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City Light CEO firing draws sustained public comment urging reinstatement
Summary
Multiple City Light employees, union representatives and longtime residents asked the council to intervene to retain (referred to in testimony as Don/Dawn Lindell), warning that leadership turnover jeopardizes infrastructure, ratepayers and ongoing capital projects.
Union representatives and City Light employees spoke at the Jan. 27 council meeting to protest the removal of the utility’s CEO and to ask the council to intervene.
“My members have been devastated by the news of mayors replacing the CEO of Seattle City Light, Don Lindell,” Steven Kovac, a business representative with IBEW Local 77, told the council. Kovac said the CEO…
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