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Morro Bay plans to hire new city manager

December 10, 2025

John Craig

By KAREN VELIE

The Morro Bay City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a contract to hire John Craig as city manager. The council is scheduled to finalize its selection on Jan. 13.

In June, the council voted to terminate then Morro Bay City Manager Yvonne Kimball. She served as city manger for less than two years.

Craig has over 25 years government administration experience. Craig served as city manager of Barre, Vermont; manager of Talbot County, Maryland; deputy city manager of Rico Rancho, New Mexico; assistant administrator of Mono County, California; and director of general services for the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

“I am honored to join Morro Bay and grateful for the trust the city council and community have place in me,” Craig said. “My goal is to listen first, learn quickly, and work together to support the council’s goals and maintain the high-quality services that reflect Morro Bay’s values.”

 


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Reads like the prerequisite is to be disposable. Who would have thought that government would use every dirtbag trick in the book for a revenue priority.


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Anybody want to bet, that this guy who has served in multiple very blue cities, pushes for the battery storage and/or the offshore windmill support base?


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Anybody do any background checks, this guy has been to too many places in his career, five different positions in 25 years, that doesn’t sit to well.


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Total compensation offered to this new hire and compared to that of the previous city manager?


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It will be ridiculous to us non-public sector humans. Guaranteed.


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“Maintain the high quality services that reflect Morro Bays values” …what does that even mean? What services are high quality around here? The schools are terrible, the roads are trashed, the garbage and water svc is expensive, etc etc. Is this guy just another corporation pleaser or what?

Forget the council; how about aiming to serve the people of MB? Too much to ask probably :/


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Easy to say that “schools are terrible” but harder to offer ways they can be improved. I have plenty of ideas but since you brought it up I’ll defer to you for what you might do. Saying “schools are terrible” is nothing new and could have been stated with equal merit 20-30 years ago.


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Get rid of the teachers union. Instant improvement.


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I was actually referring to the quality of the infrastructure lol. The ideologies being taught is a debatable topic.


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Our schools are terrible because of anchor babies and illegals who don’t bother to learn English, the solution is obviously deportations


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The City Manager serves at the pleasure of the council, and the council reports to the people (ideally). The schools are not under the city’s purview except for emergency services.

The expensive cost of living and general lack of services and maintenance are the result of years of leftist leadership…or shall I say malfeasance. Too much time and money wasted on flags and pronouns.


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And when the opportunity to have new business and revenue for the city the residents did everything they could to stop it. Whatever you think is wrong the citizens think is perfect.


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Youre blaming the cost of living on flags and pronouns? Wow! Theyve really got the wool pulled over your eyes. Pretty sure the pro corporation bs is why were all stuck, gay or straight, paying high prices. Just recently the first time innhistory the majority of si gle family homes were bought up by, corporrationd!!! Guess who contributed the most to political ads etc; corporations!!! Guess who has the most to gain and is notorious for focusing on profits alone? C o r p o r a t i o n s. Big money is the problem, not gay people, immigrants, women, or anything else. Open your eyes!


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Are corporations buying 50% of new homes in SLO county? Do you think cost of living has acting to do with the massive number of illegals in the county?


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CEOs are making not five, not ten or even one hundred, but multiple hundreds(600x) times what their lowest employees are earning. Do you think your boss is worth that much more than you?


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