March 14, 2017 -- Arriving in Santa Monica in June 2015, City Manager Rick Cole pledged to provide transparency, connect with a community divided over crucial issues like development and use the innovation and practices of good governance for which he was already reputed.

“I found it outrageous that as one of his first moves as City Manager, Cole hired himself not one but five new PR people,” said Tricia Crane, a board member of Northeast Neighbors, a neighborhood association that Cole met and spoke with in January.

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