Updated: Walters will accept a negotiated exit

UPDATED: Reportedly Paul Walters is going to negotiate an exit from Santa Ana’s City Hall and won’t be returning to the SAPD.  I am told that he cares too much about the rich history of the SAPD and is afraid that if he returns to there the Council will undermine him and hurt the department.   Best of luck to Walters, who deserved better than this, after 42 years of service to the people of Santa Ana.

“The Santa Ana City Council was scheduled to meet Thursday afternoon to discuss the terms of its separation from City Manager Paul Walters, which could include a request for a public hearing on behalf of the fired administrator,” according to the L.A. Times.

I have it on good authority that, according to an anon source at City Hall, Walters will not in fact request a public hearing.  He does not want to see his family dragged through the mud by the insane City Council members.

He is also said to have scoffed at the suggestion that the Council will be able to dig up any dirt on Walters – a highly respected public administrator.

Walters’ contract stipulated that he must be allowed to return to the SAPD as Police Chief if he is let go as City Manager.  His lawyer, Wendell Phillips, told the L.A. Times that Walters may also end up negotiating an exit settlement.

I would not blame Walters if he decided to leave.  The Council will stick the taxpayers with the resulting bill.

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Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.
Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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  • "That’s pretty sad.
    “There is no place for Gringos in Santa Ana anymore”
    except for The City Manager, The City Staff, and all of the Property Owners!
    What is Santa Ana?
    Some Freeeekin Plantation or something?
    Some kind of White Man’s Animal Farm?"

    No Mateo..Santa Ana 20 years ago was like the British in India before the partisan but now Santa Ana is more like the Alamo with COMMLINK and our neighborhood leaders as the Texians and General Santanna and the Mexican troops played by our City Council and SACRED.

  • I forget what happened with the Alamo. Didn't it fall to the Mexicans, but then some how America got all of Texas anyway. Martyred White People and an Illegal treaty of Hidalgo or something like that?

    • The Texians lost the Alamo and Santa Anna murdered the survivors.

      Following the Alamo, at the Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican forces in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. About 630 of the Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured, while only 9 Texans died. This led to the Mex/Amer War and the treaty.

      • Didn't Santa Anna end up dressing up in drag in an effort to get away? And I recall something about a prosthetic leg that he wore, that somehow went missing when he was captured?

        Not sure. It has been a long time since I read these tales...

  • Masters of Distraction.
    This thread is about Chief Walters and the history of Plantation Santa Ana y Rancho Santiago
    not "Drunk Andy".

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