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...vote to appoint Sullivan was not unanimous. Like his predecessor, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, who served as manager from January, 1966, until Janury, 1968, Sullivan holds only a 5 to 4 majority on the council. DeGuglielmo was fired by the council last January when he lost two of his five votes in last November's elections...
...three former DeGuglielmo supporters still on the council--Bernard Goldberg, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Cornelia B. Wheeler--voted to hire Sullivan. They were joined by Thomas H. D. Mahoney, and Barbara Ackermann, both of whom had voted to fire DeGuglielmo, saying at the time that he lacked the professional expertise needed for the manager...
After the firing of DeGuglielmo, the Council said it hoped to appoint a new manager within 90 days, by the middle of May. The Council was deadlocked on the manager issue for nearly twice that period, however, until the new coalition, breaking across old pro- and anti-DeGuglielmo lines, came together to hire Sullivan. Public Works Commissioner Ralph J. Dunphy, who served as Acting City Manager for the interim, has returned to his former post...
...Council has also voted to pay Sullivan an annual salary of $25,000, as compared with $20,000 that DeGuglielmo received...
Previous city managers had not attended the meetings, and it is said that one city manager of 20 years ago "ran as soon as he saw a meeting beginning--and you never could find him." DeGuglielmo usually remained in his downstairs office, coming upstairs to the council chambers only if called before the body...