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Ignacio town trustees fire their town manager, San Miguel

San Miguel

Ignacio trustees have fired Town Manager Lee San Miguel.

They took action at a special meeting April 22, then named Police Chief Kirk Phillips as acting town manager. Phillips has served in that position before.

The April 22 meeting was a follow-up to the regular April 15 meeting, when the agenda included an executive session to discuss the town manager’s evaluation, with possible action to follow.

Mayor Stella Cox said that after the executive session, “The board decided to release him without cause.”

Trustees will discuss the town manager position at their regular meeting Wednesday.

San Miguel started with the town in November 2013 after the resignation of Mike Lee. His relationship with town trustees has seemed on various occasions to be tenuous.

Trustees approved a $6,000 pay raise for him in February 2014 to cover his duties as town planner.

On July 2, 2014, trustees created a list of performance improvements that they wanted from San Miguel. They also decided they wanted to hire a town planner.

They voted not to approve a $4,000 pay raise for San Miguel to continue planning duties, to decrease his pay by $6,000 once a planner was hired and to advertise the planner position as soon as possible. Also that night, Trustee Tom Atencio raised issues about the safety of some work on town gas lines.



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