BID TO MAKE MANTECA GREENER PUSHED ASIDE
A month after the council instructed staff to prepare a report on instituting such a ban, then-City Manager Tim Ogden was out on administrative leave. The start of what ended up being almost a 100 percent in department head change — including the community development department charged with researching the ban and the public works department whose operations would benefit from it — started weeks after that. Just as things started to settle down, the pandemic emergency started in mid-March. “It got pushed aside and then delayed by COVID-19,” noted Assistant City Manager Lisa Blackm...
Source: mantecabulletin.com