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After a heated three-hour session last night, the Cambridge City Council voted six to three against reconsidering the ouster of City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29. The Council took no action on a successor...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 introduced a resolution calling for the removal of DeGuglielmo. Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., who voted two years ago to hire DeGuglielmo, immediately exercised his "charter right," deferring any consideration of the motion to the next council meeting. A simple majority of the council would be needed to remove the manager...
Hayes and Alfred E. Vellucci (the just-elected vice-mayor) then clashed over an alleged bargain made at a caucus which they and the other three "independent" councillors attended prior to the election of Sullivan as mayor. Vellucci claimed that DeGuglielmo, speaking through Hayes, had agreed not to ask for public hearings on the dismissal motion. In return, none of the independents opposing the manager would call for a special meeting to speed his possible removal...
Hayes denied that any agreement had been made to forego hearings and said it would have been "presumptuous" of him to speak for DeGuglielmo, since he had no contact with the manager during the caucus. In reply, Vellucci roared, "You left that room many times and I don't know where you went...
...interview last night, DeGuglielmo said he would not ask for hearings unless "a charge of malfeasance" was made against him. He said he didn't believe in a repetition of the circus" surrounding the removal of City Manager John J. Curry '19 two years ago. "If he (Crane) has the votes, he has the votes," DeGuglielmo said...