Campbell finance director to remain on job until successor is appointed

CAMPBELL — The city’s new mayor tried to fire the finance director and ordered him out of his office Monday, but by today, he had retracted the order.

George Krinos, who won November’s election over longtime mayor Jack Dill, told finance director Sherman Miles that he was terminated as of the end of the business day Monday. Today was Krinos’ first offical day as mayor.

Krinos said today he’d hand-delivered the letter.

“This letter is to inform you that your services are no longer needed,” the letter reads. “Please remove all of your personal effects and place any keys you have belonging to the city of Campbell in the custody of the dispatch officer in the police department.”

“According to the [city] charter, I have the ability to replace him,” Krinos said.

But after a meeting today with Law Director Mark Kolmacic, Miles and Miles’ lawyer Dennis Haines, he sent another letter telling Miles he can remain in the post until a successor is appointed.

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