Interim City Manager Jesús Garza sends several executives packing, brings on a host of City Hall veterans.
The news is breaking as I write this on Wednesday of some big changes on the city executive team. Interim City Manager Jesús Garza, brought on board two weeks ago by Mayor Kirk Watson, announced that Assistant City Manager Rey Arellano – who oversaw public safety and directly supervised police Chief Joe Chacon – is taking his retirement, and that Jacquelyn Yaft, the CEO of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, has tendered her resignation.
Both these dudes are, like Garza, well into their retirement years. Mills was one of the more dependable and respectable topsiders in an APD that had a lot of problems in its leadership culture. Smith rose through the ranks to become one of Garza's first ACMs, before Watson was elected in 1997. He took over the airport when it was a huge construction project and stayed to be its first director, not retiring until 2019.
As for Yaft, there have been enough weird struggles at AUS during her four-year tenure, which overlapped with COVID, for any one of them to emerge as an unpardonable mistake and not just another anecdote from the wacky world of aviation.
What is more intriguing is what this announcement of immediate reinforcements says about elements of the city's workplace culture, and its performance as an enterprise, that Garza must find abominable. It reinforces the fact that Cronk got fired not just because he did politically stupid things, but also for being a bad manager who was out of touch with a wide range of city departments and stakeholders, much like his predecessor Marc Ott.
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