Seal Beach has a new acting city manager. City Attorney Quinn Barrow announced that Jill Ingram had been appointed during a closed session of the City Council during the agency’s Monday, Feb. 28 meeting.
This was not exactly news to the public.
Local activist Marc Loopesko publicly congratulated Ingram on her new position a few minutes earlier during the public comment portion of the meeting.
Ingram told the Sun that Interim City Manager Pat Importuna had resigned on or about Feb. 21.
It was Ingram’s second promotion in two weeks.
Ingram was Seal Beach’s assistant to the city manager until the City Council decided to change her position to assistant city manager on Monday, Feb. 14.
Ingram’s promotion came with a pay raise. A staff report written by then-City Manager Importuna argued that Ingram had been functioning as a department head since October 2008. The report also said Ingram serves as acting city manager when the city manager is out of town. Ingram told the Sun that the council made her acting city manager to provide the city with continuity.
The departing Importuna had little to say at the Feb. 28 meeting.
“Adios,” he said. Importuna compared himself to the tide, coming into the beach and going out again.
