During his first evaluation, commissioners mentioned they couldn t speak to Peters progress in the fiscal category since he hadn t yet worked on the annual budgeting process since being hired.
Last month, Peters announced his intent to resign, citing interference from Commissioners Dana McCool and David Sosa. At a June 7 meeting, he asserted that McCool and Sosa were impacting his ability to tackle his daily responsibilities because of the time he was taking to investigate issues the commissioners said their residents had.
Both Sosa and McCool during the June 7 meeting addressed the interference and expressed not wanting to see Peters leave.
In February the commission voted 5-2 to hire John O Grady, Mount Dora s former police chief and public safety director, for a contracted part-time position in Deltona s code enforcement department.
John Peters III, acting city manager, said O Grady has the right set of skills for the job, the contract for which expires Oct. 1. There s a lot of good things going on, but it could probably be better, O Grady said by phone Wednesday. We just need to hear from the community on how best to serve them through code enforcement services.
Deltona s biggest issue? Illegal parking
O Grady said the biggest issue citywide is illegal parking.