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Paso Robles City Manager back after $2.25 million claim denied

November 19, 2024

By KAREN VELIE

Following two separate attempts over four months to get a financial settlement from the city, Paso Robles City Manager Ty Lewis plans to return to work on Wednesday.

During the first months of 2024, Lewis battled with a group of residents working to end the paid parking program in the downtown, a program that Lewis championed. Councilman Chris Bausch was a staunch opponent of the paid parking program.

Lewis and Bausch were regularly at odds during council meetings. In May, Lewis was out on stress leave while seeking a payout. Instead of receiving a settlement, he returned to work several weeks later.

In August, Lewis again went on medical leave while filing a claim against the city seeking $2,275,000 for loss of employment. He alleged he could not work because of “extreme hypertension” brought on by harassment and a hostile working environment.

The city denied Lewis’ claim on Sept. 26. He then began pushing his allegations on social media and through news sources.

Lewis recently told the Tribune his doctors have cleared him to work, and that is why he is now returning to his position with the city.

 


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This game would not work anywhere else. Maybe wine tasting has be become a fringe benefit or gazing at a field of lights? Who knows, but this is also at town that claims to have been a pueblo and uses ratepayers’ money to litigate their attempt to squelch private property water rights. I’m waiting for 60 minutes to do a story.


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Did we ever establish whether it was hypertension or hypotension? He was probably cleared by his lawyers who didn’t think they could win in court and Paso wasn’t biting on a settlement. If Chris Bausch looks at him sideways or criticizes him in any way, more medical leave and back to court.


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No lawsuit yet per the search I just did on re:Search.CA. The online search is free. You do have to enter your name, address xnd phone number to activate, but you don’t have to go to the cheesy rolling kiosk at the SLO Superior courthouse (since 1/4/24). If Lewis wanted to make point he would file a claim for $1with the city, yet he’s seeking millions so he won’t need to ever work again. His Tribune quote “Lewis said his intention of filing the claim was “to make the community aware of the challenges that were going on, which I think have become fully apparent.’” That doesn’t jive with the money requested. Appears like he’s too cheap to pay a lawyer a contingency fee to file a civil suit/complaint against CCN too without getting confirmation on the claim against the city first. So, at best he’s only paid a retainer or consulted Self-Help legal.


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Lewis is a ladder climber; a graduate of the Jim App School of Power, Control and Corruption.


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Jim App retired properly. Ty Lewis is not.


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This guy Lewis sounds like a con- man and a hustler looking for free ride.


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Boy would this be someone I would want to figure out how to legally let go!


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Did Ty Lewis ever have to take leave as a police officer due to stress? I can’t imagine a defiant city council member even compares to some the people he had to deal with on a day to day basis as a cop. Not going to end well having a city manager who tried suing for a payout that would have come from tax payers back at being the city manager.


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Awkward at best. Even worse for the person who’s been doing his job during all these absences. Or, maybe no one was doing his job during the absences, and it wasn’t even noticed.


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This is nothing but a (lining your pocket) retirement game, and it’s all on our tax paying backs. Kick him back to Bakersfield where he belongs, and take Chris Williams with you!


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