Friday, February 02, 2007

Interim city manager calls for outside investigator

Hernando Today - Online Edition: "The probe into the controversy at City Hall and the police department should be done by an outside investigator, interim city manager Stephen Baumgartner has decided.

Baumgartner sent a memo to the five city council members advising them of his decision and asking for $15,000 to pay for the probe into allegations of drug solicitation and an extramarital affair that are fueling an apparent feud between the police officials and the city’s human resources director.

“I feel (the investigation) would be perceived as fairer,” Baumgartner said in an interview Tuesday. “I think it would be better to have someone independent who doesn’t know all the people and can look at this objectively.”"

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