By Lorie Tinfow Special to the Herald “Nothing is constant but change,” and that has certainly been true for Benicia in 2017. My tenure began in April and I followed two interim managers who held down the fort after my predecessor left in 2016. There have been other staffing changes as well throughout the organization […]
City launches new weekly email newsletter
As part of its ongoing efforts to increase community awareness of local issues, the city of Benicia has implemented its own weekly online newsletter. The inaugural edition of “City of Benicia This Week” was released on Sunday. Six items are briefly highlighted in the first e-blast. These include the hiring of Cindy Mosser as the […]
Council presents employee awards, hears financial reports Tuesday
The Benicia City Council presented employee recognition awards at its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday before commencing with other business, including the formal appointment of new City Manager Lorie Tinfow, who will begin serving the city on April 17. Awards were presented to: Employee of the Year – Danilo Stanovich, Public Works; Rookie of the Year […]
City Council to appoint commission members, city manager tonight
The Benicia City Council will consider approval of six members to boards and commissions and the appointment of Lorie Tinfow to city manager, among other items, at the city council meeting tonight, Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. Additional agenda items include a second reading and adoption of an ordinance to establish speed limits on […]
Outgoing interim city manager reflects on tenure, provides suggestions in final staff report
Steve Salomon, whose tenure as Benicia’s interim city manager ends today, outlined the city’s accomplishments in the last seven months and provided future suggestions for the city in a final staff report that went undelivered at the Feb. 7 City Council meeting due to time constraints. However, the item has been scheduled for Tuesday’s council […]
Opinion: Is Benicia’s Finance Committee still relevant?
By Lawrence Grossman, Dennis Lowry and Lee Wines THE PRESENTATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL BY THE NEW CHAIR of the Finance Committee on April 8 may have unofficially marked the return of the committee to its previous and practically irrelevant status characterized by city staff’s dominance of its activities. The new chair, Michael Clark, is […]