S pokane Mayor Nadine Woodward's first city administrator, hired away from the tiny Central Washington town of Ephrata, resigned after less than a year. But Woodward says the scale of experience of her new city administrator, Johnnie Perkins, is on an entirely different level. Perkins has been a school board candidate, a trash company lobbyist and, just last year, a deputy chief operating officer for the city of San Diego. In a city of 1.5 million — nearly seven times Spokane's population and 188 times Ephrata's — Perkins oversaw infrastructure, public works and utilities. Woodwa...