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Mayor Brennan’s farewell: sustainability plan, staffing losses and allegations about PAC funds
Summary
Mayor Michael Dylan Brennan used his final report to summarize achievements — a near-complete sustainability plan and recycling savings — to list several staff departures, to call for zoning and facility work, and to allege that dissolved recall PAC funds were redirected to specific council members' campaigns, citing public PAC filings.
In his final mayoral report, Michael Dylan Brennan reflected on eight years in office, highlighted the city’s near-complete sustainability plan and a modernized recycling program that he said saved the city about $39,000 in processing fees and produced $3,200 in credits, and warned city leaders to prioritize streets, sidewalks and municipal facilities.
Brennan also named a string of staff departures in recent months and urged the city to take steps to retain talent. He said the city must consider new funding approaches to build facilities without undermining operating budgets and suggested the city use public investment — including public parking garages — to drive private development in targeted areas.
Brennan made a significant claim about campaign activity tied to a dissolved recall political action committee. "When the recall PAC moving University Heights forward was dissolved in March, the cash raised for my recall was funneled to the campaign committees of council members Michelle Weiss, Sherry Sachs, John Rock, and Win Weiser," he said, adding that the PAC reports are public records on file with the county board of elections. He also alleged an apparent $500 contribution limit violation in one instance involving two checks to Win Weiser and stated that the PAC treasurer and a council member "violated the $500 limit for PAC contributions under our city's campaign finance ordinance," as written in his remarks.
The transcript records the mayor’s allegation but contains no on-the-record response from the named council members during the meeting. The mayor said residents and the public record (PAC filings) are the sources for his statement.
Brennan concluded by designating a transition point person for the incoming mayor — Economic Development Director Tessa Jackson — and pledged to publish a transition memo. He also thanked long-serving staff and department heads by name for their service.
Next steps: The mayor indicated he will publish a transition memo and designated staff liaisons; allegations regarding PAC activity point to public filings that can be verified through county election records.
