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Show City Manager Resigns for Colorado Post (..-'. Mr ! mil 1 Thomas W. Thorsen, city manager man-ager in Cedar City for the past two and a half years, has submitted sub-mitted his resignation from that position and will accept a similar position in Sterling, Colo, beginning begin-ning Aug. 1. Mr. Thorsen has served as city manager under the administration administra-tion of Mayor L. V. Broadbent, since Feb. 1951. Mr. Thorsen was selected for the Sterling position from 13 applicants ap-plicants from all parts of the country. Following an interview of the 13 applicants recently Mayor Otto Unfug of Sterling visited Cedar City on Thursday, July 2, to check on the developments develop-ments made in Cedar City under Mr. Thorsen's management. He reported back to the council and the position was officially offered of-fered to Mr. Thorsen by telephone tele-phone Monday, July 6. Under his new contract Mr. Thorsen will receive a yearly salary of $6,500 plus a $900 expense ex-pense fund. At Cedar City he is drawing $6,000 and Is required to pay his own automobile expense ex-pense in conducting the affairs of the city. Sterling is a city of 12,000 population pop-ulation and has a $12,000,000 assessed as-sessed valuation. It is governed under a non-partisan home rule charter. Commenting on his acceptance ac-ceptance of the new position the city manager stated that he had enjoyed his work and association in Cedar City very much, and was reluctant to leave for a new location. The determining factor in making his decision to leave, he said, was not the increase in salary,' but rather the fact that at Sterling he would not be faced with the political pressure prevalent prev-alent in a city governed under the two-party system, as Cedar City is. He pointed out that GOCo of the cities of Colorado are under un-der the city manager form of government, and consequently the plan is more readily accepted accept-ed by the people of that state than is the case in Utah. Mr Thorsen, before coming to Cedar City to accept the appointment appoint-ment as city manager, was teaching teach-ing economics, political science and public administration at the University of Utah. At a special meeting of the City (Council held Tuesday eve-ningy eve-ningy the resignation of the city manager was accepted, and Mayor L. V. Broadbent was authorized auth-orized to proceed immediately to employ a successor to the retiring re-tiring manager. The vote was not unanimous it is understood, but Instead two councilmen voted vot-ed not to employ a new manapcr under the present ordinance, but three councilmen voted in favor of filling the vacancy as soon as possible. |
