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Ott makes positions official
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 by Elizabeth Pagano
This week, City Manager Marc Ott announced that he had made three executive appointments. In a memo addressed to the mayor and City Council, Ott announced that he had appointed Anne Morgan as city attorney, Rodney Gonzales as director of the Development Services Department and Joe Pantalion as the director of the Watershed Protection Department. All three had been serving in those positions prior to their appointment. Morgan has served as the interim city attorney since January of this year, and has been with the city since 2004. Gonzales has been with the city since 2006, and has been serving as the interim director of the Development Services Department since its creation in March. And Pantalion has been working as the acting director of the city’s Watershed Protection Department since September. He previously served as the deputy director of the department and as the director of the Watershed Protection and Development Review Department for a three-year stint.
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