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I just got off the phone with City Manager Alan Tandy who let me know in no uncertain terms that he has the utmost respect for former Assistant Public Works Director Jacques LaRochelle. LaRochelle was honored at Wednesday night's council meeting after nearly 20 years service to the city. He's leaving to work in Napa. Tandy was furious with my previous post where I alluded that LaRochelle, who was instrumental in getting the Thomas roads money and was then tranfserred to the Water Resources Department, may not have been held in high esteem by Tandy. "I worked with Jacques LaRochelle, I like Jacque LaRochelle, I promoted Jacques LaRochelle," Tandy said. "I was trying to make him head of Water Resources!" He said he didn't praise LaRochelle at the meeting Wednesday night because there were so many other people waiting to speak on the Westpark alignment issue before the council. Tandy says I got the situation 180 degrees wrong. I'm very sorry if I misread the...
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