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Resident urges council to consider Palmdale forensic-audit notice and past employment issues in city manager deliberations
Summary
At a special Malibu City Council meeting on Aug. 18, 2025, public commenter Barbara Burke asked whether the council had considered a Palmdale forensic-audit request for proposals and the city of Palmdale’s non-renewal and family medical leave actions regarding the proposed city manager during council deliberations on extending the city manager contract.
Barbara Burke, a member of the public, used the Aug. 18 special meeting’s public-comment period to press the Malibu City Council to consider a series of allegations and outside actions as it deliberates the city manager contract.
Burke asked whether the council had “taken into account that the city of Palmdale has issued a request for proposals for a forensic audit in a time period that is concurrent with the service of the proposed city manager” and whether council members had considered that “the city of Palmdale did not renew her contract, and placed her on family medical leave,” and that “people have been expressing concerns that…she is recovering from an addiction concern.”
Her remarks were made immediately before the council…
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