Following months of public feuding, Lompoc City Council members unanimously agreed in closed session on Oct. 3 that they had confidence in their city manager, Patrick Wiemiller.
Mayor Bob Lingl made the announcement in open session at that night’s City Council meeting.
“We had a very good discussion, some back and forth, and at the end we had a unanimous vote of confidence on the five us for our city manager,” he said. “So, moving forward … .”
The move comes after a year characterized by budget battles, where talks grew so divisive at times, two councilmembers—Jim Mosby and Victor Vega—called for personnel review of Wiemiller on multiple occasions.
This article appears in Oct 12-19, 2017.