The employees had earlier cast a vote of "no confidence" in Workman.