City Hall Installs Revolving Door

A city employee, upset that his office is undergoing a review, abruptly resigns. The city, it is said, is left in the lurch. In an effort to maintain services, the city council looks for a short-term replacement. Should they bring back the very person who caused the crisis?

If you answered “yes,” read no further. Instead, proceed straight to a political party boss to put your name in for public office because you are thinking along the same lines as the powers that be in Geneva.

The City Council agenda (available here) shows that Councilor D’Amico is offering a resolution to re-hire Clark Cannon-- the same Clark Cannon who just resigned as City Attorney-- as the City’s interim legal counsel.

He would serve until the review of his former office is completed and a permanent arrangement for City legal services is in place. The kicker is, how much will it cost the City to re-hire Cannon? The $70 per hour he was previously said to be receiving, or the $125 per hour he will be receiving from the IDA (as reported in the newspaper)?

We had just posted on the need for the public to go easy on Cannon. (You can read that post here). It had been said that his early departure would cost the city thousands of dollars in additional legal expense, and we didn’t think that was necessarily true. Never in our wildest imaginings did it occur to us that any ‘additional expense’ would actually go-- back to the future-- to Cannon himself!