Maywood's mysterious city manager, update

Angela Spaccia has resigned as the interim city manager for Maywood, the cash-strapped city that she helped to convince to turn over its administrative services to the neighboring city of Bell - a troubled city where, until a couple weeks ago, Spaccia had served as deputy city manager and was paid, along with other top administrators, an exorbitant salary.

Spaccia's sudden departure leaves Maywood with a skeleton staff in City Hall and without a city administrator to oversee it. But it also spares the Maywood City Council of the embarrassment of having to explain why she was continuing to serve as interim city manager after being fired from the city providing the services she was supposed to oversee.

From the Los Angeles Times:

In an e-mail to City Council members, Spaccia said she was resigning out of concern that the growing media attention would detract from Maywood's ability to move forward with the financial and structural reforms needed, said city spokeswoman Magdalena Prado.

Her departure from Maywood, though, leaves the city without a leader.

She had been serving as Maywood's top executive since February. For the first three months, she worked without any pay from Maywood as part of a mutual-aid agreement with the city of Bell. Beginning in May, Maywood began paying the city of Bell $10,000 a month for her services. That was part of a three-month contract that would have ended Aug. 12.

Spaccia oversaw Maywood's dramatic decision last month to lay off virtually every city employee and disband its Police Department. All day-to-day municipal operations were outsourced to Bell for $50,833 a month. Prado said that agreement would not be affected by Spaccia's departure.

Maywood's mysterious city manager

As Assistant City Manager in the city of Bell, Angela Spaccia made $376,000 a year. She also serves as interim city manager for the neighboring city of Maywood and was integral in the deal last month that turned over city administrative services to Bell after Maywood collapsed under the weight of its excessive financial obligations.

Last week, Spaccia was forced to resign her post in Bell, along with the city manager and police chief, over public outrage at the insanely high salaries the three administrators were pulling down.

Spaccia, however, continues to work as interim city manager for Maywood. In fact, the Maywood City Council seems quite pleased with her, according to the city spokeswoman. And because Spaccia's resignation from Bell does not become effective until September, she is expected to continue on as Maywood interim manager. But who will be paying her salary?

Also, is the Maywood City Council concerned at all the top administrators of the town that's taken over Maywood's services were forced out amid scandal?

Apparently not. The Maywood City Council is scheduled to have a meeting on Monday when these subjects could come up. The city agenda I saw online mentions nothing about her job, however.