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CITY COUNCILS
CARLSBAD
The Carlsbad City Council will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday for final approval of its hotel employee recall rights ordinance. Reports will be presented on the city’s 2019-20 annual financial audit results and on upcoming municipal service reviews by the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) of the city of Carlsbad and Carlsbad Municipal Water District.
Former Manhattan Beach fire chief Daryn Drum. Photo courtesy City of Manhattan Beach
Former Manhattan Beach Fire Department Chief Daryn Drum is appealing the city’s termination of his contract over his alleged use of insensitive language shortly after Black Lives Matters protests erupted nationally early last summer. The first appeal hearing, scheduled for December 3, was postponed when attorneys representing the city declined an Easy Reader request to observe the Zoom hearing.
“This is an important issue,” said Dan Shinoff, the attorney representing Drum. “This is about freedom of the press and the public’s right to know what is going on. We are talking about tax dollars here.”