Irving council members may have improperly picked finalist in closed meeting

2014-01-22T15:24:28-06:00

By Avi Selk The Dallas Morning News Originally published Jan. 21, 2014 Irving City Council members may have broken transparency rules when, in closed-door talks, they told staffers to start negotiating with Steve Sarkozy to become the next city manager. The council was scheduled to interview three finalists for the job on Friday. After the interviews, according to people in the room, members told the staff to begin pursuing a contract for Sarkozy, the former city manager of Bellevue, Wash. By doing so, the council essentially chose a lone finalist without public notice, according to a legal expert and two council [...]