Ciaravino
NEWBURGH – Mayor Judy Kennedy would like to end the search for
a new Newburgh city manager.
The city council late last year voted to conduct a search as current Manager Michael Ciaravino’s contract expires in May.
The vote to conduct the search included two people who are no longer on the council and who openly said they wanted the current manager out. Two new members were elected last fall.
Kennedy noted that the five votes that would be needed to get rid of Ciaravino are not there.
“The bottom line is nobody has the five votes needed to do anything so the status quo is the status quo,” the mayor told MidHudsonNews.com. “They can search all day long, they can search for the next two years if they want to search, but until they have some votes to hire somebody, we are where we are.”
Unless a super-majority of council votes is there, Ciaravino will continue on a month-by-month basis after his contract expires.
