Hutchinson accepts city manager, assistant city attorney resignations; council meets in special session Monday
The city's announcement gives no reason for either departure and no effective dates.
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Sign up freeHutchinson has formally accepted the resignations of City Manager Enrico Villegas and Assistant City Attorney Cody Smith, and the City Council will meet in special session Monday, Sept. 14.
The two said Sept. 9 that they were leaving, and the council asked them to put it in writing. Citizen Journal's earlier coverage identified Smith as assistant city attorney, while the city's statement calls him city attorney.
The city said operations and services will continue without interruption, and that the council is working to ensure continuity of leadership. An announcement on next steps is expected soon, though the city gave no date for that announcement.
The meeting is set for 4 p.m. at City Hall. The city's notice says the agenda includes a motion to recess into executive session to discuss personnel matters of non-elected personnel under K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(1), the Kansas Open Meetings Act exception that allows a governing body to close part of a meeting to discuss individual employees.
The notice does not say what else is on the agenda or whether the council will take any action in open session afterward.
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